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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6512118" data-attributes="member: 1">Thing is, I see it as a infinite number of careers, and they have roleplaying significance.&nbsp; The scout is just the name I gave it; I could have called it the &quot;Military Scout&quot;.&nbsp; There's nothing preventing the existence of a non-military sneaky type.&nbsp; A Scout, however, is a guy who went through the military.I'm not fond of &quot;generic&quot; careers; I much prefer lots and lots of specific careers.&nbsp; They refer specific roles in the world, not to (like in D&amp;D) sets of abilities.&nbsp; So the solution to that isn't to change the Scout, it's to create a non-military sneaky career.I confess there's a reason for that - it's that when I wrote them, I was coming off a Star Trek RPG campaign, and my focus was on Starfleet Officers and the like.&nbsp; So I started with lots of careers to do Star Trek.&nbsp; That's why so many of them are a &quot;Starfleet&quot; career path.&nbsp; There will be more!Agreed.I'll take a look at that.&nbsp; It was there because I didn't want silly munchkin choices where folks optimized their characters by dropping in and out of the police force or what-have-you.&nbsp; Maybe it should be the other way around - you can return to careers *unless* it's one that doesn't let you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6512118, member: 1"] Thing is, I see it as a infinite number of careers, and they have roleplaying significance. The scout is just the name I gave it; I could have called it the "Military Scout". There's nothing preventing the existence of a non-military sneaky type. A Scout, however, is a guy who went through the military. I'm not fond of "generic" careers; I much prefer lots and lots of specific careers. They refer specific roles in the world, not to (like in D&D) sets of abilities. So the solution to that isn't to change the Scout, it's to create a non-military sneaky career. I confess there's a reason for that - it's that when I wrote them, I was coming off a Star Trek RPG campaign, and my focus was on Starfleet Officers and the like. So I started with lots of careers to do Star Trek. That's why so many of them are a "Starfleet" career path. There will be more! Agreed. I'll take a look at that. It was there because I didn't want silly munchkin choices where folks optimized their characters by dropping in and out of the police force or what-have-you. Maybe it should be the other way around - you can return to careers *unless* it's one that doesn't let you. [/QUOTE]

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