#playing rogue trader

[halamshirals]

man...

[blackhelm-the-bardassassin]

[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.

[vancalox]

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.

[pierkyn]

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

[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!

[gingerfan24]

Me (almost) every time.

[halamshirals]

i need to study these freaks under a microscope

[pythosblathers]

Maris von Valancius, former Commissar of the Imperial Guard, currently not adjusting terribly well to having real political power. Confusing feelings about a particular unsanctioned psyker, you know how it is. Not pictured: She lost her whole body in the war(s) and is mostly augmetics from the chest down

Owlcat can't stop me from romancing Idira in my mind

[kirkwallguy]

if anyone's been wanting to try out some older bioware games or the owlcat crpgs, humble bundle is doing a massive sale.

£11 for both pathfinders and ALL the infinity engine bioware games. then £23 if you want rogue trader as well.

[vspin]

I think he likes me!

[clevermird]

I find it funny that in most other rpgs, Heinrix would be the bad-boy romance option (interrogation specialist for what amounts to the secret police), but here he's kinda one of the most normal options in the game

[fuzzy-set]

Um, it turns out that I can't stop thinking about his sacred stigmata...

[neonhellscape]

hes my oc now

[weirdtakoyaki]

Oh my god 😭