(3/4) Traveller T20 - The Soldiers Sons. Game started, but still recruiting
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Brother allard, nice background.
Figure out what your homeplanet is like, and what sort of education you've gotten in your youth.
As for character creation, unless your char will go to uni first, you'll start as first level in the academy. Depending on your background you can choose your class. (could allready be navy if you were raised by one f your father's old lt's, or noble if you had a classical upbringing, hell, you could even do a tour as a belter, merchant or barbarian, just work it into your background)
Figure out what your homeplanet is like, and what sort of education you've gotten in your youth.
As for character creation, unless your char will go to uni first, you'll start as first level in the academy. Depending on your background you can choose your class. (could allready be navy if you were raised by one f your father's old lt's, or noble if you had a classical upbringing, hell, you could even do a tour as a belter, merchant or barbarian, just work it into your background)
Brother Allard
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Homeworld:
Seleucus C7405648 Na Po 422
To call Seleucus a wretched hive of scum and villainy is to offend wretched hives everywhere. Imperfectly pacified, the planet is a haven for rogues and mercenaries of every description. Only the capital city, Bellerophon (pop. 130,000), is effectively policed. The rest of the planet's surface is essentially lawless.
Education:
Darius spent most of his youth at Clement College, an old and fairly prestigious boarding school offworld. His classmates - largely second sons of old-noble houses - generally regarded him as an uncouth pretender from a particularly odious backwater of which none of them had ever heard. After a difficult few years, Darius finally found his niche by playing down to his peers' expectations. He began to smuggle illicit substances onto campus. After some success, he branched out into smuggling students off. He dabbled in bookkeeping, did a little light loansharking, and eventually established a reputation as the man to see any time a student had a need that couldn't be satisfied in broad daylight. For the most part, he stayed beneath the school administration's radar, but on one occasion avoided expulsion only through the adroit application of a particularly embarrassing piece of information regarding a certain administrator and a certain gardener's apprentice. His intelligence network was both broad and deep, and on the day of his graduation, the faculty breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Let me know if this concept doesn't fit with your idea of the campaign. High charisma, high intelligence, low wisdom. 1st level would be Noble, with a focus on the seamier skills. Feats might include Carousing and Contacts/Underworld. I'm thinking that at some point he will experience a sort of Hal/Henry conversion - possibly in the prelude, possibly offscreen during the flash-forward. But away from the particular pressures of boarding school and in an environment in which he is taken seriously on his own merits, I think he might display some more... uh... pro-social behavior.
Seleucus C7405648 Na Po 422
To call Seleucus a wretched hive of scum and villainy is to offend wretched hives everywhere. Imperfectly pacified, the planet is a haven for rogues and mercenaries of every description. Only the capital city, Bellerophon (pop. 130,000), is effectively policed. The rest of the planet's surface is essentially lawless.
Education:
Darius spent most of his youth at Clement College, an old and fairly prestigious boarding school offworld. His classmates - largely second sons of old-noble houses - generally regarded him as an uncouth pretender from a particularly odious backwater of which none of them had ever heard. After a difficult few years, Darius finally found his niche by playing down to his peers' expectations. He began to smuggle illicit substances onto campus. After some success, he branched out into smuggling students off. He dabbled in bookkeeping, did a little light loansharking, and eventually established a reputation as the man to see any time a student had a need that couldn't be satisfied in broad daylight. For the most part, he stayed beneath the school administration's radar, but on one occasion avoided expulsion only through the adroit application of a particularly embarrassing piece of information regarding a certain administrator and a certain gardener's apprentice. His intelligence network was both broad and deep, and on the day of his graduation, the faculty breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Let me know if this concept doesn't fit with your idea of the campaign. High charisma, high intelligence, low wisdom. 1st level would be Noble, with a focus on the seamier skills. Feats might include Carousing and Contacts/Underworld. I'm thinking that at some point he will experience a sort of Hal/Henry conversion - possibly in the prelude, possibly offscreen during the flash-forward. But away from the particular pressures of boarding school and in an environment in which he is taken seriously on his own merits, I think he might display some more... uh... pro-social behavior.
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Brother Allard
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I haven't figured out homeworld skills and such, so consider this "in process". I hope to finish him up over the weekend.
