First Character

[Thanos]

Here’s my 1st Character attempt to get a feel for char generation.

My goal was to be a navel officer. I rolled a 10, 7, 7, 4, 11, and 10. Knowing that I need a 6 to enlist and that Int gives a bonus to enlist I arranged things as follows: Str 7, Dex 10, End 7, Int 11, Edu 10, Soc 4.

For my basic skills I get 3 +1 for my Int score. I picked carouse, computer, drive, and engineer. These are all 0 level skills.

I rolled 2d6 for a whopping 4. That and my plus 1 for my Int score only gives me a 5. So no navy for me. I enter the draft and get Scouts.

I pick Courier as my specialty. For basic training I get: pilot (space craft), survival, mechanic, astrogation, comms, and gun combat. These are all level 0 skills.

I roll under the courier specialty for my first skill and get pilot so now I have pilot 1. I make my survival roll of 5. For life even I get betrayed. I next make my advancement roll and am now Scout 1 and get Vacc Suit 1. I also get a skill for advancing and roll on personal development at add +1 to my Dex raising it up to 11.

So ends my 1st 4 years in the Scouts.

Did I miss anything?

 

[aramis]

IIRC, failed survival means no advancement roll...

 

[Easterner9504]

5 is survive. I assume you were referred to Life Event table 8 Betrayal. you need roll a d6 and choose randomly a Rival or Enemy.

Also instead of getting 4 pre-skills (which I think is kinda OK) you were supposed to pick a homeworld. Any CT with trade classifications would work and you'd get home world skills 1st, then flesh out to 4 from the list. EXAMPLE: Terra is Hi so Streetwise 0 is assigned to Terrans then they consult the list for remaining pre-career skills.

 

[Thanos]

Ah. Yeah. I thought it was take from home world or education. So it's both. Gotcha. And yes, I rolled a 5 to survive and then rolled an 8 on the life event table.

 

[Gray Lensman]

Mongoose Char Gen can stink at times

 

[Fovean]

Mongoose Char Gen can stink at times

???

In his first term the Scout gets Pilot-1, Vacc Suit-1, DEX +1 plus a ton of Level-0 skills; also he makes Rank 1 and a betrayal gives him a rival or enemy NPC for the Ref to use.

What's so stinky about that?

 

[Xenon]

personally, i prefer the 'select skills' optional rule on page 40.

you have missed step 7b, to optionally establish a connection. you can get a skill for doing this, so it is worthwhile. in your case, you would be using the 'solo generation' rule.

 

[Kilgs]

Also, this is nitpicky... but I'm fairly certain you don't have to pick a Pilot cascade with a skill of 0. A 0 generally applies to all versions of the skill.