#rogue trader ttrpg

[shadrell]

Imagined how Pandora will look when I'll get enough exp to all augmentations I want. Also want Omnissiah's Power Axe sooo bad... but we have only 28 Profit Factor and we are at the edge of the world there hard to find anything 😭

Some little facts about my Explorator:

- She has a special mechadendrite for drinking recaff.

- Because of the electu on her face, she has almost no facial expressions. Many people consider her scary.

- You'll know Pandora is coming before you even see her, because her bad lung implant makes her breathe like Darth Vader.

- She is about 190 cm tall. I didn't count. (Actually I counted everyone's height in skitarii) But she is shorter than Magos Karl, who is 2 meters tall, and Magos Nitro, who is 130 cm tall, is up to her waist.

- She considers damaging the archeotech main engine a more serious offense than the attempt on her life.

- Lord-Captain has appointed her to the position of Enginseer Prime replacing Magos Karl and he is openly displeased with the situation. Pandora makes it a point to earn Magos Karl's respect.

[aylameridiandrawsstuff]

All my OC Seraphina art in one place!!

(ok, not all, but definitely most!)

I wrote some backstory stuff here if anyone is interested

[cakeinke]

boop she's done :3c Didn't feel like doing a color so did some painting then slapped a gradient map on her. Melisandre Ortellius, Navigator of house Ortellius.

[augustender]

I kinda disappeared after New Year, but to be fair I felt like ass and played a lot of DnD and other stuff. Digital art department is struggling rn so I got couple of pages from my sketchbook, so yeah!!

1 - Dnd stuff with my sheltered cleric Bruna (I miss her sm, her campaign is currently on pause until we finish our other one)

2 - Regina from my Rogue Trader PC Morgan's backstory, I can't awejdfjkfdg, this girl was such a girlfailure

3 - Stuff with Morgan, that man is just a failure with how my problems he causes on accident

4 - Danae and Johan, his parents, for whom I created the sweetest lovestory just to break it, because um, do NOT toy with psychic powers is a mother and son alike kinda situation (and stuff with Danae's siblings, love those guys :33)

[hotarutheconscience]

Selene is a walking ambition. Where will these ambitions take her? Good question. She is competent, but overly confident. She knows her worth. She is curious and proud. She is the daughter of an ancient navigator house. She... is scared of the prospect of mutating horribly.

And lonely.

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Tip jar

[katjapetersart]

Geli'ka splash art concept for the Rogue Trader ttrpg statblocks. Digitalized from a traditional sketch. Most rogue trader ttrpg bestiary has fully painted concept art we'll see if we ever get to that.

Cute little buddies! t'au search and rescue barding on the left, regular pet in the middle, and a rogue trader-owned imperium style barding on the right.

[inky-scrapyard]

Why did I find out too late that there was a livestream with the VAs???

..though all I retained from it was that

the marazhai romance is canon

..

and that his VA is as feral as the rest of us 💀

[scribblesscribblings]

Slowly cooking up the designs of the other players!

[possessedopossum]

Recent wh40k game gave me a lot of new feelings about my old characters, since rogue trader ttrpg was the exact thing that made me interested in the setting years ago. I even created a character who mirrored my original rogue trader in the worst ways possible! They are both crazy psykers who are always in the mood for some xeno heresy. But I'll draw new rt later. Now, it is time for a long awaited redesign.

[doodlitude]

Absolutely not heresy

[shadrell]

Some of my Explorator expiriense. Actually, there were more situations when she *looks disapprovingly* but these two are last of them.

And also Lord-Captain forced my magos to search for a hidden message from the rebels. On two data-slates with porn. It was only on one data-slate. She got one point of madness.

[aylameridiandrawsstuff]

Top: Interface (the crew's experience)

Bottom: Noosphere (the Tech-Priest's experience)

The crew of the Null Exception were "asked" by an Inquisitor to investigate the palatial compound of a supposedly heretical Arch-Medicus. Upon arriving on the disturbingly foggy grounds, the Tech Priest found a cogitator embedded in a statue with which to interface - hopefully to gain some information on the layout, however what she found was somewhat less useful much more heretical..... 

The seemingly ordinary cogitator actually hid a rather advanced (and super illegal) ancient AI! Our Tech-Priest, not one to shy away from archeotech, happily communed with the ancient machine spirit, who we learned had suffered some major memory and personality issues after having been split up into its component subroutines... And so we added "restoring the ancient AI's personality" to our ever growing to do list for our visit to the heretic's palace...

[cakeinke]

Making a navigator for a new TTRPG Rogue trader run. She got membrane growths and frog eyes. :3c

[augustender]

Quick sketch of Morgan, someone got a new set of teeth for a low price of couple Insanity points, lmao

(fuck, just realised what was missing - all of the little facial scars)

[parchmentleaves]

Lady Essiala Ariathia ban Vor'cle

No game this week, so a brief entry about Lady Essiala instead. Who is the lady behind this journal? Linked above or copy-pasted below.

Lady Essiala Ariathia Sorjiik den Morgenstern ban Vor’cle is the Navigator Primaris of the void-ship Gloriosa Lux Misericordiae Imperialis, a role she has held for just over a standard decade. She is a bookish and reserved woman who prefers the solitude of her library to the hubbub of human interactions, and uses her noble bearing as a mask to conceal her terrors and inner loneliness.

