Curious about rogue trader

I've been curious about the Warhammer 40k games lately. Anyone have any experience running this? Is it any good? Is the system complicated? I'm kind of intimidated

Which ones? I think they're all a bit interesting. Played in a one shot to determine our annual campaign. Most didn't like progress cost and branching for dark heresy.

Rogue trader specifically

Rogue Trader the FFG RPG?

Like the rest of the Wh40k RPGs, it's crunch as heck, especially with the extra expansions. However, it's probably got the most class diversity out of any of the other 40k RPGs, as it allows for you to play as Dark Eldar or Tau characters with their appropriate tech, plus the rules for customizing your vessel are really cool.

Ugh, I was just reading Dark Herasy today...now I'm interested in Rogue Trader too, but I'm so loaded up with games....

The percentile system for skills does seem uber crunch...but at the same time it's not as confusing to me as Shadowrun still is. I finally just learned how to shoot someone in that game. Probably still did it wrong.

Playing a WH40K RPG has been something I've wanted to do for a very long time (as a long-time fan of the games). However, I don't have the rulebook and it seems as if you really would need one for these games. One of these days I'll get the system.

just curious if anyone has played it. maybe one day it'll be run on this site (probably not by me, I don't knows squat about the lore) after some of us drop a few games.

I've played a bit of Dark Heresy, but never Rogue Trader or Death Watch (I kinda wanna try Death Watch...)

Death Watch is on the other end of the spectrum from Only War. One you're a guardmen and death seems pretty easy, the other the party is sent on a suicide mission to defend a planet for the most part on their own but they're like the 0.001% of Spacemarines across different chapters...

Ugh, you know I'm going to have to run this. Since I'm on the demo team for FFG now there is always the possibility of working other events, so knowing their core three systems is something I need to do for more availability to help with events. I know Star Wars and End of the Workd well enough, WH40K is the new white whale.

Honestly though if I can stumble through character creation for Shadowrun, I think I can figure or anything. :)

Hopefully you don't get stuck with Anima or trying to make a flexbot/multiple body for Eclipse Phase (they're the most broken).

Alright, jerks. I'm going to start reading the Rogue Trader corebook. I'm overrun with games for now, but I think a few should be wrapping soon, so that will give me some time to read it. I'll let everyone know when I go to get a game up and running.

I've played some RT, and yes, it's crunchy as all get out, but there's a fair bit of diversity in the classes and between members of classes. I ran a Seneschal, built as a Master of Secrets, I had more spies than the Arch Militant had bolter rounds, both within the ship and within other organizations. I could have just as easily built a highly efficient merchant.
Fun system, I'd be inclined to run it at some point in the future, though not right now.

I'll have to track down a cheap copy of the PDF

Thinking of running the intro scenario that is in the corebook. So if anyone has interest and wants to play it, if you are obtaining the corebook, don't read through that adventure. :P

gonna have to wait till payday on that one...

I'm waiting for at least one other game I'm in to wrap up, then I'll probably be looking into this one.

so I'm reading up on some of the lore thanks to the internet, and for some reason tech priest appeals to me. is this a feasible character in rogue trader?

Tech Priests are amazing! However, I think they serve under the Machine God... I can't think of a good reason for one of them to become a 'rogue trader" (space pirate).