playable mutant

By Void_onion213, in Rogue Trader

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Dustmop said:

So, how would one run my RT. Before rolling everything, my concept was a RT from the Inquisition. Basically, an Inquisitor who'd been 'kicked out' onto a Warrant of Trade. That was before I rolled all five of those mutations above, and ended up with 80 strength, 16 wounds, a psy rating and flight etc. How exactly would that be explained away? Aren't RT's supposed to be charismatic? so far, all i can figure is that i'm a 7ft+ tall, hulking human (space marine esque . . . without the power armor and fun 'enhancements') with a boatload of fellowship (Fel 50) that can just about 'hulk smash' most things. Only idea i've come up with is the 'i worked for the inquisition on a 'black ship' untill something went awry, leaving me mutated. After about 5 years of inquiry, I was sanctioned as a psyker (but had a mental block put on it to stop the expansion of power) and as a mutant. ' . . . was thinking on using Angel wings as the basis of my 'flight' ability and that the Emperor showed his kindness.

Still, how would you RP with this char? . . . I just find him an odd enigma with lots of questions that beg answers.

How the warp does he have a Strength of 80? Sure, +10 from hulking, sure you might have max starting strength of 50 (30+2D10) and you might even buy two strength increases (for +10) and have a strength of 70.

Yhmmm, nevermind. I guess if I missed a step or two then you could have a strenght of 80 to start, expecially if you are on the characteristic points system.

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I'd run him as just slightly crazy (like all the best Rogue Traders are).

Believes he's Sanguineous reborn, or chosen, or whatever. Due to his high charisma and superhuman abilities most of his crew believes it. In fact, he is able to convince many of the peasants he meets of it too. Perhaps his reputation precedes him, and he is reguarded as a living saint by the masses of the Koronos Expanse. (buy the trait "warrant of renown" to simulate this).

Be "virtuous", devoted to the emperor, with the rage of an arch-angel.

Focus on your "mission", whatever you decide that to be. You're not after money, it is merely a means to an end. What is that end? Taming the entire Koronos expanse? Killing every demon there? Perhaps you had a vision of a Demon Prince pulling the strings there, and it is your destiny to root him out, reveal him to the world, and cast him down? Or a lost artifact of Sanguinious (his sword?) that it is your destiny to retrieve.

In your interactions with new groups of humans focus on the dramatic. Perform "miracles". Create rain on deasert worlds, bring hellfire down from the sky on your enemies, perform feats of strength.

Finally, you need to look the part. Find yourself some of that golden, or blood red, best craftmanship power armor. Ohhh, yeahhh. Try to make all of your equipment best craftmanship, even if you need to occationally burn a PF to do it.

Trust me, you have the opportunity to make a truly grand and character in a game that encourages such things. Do it.

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Peacekeeper_b said:

Dustmop said:

So, how would one run my RT. Before rolling everything, my concept was a RT from the Inquisition. Basically, an Inquisitor who'd been 'kicked out' onto a Warrant of Trade. That was before I rolled all five of those mutations above, and ended up with 80 strength, 16 wounds, a psy rating and flight etc. How exactly would that be explained away? Aren't RT's supposed to be charismatic? so far, all i can figure is that i'm a 7ft+ tall, hulking human (space marine esque . . . without the power armor and fun 'enhancements') with a boatload of fellowship (Fel 50) that can just about 'hulk smash' most things. Only idea i've come up with is the 'i worked for the inquisition on a 'black ship' untill something went awry, leaving me mutated. After about 5 years of inquiry, I was sanctioned as a psyker (but had a mental block put on it to stop the expansion of power) and as a mutant. ' . . . was thinking on using Angel wings as the basis of my 'flight' ability and that the Emperor showed his kindness.

Still, how would you RP with this char? . . . I just find him an odd enigma with lots of questions that beg answers.

How the warp does he have a Strength of 80? Sure, +10 from hulking, sure you might have max starting strength of 50 (30+2D10) and you might even buy two strength increases (for +10) and have a strength of 70.

Yhmmm, nevermind. I guess if I missed a step or two then you could have a strenght of 80 to start, expecially if you are on the characteristic points system.

Started out with a strength of 40 (20 starting + 2d10 (10)+10 from hulking = 40), then got the mutation that gives you unnatural strength, which, if i read it right, doubles the strength 'bonus' number, which would double the 4, making a total of 80. the mutations i have are: flyer, hulking, feels no pain, wyrdling (telekinesis), and the unnatural strength one. i may have misread things. still, a rather confuzzled character.

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Dustmop said:

Peacekeeper_b said:

Dustmop said:

So, how would one run my RT. Before rolling everything, my concept was a RT from the Inquisition. Basically, an Inquisitor who'd been 'kicked out' onto a Warrant of Trade. That was before I rolled all five of those mutations above, and ended up with 80 strength, 16 wounds, a psy rating and flight etc. How exactly would that be explained away? Aren't RT's supposed to be charismatic? so far, all i can figure is that i'm a 7ft+ tall, hulking human (space marine esque . . . without the power armor and fun 'enhancements') with a boatload of fellowship (Fel 50) that can just about 'hulk smash' most things. Only idea i've come up with is the 'i worked for the inquisition on a 'black ship' untill something went awry, leaving me mutated. After about 5 years of inquiry, I was sanctioned as a psyker (but had a mental block put on it to stop the expansion of power) and as a mutant. ' . . . was thinking on using Angel wings as the basis of my 'flight' ability and that the Emperor showed his kindness.

Still, how would you RP with this char? . . . I just find him an odd enigma with lots of questions that beg answers.

How the warp does he have a Strength of 80? Sure, +10 from hulking, sure you might have max starting strength of 50 (30+2D10) and you might even buy two strength increases (for +10) and have a strength of 70.

Yhmmm, nevermind. I guess if I missed a step or two then you could have a strenght of 80 to start, expecially if you are on the characteristic points system.

Started out with a strength of 40 (20 starting + 2d10 (10)+10 from hulking = 40), then got the mutation that gives you unnatural strength, which, if i read it right, doubles the strength 'bonus' number, which would double the 4, making a total of 80. the mutations i have are: flyer, hulking, feels no pain, wyrdling (telekinesis), and the unnatural strength one. i may have misread things. still, a rather confuzzled character.

Nope. Doubles the strength bonus to 8, but the stat remains 40.

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HappyDaze said:

The Chem Geld idea might work for some, but generally any population growth is still a useful asset to the IoM. Mutant labor and 'expendibles' have to come from somewhere, and having mutant populations is a benefit for most members of Imperial society because they know there is always someone less fortunate than themselves. The continued existence of these sub-humans is just too useful to the IoM to give up, and in regard to the mutant, the IoM is considerably more pragmatic in practice than what might be inferred from the radical anti-mutant slogans it throws around.

I didn't envsion it as something applied to each and every mutants, but as part and parcel of the process granting a mutant the right to interact with the Imperium's 'normal' osciiety - in a somewhat similat fashion to sanctionned psykers and xenos.

As long as a mutant is crwaling in the Imperium's unbderbelly, well, it doesn't matter much if he desacrate the human genome by breeding with some underhive scum. But one wouldn't expose more upscale lineage to the same risks, anf the easiest solution is to make sure that even if that mutant manage to vreeo into some bed he shouldn't, no polluted genes will spread out as a result.