Child of Vor’cle

Essiala is a scion of House Vor’cle, an ancient and vaunted House of the Navis Nobilite that eschews sector and planetary politics in favour of broad-ranging interests and connections throughout the Imperium of Man, including at the very heights of power. Vor’cle Navigators guide ships of nobility, adepta of the mighty Adeptus Terra, Rogue Traders, and even the dreaded Inquisition. The House maintains its own fleet of void-clippers – fast courier voidcraft that crisscross Sectors, Segmenta and even the Imperium itself bearing information too dense, complex or secure to risk astropathic communication, as well as individuals wishing swift and unobtrusive transport across the stars.

She was born on one of these void-clippers, the lean and ancient Morgenstern, and is a child of an esteemed and stable gene-lineage that has been free of genomic instability for over a millenium. Children of the Sorjiik lineage tend to a greater height, leanness of build and paleness of skin than even most void-born, with many also possessing entirely black eyes well-suited to finding even the fainest of lights in the darkness of the void. Essiala shows all these traits and, like many children of her line, prefers her quarters set to lower local gravity and dimmer lumination than ship standard.

House Vor’cle is less hidebound than many great magisterial Houses of the Navis Nobilite who might rely on their breeding and connections to secure contracts of navigation. The Vor’cle instead educate their scions and inculcate a deep curiosity about the universe into them. They in turn record everything that they encounter on their long-ranging travels across and beyond the Imperium and send their reports back to the House archives, where they may be used to further the obectives of the House and its allies. This cavalier disregard for the virtue of ignorance has led to multiple long term feuds between the House and factions of the Ecclesiarchy.

Dark Apprenticeship

Decades of scholarship and apprenticeship taught Essiala well the lessons of her House. She served as a Navigatrix Tertius and learned the practicalities of navigation aboard multiple ships with distinction and no issue save for a short-lived daliance with a bright-eyed void-mistress that ended when Essiala ascended to the rank of Navigatrix Secundus and was assigned to the void-ship Revenance.

Her years aboard the Revenance took her into the Halo Stars beyond the frontiers of the Imperium. She saw strange aetheric phenomena and curious alien ruins, decimated remnants of fallen civilisations far older than that of Man, and steered the ship through terrible warp storms to find safe refuge in the light of the Astronomicon once more. An incident occured on one voyage where she had the honour of steering the ship while the Navigator Primaris was recovering from injuries following a skirmish with Orkish pirates. The ship’s Gellar field, likely suffering some minor damage in the prior engagement, fluctuated during a turbulent ana-surge within the Immaterium and something attempted to coalesce through the cracks into the Navis spire.

A shapeless darkness with a voice of ash and burning violet eyes appeared on before Essiala and begged for her to open disable the safeties on the Aciens Horrens, the heavily warded portal through which the Navigator views the Immaterium, and allow it inside. It offered power, knowledge, all the sweet temptations fit to lure her into obeying its pleas. She refused and, in a moment of righteous anger, tried to turn the power of her Third Eye on the blasphemous thing. The entity simply laughed in amusement and departed, leaving her with words.

“Such fire you have. And such fires you will see Beyond. Three and three and all will burn as bright as you. May they consume you by delightful degrees.”

Essiala found herself marked and shaken by this dreadful encounter. All food tastes of ash in her mouth and her dreams echo with the three-eyed entities mocking laughter. In response she threw herself into studying all she could find about such blasphemous foes, so that she might face and destroy the entity if she encountered it once more. And to this day she takes great care to maintain a personal shrine to the Emperor in her quarters, praying to Him on Earth and all His Saints each morning after a night of fitful, restless sleep.

Navigator of the Gloriosa Lux

The incident on the Revenance earned Essiala her elevation to the rank of full Navigatrix, after sufficient psychoexamination and deep testing to ensure that the entity had left no taint upon her soul. She was assigned to fulfil House Vor’cle’s contract of navigation with the Void-ghast Dynasty, an ancient rogue trader family now fallen from the heights of their past glories, and she assumed the duties of Navigator Primaris aboard the Void-ghast’s only true void-ship, the Sword-class frigate Gloriosa Lux Misericordiae Imperialis.

Lady Essiala worked well with the Gloriosa Lux and her Lord-Captain Eleazar Void-ghast, steering the vessel on nearly a dozen expeditions into into the wild space of the Koronus Expanse and bringing her home safely each time. Each voyage brought new wonders and new terrors, and always the subtlest hints of some meaning behind the words and the sinister laughter haunting her nightmares.

Lord Eleazar’s sudden and unexpected death upended everything. Gloriosa Lux was forced to return to anchorage, spending nearly a year in limbo waiting for the heir to the Dynasty, the Writ of Trade, and the Lord-Captaincy to be found. Essiala spent the time reading, writing notes for future memoirs, and attempting to make sense of her dreams. She could feel a pattern forming, though it was still too diffuse and subtle to fully grasp.

Finally, after interminable politics and delays of transit, Lazarus Void-ghast was declared Lord of the Dynasty and the Gloriosa Lux Misericordiae Imperialis has set sail once more into the Koronus Expanse…

[katjapetersart]

Okay one last geli'ka post.

I have an aquaintance who plays Rogue Trader: TTRPG. His character, Lord Captain Sparrovian, has adopted a Geli'ka. Character belongs to doctorgromov.