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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6624667" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>It's a year too late for fundamental core changes, but maybe I can speak to your perception of the system?</p><p></p><p>An extra dice in your dice pool is a BIG step up. It's not like D&D where you basically get +1 each level from 1-20; an extra d6 is worth a lot more. So the dice pool shouldn't be regarded as the sole measure of advancement - that's for the big increases every few grades. Smaller, incremental increases occur as skills broaden - your primary dice pool might take a while to advance, but you can get better at a few lower ones in the meantime.</p><p></p><p>The downtime thing is gone. It's still there as a sidebar whereby the GM can allow career advancement during downtime for free, but otherwise you spend XP and gain new career grades at any time as long as the situation permits it (i.e. you still can't take a career as a college professor if you're exploring a distant galaxy with a crew of six). So you either pay XP OR you pay the years - two alternate ways of buying a career.</p><p></p><p>Downtime isn't related to RL, incidentally. Downtime can take place in one minute of narration. The GM says "5 years later...." and you've had five years downtime. OK, that's a terrible example, but it's nothing to do with real life or game scheduling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6624667, member: 1"] It's a year too late for fundamental core changes, but maybe I can speak to your perception of the system? An extra dice in your dice pool is a BIG step up. It's not like D&D where you basically get +1 each level from 1-20; an extra d6 is worth a lot more. So the dice pool shouldn't be regarded as the sole measure of advancement - that's for the big increases every few grades. Smaller, incremental increases occur as skills broaden - your primary dice pool might take a while to advance, but you can get better at a few lower ones in the meantime. The downtime thing is gone. It's still there as a sidebar whereby the GM can allow career advancement during downtime for free, but otherwise you spend XP and gain new career grades at any time as long as the situation permits it (i.e. you still can't take a career as a college professor if you're exploring a distant galaxy with a crew of six). So you either pay XP OR you pay the years - two alternate ways of buying a career. Downtime isn't related to RL, incidentally. Downtime can take place in one minute of narration. The GM says "5 years later...." and you've had five years downtime. OK, that's a terrible example, but it's nothing to do with real life or game scheduling. [/QUOTE]
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