Updates:
Feb 21: finished homeworld skills and feats
Darius Auberon
Male Human (mixed) Noble 1
Blonde hair, Blue eyes
6'1" / 185 lbs
Age: 18
STR 11 (+0)
DEX 15 (+2)
CON 14 (+2)
INT 18 (+4)
EDU 11 (+0)
WIS 09 (-1)
CHA 17 (+3)
SOC 13 (+1)
Stamina die: 1d6+2
Stamina: 8 / Lifeblood 14
Fort (0+2) = +2
Refl (0+2) = +2
Will (2-1) = +1
Init (+2 Dex) = +2
BAB +0
Melee +0
Ranged +2
Credits 5000
XP 0
Languages Galanglic, Irilitok, Trokh, Solomani, Vilani
Skills (44):
Appraise 4+4 = 8
Bluff 4+3 = 7
Driving 1+3 = 4 (HW bonus for V/Wheeled)
Bribery 4+3 = 7
Forgery 2cc+4 = 6
Gambling 2cc+4 = 6
Gather Information 4+3+3 = 10 (HW x 3)
Innuendo 1-1 = 0
Intimidate 4+3 = 7
K/Court Politics 1+4 = 5
K/Imperial History 1+4 = 5
K/Underworld 1+4 = 5
Leader 4+4 = 8
Liaison 4+3 = 7
Sense Motive 4-1+3 = 6
Feats:
AP (Light)
WP (Swordsman, Marksman)
Connections (Second Sons) (human)
Skill Focus (sense motive) (lvl 1)
Carousing (bonus)
V/Wheeled (HW)
Equipment:
[in process]
Updates:
Feb 21: finished homeworld skills and feats
Darius Auberon
Male Human (mixed) Noble 1
Blonde hair, Blue eyes
6'1" / 185 lbs
Age: 18
STR 11 (+0)
DEX 15 (+2)
CON 14 (+2)
INT 18 (+4)
EDU 11 (+0)
WIS 09 (-1)
CHA 17 (+3)
SOC 13 (+1)
Stamina die: 1d6+2
Stamina: 8 / Lifeblood 14
Fort (0+2) = +2
Refl (0+2) = +2
Will (2-1) = +1
Init (+2 Dex) = +2
BAB +0
Melee +0
Ranged +2
Credits 5000
XP 0
Languages Galanglic, Irilitok, Trokh, Solomani, Vilani
Skills (44):
Appraise 4+4 = 8
Bluff 4+3 = 7
Driving 1+3 = 4 (HW bonus for V/Wheeled)
Bribery 4+3 = 7
Forgery 2cc+4 = 6
Gambling 2cc+4 = 6
Gather Information 4+3+3 = 10 (HW x 3)
Innuendo 1-1 = 0
Intimidate 4+3 = 7
K/Court Politics 1+4 = 5
K/Imperial History 1+4 = 5
K/Underworld 1+4 = 5
Leader 4+4 = 8
Liaison 4+3 = 7
Sense Motive 4-1+3 = 6
Feats:
AP (Light)
WP (Swordsman, Marksman)
Connections (Second Sons) (human)
Skill Focus (sense motive) (lvl 1)
Carousing (bonus)
V/Wheeled (HW)
Equipment:
[in process]
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Brother Allard
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I'm a little unclear how the Academy relates to University. I had thought that OTC was something one did while at University. Is that not the case here?
Wilphe
Adventurer
here he is
Edit: Updated for UNI
Edit: Updated w/Traveller
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?u=DHP&limit=on
Edit: Updated for UNI
Edit: Updated w/Traveller
http://invisiblecastle.com/find.py?u=DHP&limit=on
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OTC is on a different campus, on a naval academy. It is considered university, but you can first do a bachelor and a master in, say, space-electronics, and then follow basic OTC so you'll end up as an officer in engeneering, or something similar.
Or you can first do OTC and get all your training on the job, as it were.
The advantage is that you start a few levels higher, since we start playing at the academy. The downside is that you're a few yerars older then avarage, and that you may fail your exams, then go to OTC, so the instructors will think you're a dropout who thinks OTC will be easy...
Anyway, starting a few levels lower or higher doesn't make much of a difference in traveller, not even remotely compareble to a fantasy setting, where 4 levels is a huge difference.
Or you can first do OTC and get all your training on the job, as it were.
The advantage is that you start a few levels higher, since we start playing at the academy. The downside is that you're a few yerars older then avarage, and that you may fail your exams, then go to OTC, so the instructors will think you're a dropout who thinks OTC will be easy...
Anyway, starting a few levels lower or higher doesn't make much of a difference in traveller, not even remotely compareble to a fantasy setting, where 4 levels is a huge difference.
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Brother Allard
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Fair enough. Would you say it was more common to proceed through University before entering the Academy, or no?
The reason I ask is that I expect that his father (who is undoubtedly calling the shots at this point) would be something of a middle-of-the-roader in this sort of matter. His mind is really elsewhere, and he will simply require his son to do whatever is the accepted practice.
The reason I ask is that I expect that his father (who is undoubtedly calling the shots at this point) would be something of a middle-of-the-roader in this sort of matter. His mind is really elsewhere, and he will simply require his son to do whatever is the accepted practice.
