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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amethal" data-source="post: 9240389" data-attributes="member: 22784">You don't have to us random character generation in Mongoose Traveller if you don't want to - there are alternate rules which give you a lot more control over the outcome. Which is a good thing, since Mongoose Traveller doesn't allow you to "accidentally" kill a bad character during character generation.However, I think Traveller works best if you embrace the random character generation.I once rolled up a character with some good stats, and thought "there's a great chance of becoming a naval officer" so applied for a commission in the (space) navy. I only needed 5+, but rolled 4 and got rejected. Then, to add insult to injury, the character ended up getting drafted - into the navy, as a grunt. That's an instant character hook - how does the character feel about that? I decided that he was very bitter over the whole experience, and did not like the navy at all.Traveller characters are usually people for whom life did not turn out as they had hoped / expected. They've ended up on the fringes of the Imperium (say) and now have one last chance to make something of themselves.Or to put it another way, it's fine that your character always wanted to be an engineer, and it's fine if the dice determined that he never actually got to be one - because now things are about to change.</blockquote>