Comments on: (Possibly) Make Your Rogue Trader Character Absolutely Ridiculous

By: B Rockwell

B Rockwell — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:03:46 +0000

This is true. Even before I read this I used mutations to get hideous strength mixed with feel no pain on an archmilitant who specialized on melee and power fists

By: Lyrann

Lyrann — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:19:18 +0000

Wow – reading posts like this really makes me want to krush players who try this. You go ahead and optimize… and you’ll wish you never did. Unless this is something that comes about thru chance, choosing such a character build is asking for failure in my book. You limit yourself to the role of ‘meat’. Oh well – I’m thankful I don’t have players with the ‘munchkin’ mindset in my group. And when I go to a Con and see all of them – I just cringe and skit away. Heretic Begone!

By: Phafin

Phafin — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:51:13 +0000

Playing chars like this can be really difficult, I’m a long time rifts player and have seen ALOT of munchkinism, and alot of munchkinism played really well! having a slobbering kappering doubble lettering psycho on your side can be great, but if you have a good gm then they will not be able to walk down the street or enter any normal convo. sort of limits their use. Probably why navigators never leave the ship!

By: Christopher Pye

Christopher Pye — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:44:46 +0000

Now that… that is extra-heretical.

By: CloudAran

CloudAran — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:27:01 +0000

Yeah, I made a mutant Navigator and bought Ravaged Body (200xp). When I happened to roll Ravaged Body on my first roll, my GM let me get 1d5 more for that 1. End result: 7 mutations there, 2 from Renegade house Navigator. I am a beast (including 12 AGI bonus and STR bonus)! I don’t remember all of them atm, but here’s the list of what I can recall:

- Shadowkin (GM wouldn’t let me be ethereal, but I get everything else except the ability to phase through things and the immunity to damage, just can’t attack while in it. Good way to avoid being purged!)
- Fear(3) (this makes RP difficult, this might be getting replaced, but it’s hilarious currently)
- Brute, Abberation (think that’s what it’s called) and the mutations that give unnatural AGI and STR.
- Nav. Mutation that gives darksight
- Wyrdling (got TK weapon, use with a metal staff to make a TK scythe, yes I’ve basically become a Dark Templar from Starcraft)

Most of the mutations I can’t recall right now just augmented my stats. The most notable are up there (and ridiculous!).

By: Dovre

Dovre — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:28:01 +0000

I can never see this getting erratád since Ravaged Body makes all of the mutations seen as the corruption it is, wyrdling would likely be shown as crackles of pscychic powers from ya head or something XP….purge the mutant ^o^

By: Christopher Pye

Christopher Pye — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:45:26 +0000

I’m thinking the same thing. After posting this, I started rolling up a new character (for the hell of it), and Tainted came up. I chose Ravaged Body, and… well, it’s nuts. Now I’ve got a Void Master with 57 Strength and 50 Agility (that’s before any advances are taken, too), two psychic techniques, Fear (1), Unnatural Strength, Frenzy, and more. It takes an unbelievable amount of good luck, but when it works out it’s insane.

So yeah, I can really see this getting errata’d.

By: Hammer

Hammer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:40:40 +0000

My group’s Astropath used that very talent to get access to an extra Psypower level and a few more abilities. Very nice use of it, because it makes him much more useful in combat.

We did discuss the possibility of taking 6 mutations, but given that it’s potentially game-breaking we reckoned it would be a bit too over the top. I suspect that there may be something about this mentioned in the Errata.
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