Hitting the Machine Spirits Hard - A Rogue Trader Actual Play

By Grey Hunter, in Rogue Trader

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Hi There.

My group and I are coming to the end of a playthrough of Rogue Trader, and I've been recording all of the episodes. I create MP3's and also record the virtual table top we use - Fantasy Grounds.

We started this over at the Something Awful forums, but I think I may as well post this here as well.

We're a little ropey to begin with, as we have never really played the ruleset or even together before, but I hope that people will enjoy our sessions. (Yes we are rubbish with the rules, but I never let that stop me before.

I give you the endevours of the Bashura Dynasty.

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MP3's

Session 1 - Setting the scene.
Session 2 - Pirates!
Session 3 - Terrible Rolls
Session 4 - The New Navigator
Session 5 - 240 days of Partying!
Session 6 - I said hang in there!
Session 7 - A Brave New World
Session 8 - Everything Sucks!
Session 9 - Where did the captain go?
Session 10 - Can I reprogram him?
Session 11 - Sweet Kommandant
Session 12 - Open Heart Surgery Session 1
Session 13 - The Kid Gloves come off!
Session 14 - A Slight Detour
Session 15 - Sand in the Cracks
Session 16 - Bar Room Brawl
Session 17 - Zurzen Strikes Back!
Session 18 - Do Techpriests dream of electric sheep?
Session 19 - I'm going to Terrify them!
Session 20 - Xenocide
Session 21 - That's one angry R2 Unit!
Session 22 - Trouble on Bleka
Session 23 - Screwing with the locals
Session 24 - The Ate %
Session 25 - The Trouble with Techpriests
Session 26 - Lets go to war!
Session 27 - The best torpedo room crews in the universe
Session 28 - Assault on Terra Nova
Session 29 - That warpstorm is following us!
Session 30 - The Tomb of Cicero
Session 31 - Bash's Birthday Bashura
Session 32 - On the Offensive
Session 33 - A Chaotic Counter Attack
Session 34 - Friends
Session 35 - We can Take Them.
Session 36 - A little revenge
Session 37 - Everyone expects the Imperial Inquisition.
Session 38 - The Forbidden Planet
Session 39 - Beneath the Forbidden Planet
Session 40 - Into the Well.
Session 41 - Into the Fire
Session 42 - We're in a nebula of WHAT?
Session 43 - The true name of Trust


Videos

Session 1
Part 1 - Character Introduction.
Part 2 – Ship Creation
Part 3 – Ship naming & acquisition rolls– Innuendo Station.
Part 4 – game play starts – Wandering in for Work

Session 2
Part 1 - Anything To Declare?
Part 2 - We need a better Navigator!
Part 3 - Pirates!
Part 4 - Polly want a Fire extinguisher!

Session 3
Part 1 - To Lucians Breath
Part 2 - Negotiations
Part 3 - GREEEEY!
Part 4 - A show of Bravery!
Part 5 - Daddy Dreadist

Session 4
Part 1 - The Quest for Power Armour
Part 2 - Lets go Exploring!
Part 3 - That looks weird...
Part 4 - Gunboat Diplomacy
Part 5 - A hit! a very palpable hit!

Session 5
Part 1 - Xenos Management
Part 2 - 240 day party, for some...
Part 3 - Sinister Ships Ahead.
Part 4 Unwanted Meetings
Part 5 Proof of Ownership

Session 6
Part 1 - Hang In There I Said!
Part 2 - Blind Mans Bluff.
Part 3 - Hot Astropath on Astropath Action.
Part 4 - Walking Talking Keg
Part 5 - Next Week - The Eye of Terror!

Session 7
Part 1 - Lets torture the Bejeezus out of him!
Part 2 Surprise Surprise!
Part 3 - you want us to name it?
Part 4 - Did we just found Nazi Germany?

