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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gramcrackered" data-source="post: 1792513" data-attributes="member: 19168">Don't know if you realize this or not, but that IS the standard way it's handled for D20 Modern - when above Level 1, you start out with the Action Points you gained from your last level.  The book, ah, simply doesn't explain it very well.  Seem to recall I ended up reading about it through Wizard's Bullet Points.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Hadn't considered that.  Still worth checking out though.And now, the background.Background: Some people join the military to serve their country.  Others because they need money.  Still others because they simply have no other options in life.Ben joined up because...well...he was bored.Born the son of wealthy industrialist William Torie, Ben was a millionarie long before he got anywhere near the military.  Not, mind you, because he had the money simply given to him; indeed, all he ever recieved from his father in that area was a sizeable loan upon his eighteenth birthday.  A loan which Ben promptly repaid a month later, having taken his seed money and tripled it in value.From there Ben proceded to invest in all manner of businesses across the country, particularly favoring those that others had written off as lost causes.  Though this strategy seemed risky, the end result spoke for itself; no matter how random his methods seemed, money continued to flow into his bank account.A few years passed.  Ben was gaining money faster than he could ever spend it.  He was a clear success, his business crushing all oppostition.  And then, like a random lightning bolt from the sky, he simply stopped caring.  As he saw it, there was no point in continuing - he'd won.  From here on out, it'd simply be the same boring routine of one corporate success story after another, his life consumed with pie charts and spreadsheets.A week later Ben had turned his financial holdings over to his father for safe-keeping and joined the Air Force on what can only be called a whim.  The heart-attack his father had ten-minutes later was thankfully a rather mild one, as far as those things go.As in business, Ben's unorthodox approach to things had made him quite the surprising success in the military.  Admitidly, his tendency to give only lip-service to standard rules and regulations infuriates some.  Little can be done to deny his constant successes in the face of all manner of odds though, leaving his superiors with little choice time and time again but to promote him to a higher rank.Which brings us to how he's ended up in leading this particular mission.  Interestingly enough, there are two entirely different minds on the matter - both of which quite strongly believe he is the right man for the job.Those who can see his success and appreciate his ability to adapt to any situation believe Ben to be an excellent canidate for this sort of thing.  After all, he had a charisma which cannot be denied, a creative solution for ever occasion and, most importantly, he's never failed before.Those who are consistently angered by Ben's manner of handling his assignment simply see it as a chance to finally prove his way wrong.  Those with particularly dark hearts even see it as a chance to finally be rid of him for good.</blockquote>

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