117. Rogue Trader Part 1

One Shot

James D'Amato

Games, Comedy, Leisure

4.8 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2015

⏱️ 88 minutes

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40,000 years after the start of common era (which also happens to coincide with certain religious events) and several hundred million years before the events of Numenera, the galaxy is torn by war. Humanity is lead by an immortal god king kept living by eating 1,000 psychics a day. The universe is full of hostile alien life, strife, and cultural stagnation. Thorough out man's corrupt imperium perhaps there is no group more wicked, more callously focused on personal gain, than the crew of The Golden Corral. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week's episode of One Shot is brought to you by the Iron Galaxy.
0:04.0	Scream Like a School kid with the new Capsil Force Intergalactic Retro anime multiplayer game
0:09.6	available now on PS4 and Steam. Check out more at capsuleforce.com. We are venturing. Hello heroes.
0:26.0	Hello Heroes and welcome to another exciting episode of One Shot.
0:30.0	I'm James Damato, your Game Master.
0:33.4	This week we finally do something people have been asking us to do for ages,
0:37.3	and that's take a trip in the Warhammer 40K universe.
0:40.8	Warhammer isn't one of the gaming franchises that I grew up with and John Patrick Cohen, our game
0:45.9	master for this week, does an excellent job explaining it.
0:49.5	We used Fantasy Flight's Rogue Trader System.
0:52.6	Now the one thing I do know about Warhammer
0:54.8	is that it is a grossly punishing and brutal universe.
0:59.0	The one thing that I can say for Fantasy Flight's
1:01.2	percentile-based skill system is that it is most certainly in line
1:05.2	with the lethality of Warhammer 40k.
1:08.1	Even the skills my character was best at, he wasn't that great at.
1:12.2	I only had one skill above 50 percent.
1:14.8	Thankfully that was my combat skill. I don't want to go on too much more about
1:18.7	because there is a lot of fun and surprise in the scenario that JPC put together for us.
1:23.7	I also want to thank Brad Pike for stepping in last minute.
1:26.8	Alex Manich was originally planned to be in this adventure, however he got sick and was not able
1:31.7	to speak during the time we recorded.
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