Session 8
Part 1 - Everything Sucks.
Part 2 - Everything Sucks, Electric Buggaloo
Part 3 - Everything Sucks - A No Hope
Part 4 - Everything Sucks - The Suck Strikes Back
Part 5 - Everything Sucks - The Return of the Suck

Session 9
Part 1 - Where did the captain go?
Part 2 - Oh god, here we go again!
Part 3 - One for One
Part 4 - Who let the Murder Servitors out?
Part 5 - Orvarian Cancer.

Session 10
Part 1 - Can I reprogram him?
Part 2 - Locked in a Room and Everyone is smiling.
Part 3 - Does anyone have any social skills?
Part 4 - The Regency Council
Part 5 - A nine year old with a chainsword

Session 11
Part 1 - To Space Australia!
Part 2 - Message Relay
Part 3 - Plotting and Planning.
Part 4 - Sweet Kommandant
Part 5 - Into Action!
Part 6 - Painting the walls Red!
Part 7 - Did you lot just accomplish something?

Session 12

Part 1 - Open Heart Surgery for all!
Part 2 - I'm a good Sewer!
Part 3 - Oh! Its my eyes I'd be cutting out!
Part 4 - Space Hugs and Snozzberrys
Part 5 - What Ho Chaps!


Session 13
Part 1 - Lets go Explore!
Part 2 - A Palpable hit! Again....
Part 3 - Plink plink plink...
Part 4 - Running rings round them.
Part 5 - Unexpected Help

Session 14
Part 1 - Railroad time!
Part 2 - Getting Schooled by a nien year old
Part 3 - A nice, relaxing formal meal.
Part 4 - Don't Move!
Part 5- Run Away!

Session 15
Part 1 - To the Libarium!
Part 2 - This is not a pleasure world.
Part 3 - A nice refreshing sandbath.
Part 4 - The Art of Diplomacy.
Part 5 - Scratching the paintwork.
Part 6 - Out of the sandstorm and into the fire.

Session 16
Part 1 - The Search for the Holy watchmacallit
Part 2 - Disco Stu, the dancing Ogryn!
Part 3 - Trust on the warpath.
Part 4 - Bragging rights.
Part 5 - Oh! where did you get that loverly armour?

Session 17
Part 1 - Didn't we have two ships here?
Part 2 - Oh Well, Here we go again.
Part 3 - Fire, loverly Loverly fire!
Part 4 - I want that ship!
Part 5 - Cleaning up.

Session 18
Part 1 - Do Techpriests dream of electric sheep?
Part 2 - Aggressive aging.
Part 3 - Lets Make Friends!
Part 4 - Another bar, another bar fight.
Part 5 - So Many Plans.

Session 19
Part 1 - Seb! No bashing the Bishop!
Part 2 - So, How do we do this?
Part 3 - Oh! that is real!
Part 4 - I'm going to terrify them!
Part 5 - We're Watching You.

Session 20
Part 1 - We need to get out of dodge.
Part 2 - Lets abduct some aliens!
Part 3 - Dividing up the victims.
Part 4 - Destroying the Defender.
Part 5 - Xenocide!

Session 21
Part 1 - Home Improvements
Part 2 - Wrong Turn.
Part 3 - A quick diversion
Part 4 - The gravity of the situation
Part 5 - Binary Code.
Part 6 - Lets get out of here!

Session 22
Part 1 - A Minor Mishap
Part 2 - Thats My Gun!
Part 3 - Riot Control, 40k style.
Part 4 - Splort
Part 5 - Screaming down the corridors
Part 6 - Friendly FIRE!

