| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Ok, use this thread to discuss backup characters so they are available.
MDT
Rolling stats. More to come.
ROFL. Those above rolls total below an overall mod of +1. Here we go again:
What sort of backup character are you wanting Paul?
Something combat oriented instead of another tech. Army, Marine, and Navy are all on the table. I need to read over those careers more.
Let's try that again for an overall +1
I don't remember what the break point for between a -1 and 0 is.
@Brendan - Your second set is a +1 overall. 12 = +3, 4=-1, overall +2
What sort of backup character are you looking for Brendan?
Race: Human
Career (Core Rulebook): Marine
Specialist (Core Rulebook): Star Marine
Stats
Str: 7
Int: 7
Soc: 7
End: 12
Dex: 8
Edu: 9
You need to pick a homeworld (describe it basically).
Basic Training (All at 0, unless background skills granted them, in which case they go up to 1)
Athletics (Any)
Battledress
Tactics (Any)
Heavy Weapons (Any)
Gun Combat (Any)
Stealth
Battle Dress +1
Rank : 1 Lieutenant (Gain Leadership 1)
Crime: The character commits a crime, is accused of a crime, or is the victim of a crime. Lose one Benefit roll or reduce your Social Standing by 1.
If there's a better version of a "Star Marine" out there then I'm open to suggestions but I couldn't find anything in the PDFs that I have.
Name: James Lawson
Homeworld: A planet devastated by a factional war. Even children, like James Lawson, were drafted to fight. The crust was eventually cracked by weapons of mass destruction; billions died as the planet split apart. Fighting continued in Zero-g by the few remaining survivors until outside forces intervened. When rescued from this world at war, James was re-educated and then he joined the Star Marines of his rescuers.
Does "reduce your Social Standing by 1" mean my Soc stat or something else?
Yes, lose one benefit roll or reduce social stat by 1.
Planet's background skills : Zero G 0 and Vacuum 0
You may pick two additional background skills from :
Admin 0, Advocate 0, Art 0, Carouse 0, Comms 0, Computer 0, Drive
0, Engineer 0, Language 0, Medic 0, Physical Science 0, Life Science
0, Social Science 0, Space Science 0, Trade 0.
There's another book I have that does Mercenaries, which also has an expanded event table for the core book Marines, if you'd like to use either with your 2nd and subsequent career paths.
Forgot to check for Commission...
Enlisted :
Marine Rank 0 (Recruit, Gain Melee (Blade) 1 or Gun Combat (any) 1
Marine Rank 1 (Lance Corporal, gain Gun Combat (any) 1, must not be 1 already)
Commission
Officer :
Rank 1 (Lieutenant, Gain Leadership 1)
Crime: Reduce social stat by 1 (Soc now 6).
Enlisted Marine Rank 0: Gun Combat (Slug Rifle) 1
Enlisted Marine Rank 1: Gun Combat (Slug Pistol) 1
Do the above skills fit the rules? If not then:
Enlisted Marine Rank 0: Melee (Blade) 1
Enlisted Marine Rank 1: Gun Combat (Slug Rifle) 1
Two additional Background skills:
Comms 0
Medic 0
Yep, the above fits the rules.
Skills :
Athletics (Any) 0
Comms 0
Battledress 0
Heavy Weapons (Any) 0
Leadership 1
Medic 0
Gun Combat (Slug Rifle) 1
Gun Combat (Slug Pistol) 1
Stealth 0
Tactics (Any) 0
Do you wish to continue as a Marine? A mercenary? Something else? Muster out?
If you continue as a Marine, do you wish to use the expanded event table or the standard event table?
Continue as a Marine. Those first 4 years kicked ass.
Is the expanded event table better? If so then let's do it.
I thought you listed above that Battle Dress got a +1?
Actually, since our combat heavy hitter (the Vargr) has left (being replaced with a Merchant), I'm very tempted to make this Marine my current character unless there's an objection?
Yes, typo, sorry. Not better, just more different events (36 events vs 12 events).
Second Term : Marines
Stealth +1
Sensors 0
Survival
Promotion
Rank : Captain (No benefit)
LIFE EVENT
New Contact: The character gains a new Contact.
Skills :
Athletics (Any) 0
Comms 0
Battledress 1
Heavy Weapons (Any) 0
Leadership 1
Medic 0
Gun Combat (Slug Rifle) 1
Gun Combat (Slug Pistol) 1
Sensors 0
Stealth 1
Tactics (Any) 0
Contact
Rank 2 : Captain
Do you wish to continue as a Marine? A mercenary? Something else? Muster out?
I'm looking at Traveller Book 1 - Mercenary (mgp3801). In there I see under Mercenary is the Commando, and one of the specializations is Spec Ops. Let's do that.
I think you'll like the Commando/Spec-Ops from the Mercenary book better, so I'll use that one...
