(3/4) Traveller T20 - The Soldiers Sons. Game started, but still recruiting
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Wilphe
Adventurer
Um lots?
17 = 13 x 2= 26
16 = 10 x 1= 10/36
15 = 8 x 1 = 8/44
13 = 5 x 1 = 5/49
11 = 3 x 1 = 3/52
8 = 0 = 0/52
7= -1 = -1/51
51 point buy, which would be the equivalent of 38 points in a 6 stat game
Character concepts, no names yet, because that is almost the least important thing.
Aslan - Alsan culture also has strong gender divisions, is obsessed with honour and tends to strict primogeniture, in fact some scholars have suggested that the Book of Our lord shows a strong Aslan influence. They tend to keep quiet about it in human space, and it's a very bad idea to mention it to a Solomani but is a source of quiet pride to some Aslan and enables them to affiliate well into maninstream human culture, ironically the main thing that stops them is human bigotry.
This character will be the second son of a new noble family, his father was a landless male noble who led a small group of landless wanderers into Imperial service in exchange for a land grant.
He and his followers were granted large tracts of a mostly uninhabited frontier world where they ranch. Having served with considerable honour and distinction his father was granted Lordship of the planet, a fact that has not been wholly appreciated by the previous human inhabitants of the planet.
This character will be more or less assimilated into mainstream human culture, but will act the part of a touchy Aslan when it suits him. Will join the Army, and work on his personal combat skills and stats - he will try to be an excellent duellist, partially because he expects to be insulted a lot, and partially because that is the quickest way for him to earn favours and honour in human society. He'll be in a lot of demand as a proxy or second, alien or not.
17 = 13 x 2= 26
16 = 10 x 1= 10/36
15 = 8 x 1 = 8/44
13 = 5 x 1 = 5/49
11 = 3 x 1 = 3/52
8 = 0 = 0/52
7= -1 = -1/51
51 point buy, which would be the equivalent of 38 points in a 6 stat game
Character concepts, no names yet, because that is almost the least important thing.
Aslan - Alsan culture also has strong gender divisions, is obsessed with honour and tends to strict primogeniture, in fact some scholars have suggested that the Book of Our lord shows a strong Aslan influence. They tend to keep quiet about it in human space, and it's a very bad idea to mention it to a Solomani but is a source of quiet pride to some Aslan and enables them to affiliate well into maninstream human culture, ironically the main thing that stops them is human bigotry.
This character will be the second son of a new noble family, his father was a landless male noble who led a small group of landless wanderers into Imperial service in exchange for a land grant.
He and his followers were granted large tracts of a mostly uninhabited frontier world where they ranch. Having served with considerable honour and distinction his father was granted Lordship of the planet, a fact that has not been wholly appreciated by the previous human inhabitants of the planet.
This character will be more or less assimilated into mainstream human culture, but will act the part of a touchy Aslan when it suits him. Will join the Army, and work on his personal combat skills and stats - he will try to be an excellent duellist, partially because he expects to be insulted a lot, and partially because that is the quickest way for him to earn favours and honour in human society. He'll be in a lot of demand as a proxy or second, alien or not.
Fair enough. Be aware that it'll not be an easy character to play in this setting, but I will try to make sure it'll be fun. You'll have to expect some bigotry from the NPC's
As for the stats : fine with me.
As for the rest of the background : focus on the actions of your father, what regiment he served in, what did he do to get the distinction,...
What was your character's youth like, what tech level is the planet, did he get some training before going to the OTC.
The OTC will starts with all characters at least level 1, so what class would you think he is?
As for the stats : fine with me.
As for the rest of the background : focus on the actions of your father, what regiment he served in, what did he do to get the distinction,...
What was your character's youth like, what tech level is the planet, did he get some training before going to the OTC.
The OTC will starts with all characters at least level 1, so what class would you think he is?
Wilphe
Adventurer
Vargr:
As prestige is so key to Vargr leadership, they can rarely or never make strict primogeniture (or gender divsion) work for them in the long term. What normally happens is that the offspring of the noble in question compete against each other to be named as 1st Son, 2nd Son, and so on. This character would be one of the sons of a Vargr leader enobled for his part in, more or less, peacfully keeping a strategically important and highpopulation but midtech Vargr world as an Imperial Client state.
