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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 1496935" data-attributes="member: 16077">I hear ya - I spent 6 years in the navy - people always assumed I dealt with nuclear weapons when they asked what I did and I responded with "Submarine Reactor Operator."  In the navy, it is a lot harder to cross-train to a completely different field unless the field you are in is way overcrowded - there is no every 4-year's go and cross-train options.  For example - as an Electronics Technician (ET) in the nuclear field - there ain't no way I'm going to be able to change jobs.  Us nukes were always undermanned - most of us were smart enough to get the hell out of the navy at the end of our first enlistment (which is 6 years in length).  Now, say I am a Yeoman 3rd Class (E-4) and I want to become an Information Systems Technician 3rd Class, I'll probably be allowed to convert since that rating is undermanned at the E1-E4 level.I'd like to revamp the current TW2K v2.x system for promotions and skills - boot camp, initial training (Army AIT, Navy 'A' School, etc.) and your first term skills would all be considered a single 4-year term with the exception that I'd make promotion rolls based on the minimum TIS/TIG requirements (therefore every enlisted guy in the Army, Air Force, and Navy would be an E-4 at the end of 4 years - note that in the USMC, E-4 promotion is competitive.) - In fact - this is a house-rule that I use now.  If we are talking d20 - then I'd have to make different prestige classes or feats for different things - I don't see how you could make a "Ranger Qualified" feat represent all of the knowledge you gain down in Ranger School and get that SQI of G for Ranger.  However, it would be easy, for example, to assign a feat for completing the Army's Master Fitness Trainer courseand getting the 5P ASI.  I just don't see an easy way of representing the differences in level of skill gained for different MOS's, SQI's and ASI's in an elegant manner.</blockquote>

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