Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader

• You can only improve characteristics and abilities that are in the archetype or origin advancement lists on designated level up spots for them, though you can sacrifice a talent for an characteristic/ability increase. Some Talents provide exceptions to this.

• There is a limit to how much you can improve a characteristic/ability per Archetype, so bear in mind that you cannot just pump all stats into a single of them from the start. You can level them further in the advanced archetypes.

• If you want your main character to be a skill monkey you likely need INT. Only the Operative archetype allows that per default, but the Voidborne Homeworld has a talent (Be Smart) that, apart from the main effect, always lets you advance INT (subject to the limit mentioned above) if you want to play something else.

• Similarly the Forge World Homeworld has a talent that allows the use of INT for dialogue checks instead of FEL, giving you an option to manage those checks even if your archetype does not work with FEL.

• Psykers can pick more psychic disciplines later (Biomancy/Telepathy etc). You are not locked into just the starter choice.

• The game automatically uses the party member with the best stats (out of the ones in the selected group) for a check in dialogue and on the map, so your MC does not have to be good at everything (but ofc sometimes you are alone).

• Respecs are free and unlimited, but you cannot undo archetype choices, so plan accordingly.