Said son has decided to seek his fortune in Imperial Service, probably the Navy - though that service choice is dependent on the rest of the PCs. This is made rather more difficult by the fact that not only he is from a backward and barbarian planet, he's from a race reknowned as honourless and
Human:
Only son from a very old noble family that has only recently recovered it's fortunes, until recently they had little but their lineage and an august history to their name. This is partially because their fortune has since suffered from a long line of dissipated wastrels, so much so that their house is nigh-provebial for it. It is also because of some bad investment decisions. The fact they conspiciously do not follow mainstram Imperial religion counts against them to.
Their holdings had essentially shrunk to a significant chunk of a frontier ranching world, where they dug in and sought to rebuild their fortune, in recent decades having become significant figures in the planetary milita. The family's renaissance began when their world was invaded, the resident "Old Noble" family were upstarts compared to his line, but they were much richer and in favour at Court. However they badly botched the defence of the planet, being either cowardly, incompetant or traitorous. At least one scion managed to be all three at the same time, fortunatly he did more damage to the opposition than the Imperials.
It was left to the characters father to organise resitance and boot out the invaders. This was duely noted by the Emperor who promptly elevated him to Governer of the planet as well as a couple of its neighbours and gave him a fair chunk of the old noble's fiefs as well. While the PC should be learning at his fathers side, family tradition dictates that he pursue a military career first. It will also help him make friends and allies they sorely need, however it also brings him into contact with several people with a grudge, be it relatives of the "Old Noble" family he supplanted or various miscellaneous nobles who remember how his, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great (etc) Uncle Horace debauched their Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great (etc) Aunt Hortense and are burning for vengence.
As prestige is so key to Vargr leadership, they can rarely or never make strict primogeniture (or gender divsion) work for them in the long term. What normally happens is that the offspring of the noble in question compete against each other to be named as 1st Son, 2nd Son, and so on. This character would be one of the sons of a Vargr leader enobled for his part in, more or less, peacfully keeping a strategically important and highpopulation but midtech Vargr world as an Imperial Client state.
Said son has decided to seek his fortune in Imperial Service, probably the Navy - though that service choice is dependent on the rest of the PCs. This is made rather more difficult by the fact that not only he is from a backward and barbarian planet, he's from a race reknowned as honourless and
Human:
Only son from a very old noble family that has only recently recovered it's fortunes, until recently they had little but their lineage and an august history to their name. This is partially because their fortune has since suffered from a long line of dissipated wastrels, so much so that their house is nigh-provebial for it. It is also because of some bad investment decisions. The fact they conspiciously do not follow mainstram Imperial religion counts against them to.
Their holdings had essentially shrunk to a significant chunk of a frontier ranching world, where they dug in and sought to rebuild their fortune, in recent decades having become significant figures in the planetary milita. The family's renaissance began when their world was invaded, the resident "Old Noble" family were upstarts compared to his line, but they were much richer and in favour at Court. However they badly botched the defence of the planet, being either cowardly, incompetant or traitorous. At least one scion managed to be all three at the same time, fortunatly he did more damage to the opposition than the Imperials.
It was left to the characters father to organise resitance and boot out the invaders. This was duely noted by the Emperor who promptly elevated him to Governer of the planet as well as a couple of its neighbours and gave him a fair chunk of the old noble's fiefs as well. While the PC should be learning at his fathers side, family tradition dictates that he pursue a military career first. It will also help him make friends and allies they sorely need, however it also brings him into contact with several people with a grudge, be it relatives of the "Old Noble" family he supplanted or various miscellaneous nobles who remember how his, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great (etc) Uncle Horace debauched their Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great (etc) Aunt Hortense and are burning for vengence.
You choose, either the aslan or the human, the Vargr wouldn't work i think. The human should be the second son, the first would be heavily frowned upon. It could be the first son, but he'd be expected to leave the army and manage the estates after his first tour, using the training and education to better manage his estates in the frontier world, especially if he has no 'soldier brother'.
But the choice is yours.
But the choice is yours.
