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<blockquote data-quote="Poppyseed45" data-source="post: 8605275" data-attributes="member: 7035720">As said, new to the game but a long time gamer (30+ years). Just discovered OLD and NEW (ordered the books, which will arrive shortly, but reading the PDFs now). On page 50 of NEW, I noticed they mention linking REP and rank - that's awesome! I love it! However...From what I can tell, you can, if you push, start with 10 REP tops after character generation (assuming the usual 5-Grade character). If we compare that to the Navy table that's...barely a Lt.JG or Lt. Seems low for a 28 year old (who, in a modern NATO military would be at least an 03 (LT) edging toward 04 (Lt.Cmdr) at that point in their career. Is there something I'm missing? From what I can see, it seems required that you do base Attributes (and assign 2 points to REP if Human), a character take Whatever Origin (say, Navy Brat, +1 REP), Academy (Basic Training, no REP), Navy Cadet Cruise (which nets no REP), then maybe two Navy Tours (netting us +2 REP for 2d6 years) and then Academy (Command, +3 REP). Total 10 REP and average age 27 at the rank of Lt, barely, by cheesing on attribute points by being human. Am I missing something? I know, as GM, I can just add Grades to the characters, but without &quot;spamming&quot; the Academy (command) it's neigh impossible to start out with, say, a &quot;Commander&quot; Shepard style character (or, are we assuming Shep was, like, 36 by the end of Mass Effect? Does that mean 7 or 8 Grades?).A little help folks...Or better, if I want, say, PCs to start at least Lt.Cmdrs, how many Grades do they need to reach the appropriate amount of REP?Folks?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Poppyseed45, post: 8605275, member: 7035720"] As said, new to the game but a long time gamer (30+ years). Just discovered OLD and NEW (ordered the books, which will arrive shortly, but reading the PDFs now). On page 50 of NEW, I noticed they mention linking REP and rank - that's awesome! I love it! However... From what I can tell, you can, if you push, start with 10 REP tops after character generation (assuming the usual 5-Grade character). If we compare that to the Navy table that's...barely a Lt.JG or Lt. Seems low for a 28 year old (who, in a modern NATO military would be at least an 03 (LT) edging toward 04 (Lt.Cmdr) at that point in their career. Is there something I'm missing? From what I can see, it seems required that you do base Attributes (and assign 2 points to REP if Human), a character take Whatever Origin (say, Navy Brat, +1 REP), Academy (Basic Training, no REP), Navy Cadet Cruise (which nets no REP), then maybe two Navy Tours (netting us +2 REP for 2d6 years) and then Academy (Command, +3 REP). Total 10 REP and average age 27 at the rank of Lt, barely, by cheesing on attribute points by being human. Am I missing something? I know, as GM, I can just add Grades to the characters, but without "spamming" the Academy (command) it's neigh impossible to start out with, say, a "Commander" Shepard style character (or, are we assuming Shep was, like, 36 by the end of Mass Effect? Does that mean 7 or 8 Grades?). A little help folks... Or better, if I want, say, PCs to start at least Lt.Cmdrs, how many Grades do they need to reach the appropriate amount of REP? Folks? [/QUOTE]

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