Career/Tradition question

[dekrass]

When you increase a rank in an existing career do you apply the age adjustment as you do for a new career? If so "leveling up" mid-adventure will be impossible. That's not necessarily bad, but it strongly influences adventure design.

 

[Morrus]

When you increase a rank in an existing career do you apply the age adjustment as you do for a new career? If so "leveling up" mid-adventure will be impossible. That's not necessarily bad, but it strongly influences adventure design.

Nope. Just at character generation.

 

[Tigerlil]

Then again, if your campaign supports it you COULD use the years.

I got inspired for my next space opera campaign by the kickstarter video and is going to use the following rules:

XP can be used for all the normal uses (skills, atributes etc) except for gaining careers.
Players gain a "free" career step after every adventure path, and then we jump forward 1-6 years.

This way I can start them out as ensigns on a single starship, and hopefully end the campaign with them being admirals/presidents/millionaires/retired drunks/whatever, thus experience a lifetime. I guess it's a bit Pendragon or traveler like in that sense, but I like the basic core system of NEW better

 

[Morrus]

XP can be used for all the normal uses (skills, atributes etc) except for gaining careers.
Players gain a "free" career step after every adventure path, and then we jump forward 1-6 years.

That is definitely one of the default campaign models, and one ripe for exploration.