Gain +1 to Heavy Weapons (Any)
Gain +1 to Gun Combat (Any)
Survival Sucess
Promotion
Rank 3 : Sergeant (Tactics: Military 1)
Life Event
Good Fortune: Something good happens to the character; he comes into money unexpectedly, has a lifelong dream come true, gets a book published or has some other stroke of good fortune. Gain a +2 DM to any one Benefit roll from his current career. (Commando)
Skills :
Athletics (Any) 0
Comms 0
Battledress 1
Heavy Weapons (Any) 1
Leadership 1
Medic 0
Gun Combat (Slug Rifle) 1
Gun Combat (Slug Pistol) 1
Sensors 0
Stealth 1
Tactics (Military) 1
+1 to any Gun Combat (pick existing or new one)
Contact
Good Fortune on Commando Muster out Rolls
Rank 2 : Captain
No objection to switching it out.
Do you wish to continue as a Commando? Something else? Muster out?
AGE : 30
I'm looking at Traveller Book 1 - Mercenary (mgp3801). In there I see under Mercenary is the Commando, and one of the specializations is Spec Ops. Let's do that.
I had the rolls up while watching the Doctor Strange preview premier so was already doing this while you posted. :)
I thought that Merc/Command/Spec Ops advancement was also Endurance? Or is that a type is my version of the book?
Skill decisioning:
Athletics (Endurance) 0
Comms 0
Battledress 1
Heavy Weapons (Launchers) 1
Leadership 1
Medic 0
Gun Combat (Energy Rifle) 1
Gun Combat (Slug Rifle) 1
Gun Combat (Slug Pistol) 1
Sensors 0
Stealth 1
Tactics (Military) 1
Continue as a Commando.
No, you're right, typo in my brain. :)
Combat Engineer 0
Remote Ops
FAILURE
Severely wounded. Roll twice on the Injury table and take the lower result. (Loss of 1 benefit roll)
Severely Wounded, reduce 1 physical stat by pts.
Forced out of Career, no event, no promotion.
Physical stat reduction: Str 7-3 = 4.
Does being forced out of the Career mean 2 or 4 years were spent?
Whether 32 or 34, I'll attempt to enter the Mercenary/Cadre/Field Exercise Leader Career (Survival End 7+ / Advancement End 7+).
With forced out of Career, you'd be forced out of Mercenary careers. They are linked together (ranks transfer). So you could go apply for some other career, but not the Mercenary ones.
I'm assuming you'd like to go for the 'healing the damage medically' and owe at the end of career?
And yes, 4 years.
You could go for an Agent career, like Bounty Hunter. Int 7+ check to get in.
Corporate Agent, Body Guard for example. Int 6+ to get in...
Yep, 'heal the damage medically' and owe at the end of the Career for Str.
The Agent / Corporate / Body Guard career looks good (Qualification Int 6+ / Survival End 7+ / Advancement Soc 7+).
Age : 38
Deception 0
Guncombat (Any) +1 (increase one or add new one)
Your corporation is bought out by an alien firm, you are ejected from the Agent career unless you have Language (any) 1 or Diplomat 2 or higher.
At 38 it's time to muster out, despite eight wasted years.
50%
30K / 2 = 15K debt
3 careers benefit rolls (one with a +2 if it's on the Commando muster out table).
Rank 3 Max Rank (2 benefit rolls)
You have 5 benefit rolls total, which tables do you want to roll on for cash/benefits?
If changed anything about Traveller, it would be to tone down the brutality of losing four years and getting nothing for your time when failing a Survival role. That particular failed roll just f@~&s you so hard. I'd probably cut it down to a 2 year loss.
Traveller is very very old school. You can die during character generation.
NO aging
Reduce 2 physical stats by 1.
Definitely using the Commando table. It's the best one.
Str 7-1 = 6
Dex 7-1 = 6
15K (Pays off debt)
Definitely need another cash roll.
20K (or 40K if you want to use your +2)
Nope. The other 3 rolls will be non-cash benefits.
On which muster out table? The +2 can only be used on Commando
I'm only interested in using the Commando table unless the rules require otherwise.
Armor
You can roll on any you want. I only asked because there's no ship shares on the Commando, but there is on the Corporate Agent.
I appreciate you pointing that out, as I didn't think the tables for failed careers were on the table. Still, with two terms in the toilet, I feel that my character would benefit the most from making remaining two benefit rolls on the Commando table.
You failed out of Commando too. :) Fortunately you aren't blocked. I take it you don't want to use the +2 on any roll so far, so fourth roll.
Weapon
Since I got armor and a weapon out of my Commando rolls, let's make this final roll on the Agent table.
Ship Share
Since I never used my +2 from Commando, I'd like to use it on my second cash roll to kick it up to 40k.
Technically I shouldn't, but since you never rolled any of your benefits on the Commando after the last Cash roll, yeah, we can do that.
I'm looking to build an engineer backup character.
Race: Darrian
Stats
Str: 4
Int: 12
Soc: 7
End: 6
Dex: 6
Edu: 8
I don't have the Darrian race book, so this is what I was seeing from the Core book.
Career (Core Rulebook): Navy
Specialist (Core Rulebook): Specialist: Eng/Gun
Been buried Brenden, I'll get you a post up soon.