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<blockquote data-quote="easl" data-source="post: 7091155" data-attributes="member: 6856073"><p>It's nice, but your (4) is still a bit broken. Let's say I have a career I like (say, Spy), but it doesn't have a skill I want to take (say, starship tactics). I make a combo spy/navy tour career using your rules that looks exactly like the spy career - same attributes, etc. - but lo and behold, it now has a a bigger skill list and I can take starship tactics.</p><p></p><p>IOW, your system allows every career to have practically any skill attached to it. That's kinda wrong. </p><p></p><p>Personally I'd go with simpler advice to my players: just assume the experience you gained from your careers didn't necessarily come from d6 consecutive, dedicated years. Write your PC history in the way that makes sense for you. If you want to say that you went to University for 2 years, dropped out and joined the marines, and then went back to school on a GI bill and completed your degree, take Marine Tour and College and just describe it in the way that makes sense for your character. Want to be a librarian/vampire slayer? Then take librarian, take vampire slayer, and say you did the combo for 2d6 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="easl, post: 7091155, member: 6856073"] It's nice, but your (4) is still a bit broken. Let's say I have a career I like (say, Spy), but it doesn't have a skill I want to take (say, starship tactics). I make a combo spy/navy tour career using your rules that looks exactly like the spy career - same attributes, etc. - but lo and behold, it now has a a bigger skill list and I can take starship tactics. IOW, your system allows every career to have practically any skill attached to it. That's kinda wrong. Personally I'd go with simpler advice to my players: just assume the experience you gained from your careers didn't necessarily come from d6 consecutive, dedicated years. Write your PC history in the way that makes sense for you. If you want to say that you went to University for 2 years, dropped out and joined the marines, and then went back to school on a GI bill and completed your degree, take Marine Tour and College and just describe it in the way that makes sense for your character. Want to be a librarian/vampire slayer? Then take librarian, take vampire slayer, and say you did the combo for 2d6 years. [/QUOTE]
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