Changes to Character Gen

[infojunky]

Pondering basic and advanced character gen and I am kinda digging the special event role from MT.

Though numerous Zero level skills are kind tempting.

I not sure if it is more skills or the appearance of more that attracts me.

 

[Quint]

I converted over to CE, and added a bunch of professions, and some elements from MT and adapted the Cyberpunk Lifepath table (itself evidently inspired by Traveller CharGen). So everything has a Special Duty and Decorations roll, etc. Sometimes the decorations are simply bonus money (Rogues) and sometimes they're other special honors (Scientists). I found that these really do a decent job, in combination with the normal skill tables, of helping the player "create the narrative" of the character.

The one other thing I have done is create a series of, well, I guess it's like "kits" or "prestige classes" that players can attempt for based on their profession - things like being a part of the Imperial Guard, or a member of the Sword World Dueling Society, that come with some extra skills and modifiers to the normal CharGen process.

Now, I run a very space opera game where I'm not bothered with heavy skill levels so it might not be everyone's cup of tea. But my players seem to enjoy it.

D.

 

[agorski]

T5 has Level-0 skills, including extras you get from the trade codes of your homeworld. I also like the Fame system in T5 character generation which determines whether someone might have heard of your character.

 

[infojunky]

I converted over to CE

There chunks of the SRD/CE that I am looking at.
Though it comes around to a point buy system is what I will banging my head on next.