[ooc]Traveller T20 - Full

[Watus]

Quinn has five terms as a Marine, and one as a Traveller. I'm kind of attached to the +2 boost to Intelligence...

 

[Maerdwyn]

RULE 0 Alert!


The T20 book has a ton of feats that give +2 to multiple skills, such as Alertness (+2 to Spot and Listen Checks). It also has a bunch of skills that give only +2 to a single check, such as Carousing (+2 to Gather Information in only certain social settings)

RULE 0: Any feat providing a bonus to only 1 skill grants +3 to that skill, not +2. If the feat is applicable under only certain conditions (such as Carousing), the bonus is +4. Skill focus applies to one skill at +3. Feats that impact more than one skill are unchanged (such as Alertness).

 

[Maerdwyn]

Quinn has five terms as a Marine, and one as a Traveller. I'm kind of attached to the +2 boost to Intelligence...

1st term: +2 INT
2nd Term: Cr5000
3rd Term:Weapon
4th term: Cr5000
5th Term: +1EDU
O3 Roll 1: Cr5000
O3 Roll 2: High Passage
Traveller: +1 EDU

 

[Maerdwyn]

Going off line for a bit to try to ressurrect my dead computer. I'l check back in a few hours.

Thanks,
Ian

 

[Guest 11456]

An Academic would work, as would a Professional, a Noble, or a Military character, depending on the area you anted to research.

Luriani are the dominant culture in the sector you are starting in, so any of these would make sense for you.

Still not sure how all this works. Start with one term as noble, followed by a number as academic, and end with a number as professional. Do I need to come up with general or specific areas of study/work. How specific? Possibly end with a term in the military. Military research if that works.

 

[Wilphe]

Here's the definition from CT: "Social Standing notes the social class and level of society from which the character (and his or her family) come."



In CT Army, Marines, Navy and Nobles were among the only classes that had the opportunity during character creation to improve their "Social standing", so I guess the option will be still there somehow in T20, probably during the mustering out. Originally they were also found on the skill tables, where they could be rolled for with increasing chance the higher rank you held. That part probably fell away with the free choosing and determination of skills with class levels.

In addition, I don't think a "Force Commander" is that high to warrant a that kind of social standing. A Major in the Imperium's vast array of troops is not really much. It could be different if he had served within a planetary military organization, but IIRC the Imperial military even shifted troops around on purpose so couldn't bond too tightly with the locals. Guess the slew of civil wars told them it would better that way.

Academics can get a +1 to SOC on the mustering out benefits

Army and Navy can get a +1
Marines can get a +2
but these classes need to reach 05 to get a chance of doing so.

The collory is that SOC is probably the *least* useful stat to anyone other than a noble (for whom its really important) as it is not a base for any skill rolls (and nobles need to take feats to use it as such).
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The Army runs on a Regimental system. In fact there is no Imperial Army, there is/are the "Unified Armies of the Imperium". Chain of command stops with the local (Sector and Subsector) nobility. The Marines on the other hand, are part of the Navy and answer to the Emperor through the Admiralty.

 

[Wilphe]

Still not sure how all this works. Start with one term as noble, followed by a number as academic, and end with a number as professional. Do I need to come up with general or specific areas of study/work. How specific? Possibly end with a term in the military. Military research if that works.

You can spend your entire time in the Military, and still advance as something else. The reverse does not apply though, ie: You can't be working as an Academic but gain levels in Army.

Unless Maerdwyn has rule zeroed that, as he has previously stated that to join a service class you have to take your first level as that class.

 

[Wilphe]

Does anyone know of an Imperial atlas organized, or at least searchable, by world attribute? I'm having a heck of a time trying to find a standard gravity, arid, agricultural, mid-tech, low law level world.

Too many requirements, you say? Bah! It's vital to the background, I say.

Hell, I'm having trouble finding worlds that don't have Exotic, Insidious astmospheres. There sure a lot of crap planets in the Imperium.

Well, as you bought the subject up:

http://www.dangermouse.net/cgi-bin/comic.pl?comic=94

 

[Maerdwyn]

Still not sure how all this works. Start with one term as noble, followed by a number as academic, and end with a number as professional. Do I need to come up with general or specific areas of study/work. How specific? Possibly end with a term in the military. Military research if that works.

That much switching around might work to your disadvantage. You can have up to seven terms of service, which each last four years, and your start those terms at age 18.

Military classes(Except scouts), by rule, have to come first, although after you gain a class level and serve one term of military service, you could take your next class level as a noble or professional or academic, while still carrying on in the military as your profession.

The most technical of the services (which would allow you to begin accumulating ranks in Technical skills) are Scout and Navy, although marines and Army have access to a couple technical skills.

If you want to be a pure researcher, you may do better by attending University (and getting a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree), and then a couple terms and class levels as an Academic.

If you want to be active, doing military research in the field, start off in the military(and university still might be a good choice afterwards), but you'd follow it with a couple terms and class levels in Professional.

With your 14 SOC ability, Noble isn't as much of an option as I'd thought - 16 SOC is generally required to multiclass into it. You could start out as a noble, but that would preclude both military service, and fully effective university attendance

If you want a military researcher, I'd start off by going as far in whicever service you want, maxing out your technical skills, and then start a professional career, taking levels in professional at the same time. Whether you want to attend university somewhere in there after leaving the military is up to you.

 

[Maerdwyn]

You can spend your entire time in the Military, and still advance as something else. The reverse does not apply though, ie: You can't be working as an Academic but gain levels in Army.

Unless Maerdwyn has rule zeroed that, as he has previously stated that to join a service class you have to take your first level as that class.

Edit: Actually not quite, on second and third readings, but that's what we've been doing, so will continue to do for this campaign.

The place in the T20 manual that implies that class and profession are seperate during prior history appears to just be wrong - and therefore class does equal profession. If everyone is happy with the way they've built their characters at this point, however, I see no point in going back that far to change it. If there are casualties, we'll tackle this issue then, unless people want to change it now.

(Note to self: go to FLGS and see if second printing of T20 is better-edited than first.)