#playing rogue trader

[halamshirals]

man...

[blackhelm-the-bardassassin]

[hellafluff]

RPGs will be like. Okay, here's the the most beautiful portrait of a character we could render. And here's the goofiest fucking 3D character model you've ever seen.

[avalost]

The fact that the game tells you "hey, you can hover over highlighted words to learn more about them" and then this is the first highlighted entry it gives you - that's wild. This is peak storytelling. It immediately sets up the precedent that not everything you will be told is the truth. That's fantastic. What do you mean. What else are you not telling me

[namespara]

Hey guys my iconoclast rogue trader who wants to save everyone and tries so hard to be good fell in love with the guy who has to kill and maim people to literally survive !

This game is ridiculously well written and this line (during that last murder march with marazhai) really kicks you in the balls. The whole exchange of "i did it to be closer to you" was amazing and exactly what my rt felt

[alnat-art]

Forgive me, Emperor, for I am about to sin 🥵

[iedistis]

We're so back

[wifihunters]

40k but doin holy car jumper this time !!

[nylloth]

ohhhh my friend gave me art with my RT and Marazhai as a gift 🥺

It's because I talk about him too much. I think I've accidentally "sold" the game to 5-6 strangers and my friends because I talk about Marzipan too much and constantly post videos on youtube that people usually comment on like this:

After finishing the game I can say that Mara:

Is well written with lore knowledge in mind

he doesn't have a redemption arc (BLESS OWLCAT).

he has an amazing VA. this is not empty praise, people unfamiliar with the character go crazy for the voice. it's real. especially when you don't expect it.

his romance is a logical conclusion and it's a completely adult story that doesn't indulge the player's desires

My biggest sin is that if I like something, I talk about it forever. I just can't shut up. But look I got art for it! That's the first time something good has happened because of it.

[halamshirals]

i need to study these freaks under a microscope

[rosykims]

i genuinely love love love the iconoclast path in rogue trader SO MUCH. its one of the things that ultimately enamors me to the warhammer franchise as a whole despite empathy being so antithetical to its world and genre. its not just because iconoclast is the Nice Person route or because it subverts the foundational principle that In The Grim Dark Universe There Is Only War............ but mostly i love it because its the best way to actually engage w the morality system presented in 40k and explore it the way it deserves to be explored. its so unique parsing through the choices of the game and navigating how one might actually ACHIEVE goodness through - or more accurately without - the lens of liberal modern morality. because adhering to what we presently would call morality is arguably crueler than some of the dogmatic choices - or at least the game wants you to reflect on that and decide if that kind of morality still has value or not. and i like that they give you the opportunity to do that. youre rarely rewarded for kindness in this game and in fact your oftentimes actively punished for it (void shadows was a TRIAL for my iconoclast rt) which presents another question: are you being good because of a reward you believe you'lll be entitled to, or are you being good for the sake of goodness itself??? in saying that i do LOVE how there IS payoff in the iconoclast route eventually - when youve bleed and suffered for it enough. but theres a quality to it thats so..... so BITTERSWEET, because yippee you Empathed your way to the top - but also what IS the top?? congratulations, you are the kindest autocrat in the most bloodthirsty fascist regime in human history, sitting on your throne on a voidship run by all your slaves and serfs who die by the hundreds every time you make a warpjump for some dumbass sidequest. what the fuck. can you actually call that goodness ????? is whatever goodness-adjacent thing youve achieved worth it even if you cant change the system in the ways that matter ??? lastly - the iconoclast ending is both so wildly universe-altering to the point of feeling like a heretical ending - but also kind of. not mattering really lol. because even though its hopeful, the "good" ending still feels soooo tentative with the likelihood that its very likely not going to last. but that in itself is my favorite take away from playing this game as The Last Good Guy in the Galaxy: because the love DIDNT change anything. and it DOESNT save anyone. but ohhhhhhhhh my fucking god does it absolutely matter that it was there.

[epiclad]

The things I put myself through so I can play Rogue Trader with zero regret. Kyra, former guardsman of the Astra Militarum, now granted special trade permits by the Imperium after serving her time dutifully aboard the Mourningstar. Process vid!

[gautiersylvain]

my good friends jae and heinrix are the funniest people i know

[pierkyn]

WH40K: Rogue Trader (Void Shadows DLC) - Astropathic Choir

[veneratedrot]

magnitude 5 yurricane but I project onto cassia

[justasmolweebean]