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Message: <blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 9543194" data-attributes="member: 90374">The build struggle is real. I am a big Traveller fan and I have to work with players all the time on it. Chargen is random, but you can make a lot of informed choices to ensure (generally) the type of character you want. A lot of folks dislike not being able to just pick the things they want and how good they are at them. Even further, they view career paths like D&D class system. A career path is nothing like that. Its simply a background generator and skill delivery system for the character. For example, one player chose the scholar career and became a doctor. He was upset and said the system sucks becasue he couldnt effectively heal in combat (traveller is more heal after the battle mechanically) even though he had a dozen skills to chose from in any give situation. In his mind "doctor" was essentially a D&D cleric. Diving further into our earlier discussion, D&D has an oversized impression on TTRPGs in general. Especially, the trad/neo-trad approach of a GM role. Some games allow metacurrency to override GM decisions, other games allow a player to temporarily take on the role, and even others share the GM role equally amongst the players. So, symmetry, and more importantly, the expectation of symmetry, is going to vary.</blockquote>