Session 23
Part 1 - So many places to visit, all of them bad.
Part 2 - Unwanted visitor.
Part 3 - Who do we elevate?
Part 4 - Diplomatic Relations

Session 24
Part 1 - This is why you lot don't stay in one place too long.
Part 2 - Space Elves Attack!
Part 3 - Are they boarding us?
Part 4 - The Bodyguard
Part 5 - the Ate %

Session 25
Part 1 - Setting up the meet
Part 2 - Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Part 3 - To the Teleportarium!
Part 4 - Hard Choices

Session 26
Part 1 - Ghosts in the Life Support.
Part 2 - We're looking for a few thousands good men
Part 3 - Off to War
Part 4 - Engaging the Enemy
Part 5 - Space Tactics 101

Session 27
Part 1 - The Epic Battle continues!
Part 2 - Can you destroy that ship so we can ignore it some more?
Part 3 - The greatest torpedo room crews in the universe
Part 4 - My Dice are in the wrong order
Part 5 - A bite to eat on the bridge.

Session 28
Part 1 - Begin the Landings!
Part 2 Supporting Speeches

Session 29
Part 1 - Repair and Refit
Part 2 - Open heart Surgery Part 2
Part 3 - Messing with the canon
Part 4 - Increasingly Wealthy
Part 5 - Warpfun

Session 30
Take up your best Anime stance
Trusts Last Name
The Professor Loses it
Dead Again
Part 5 Grey is back in the drivers seat

Session 31
Part 1 - This is what happens when I spend XP!
Part 2 - Lets get ready to party!
Part - 3 Bash's Birthday Bashura
Part 4 - Clearing the Dance Floor
Part 5 - Passed out on the floor - Birthday Goal Complete

Session 32
Part 1 - Ugly as Sin
Part 2 - Major refit
Part 3 - My toes are made of Cheese!
Part 4 - I've always wanted to do a Colony Drop!
Part 5 - A New Threat

Session 33
Part 1 - Surprise Attack!
Part 2 - Surprise Counter Attack!
Part 3 - Critical Personnel Mass
Part 4 - Clearing Space
Part 5 - It's a Space Marine

Session 34
Part 1 - Collecting New Friends
Part 2 - I hit it with my Tennis Racket
Part 3 - Old Friends
Part 4 - Powerful Friends

Session 35
Part 1 - We can take them!
Part 2 - Actually, there are several ways out.
Part 3 - Burny McBurny
Part 4 - My Poor Ship
Part 5 - Growing threats

Session 36
Part 1 - Reporting in.
Part 2 - You Again.
Part 3 - Heading out for some revenge.
Part 4 - Please don't tell on us.

Session 37
Part 1 - The Inquisitor
Part 2 - All of your mistakes highlighted
Part 3 - Dangerous, or Suicidal?


Session 38
Part 1 - We are not alone
Part 2 - Skullcracker
Part 3 - Mutant Smackdown
Part 4 - Worried yet?
Part 5 - Take Cover!
Part 6 - Target Aquired

Session 39
Part 1 - Planetfall
Part 2 - My Pieces!
Part 3 - Underground
Part 4 - The Gravity of the situation
Part 5 - He's trying to kill us!

Session 40
Part 1 - **** Cyber Pigeons
Part 2 - We don't Want to do this!
Part 3 - Through the Well
Part 4 - Grey's New Tactic

Session 41
Part 1 - The Chase Sequence
Part 2 - Boarding Action
Part 3 - Freaking Out
Part 4 - Fire Fight
Part 5 - The Revelation of stats

Session 42
Part 1 - Biker Traders from Belka
Part 2 - Planning the Plan
Part 3 - We're in a nebula of WHAT?

Awesome series, would love to know what that program is you are running the game with.

Hi! I'm one of the players from later on into the series- I joined the game at session 25 as Trosk, a kroot Shaper. We're using Fantasy Grounds II to run the game, off of the Dark Heresy ruleset. Obviously, we have to fudge some things, but the aesthetic and character sheets are close enough that it's quite workable.

This was a great series, I hope yall decide to play again with Rogue Trader or any other 40k rpg. May the Emperor watch over you all.

This was a great series, I hope yall decide to play again with Rogue Trader or any other 40k rpg. May the Emperor watch over you all.

Actually, we just finished recording the last proper session. Check out Grey's youtube channel for the stuff not listed here.