Mustering out early???

[Spiderfish]

Thats why you have to look after your joints I take quite a few supplements to protect my joints. Glucosamite and the like.

Its never easy to gain proper fitness at any age. If you want to take it to the nth degree you need to put in that extra effort, run that extra mile, jump that extra yard, lift that extra pound and never give in.

 

[Lord Iron Wolf]

Interesting discussion and it gives me a few flashbacks to the late 70's when no male player would play a female character. Now I guess the "Forbidden" is playing an aged character. Curious how it changes and stays the same over the years

Lord Iron Wolf

 

[Spiderfish]

Well playing a female character well can be very hard for a man. Women and men are not the same contary to the belief of many strange people. and not just physically but mentally to.

In the words of my fiance "a woman wouldent say that"

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I do actually feel different when playing female characters - I'm less aggressive, and I start seeing all men as potential rapists. It's very odd.

 

[Spiderfish]

Do you also ever do things for no reason?

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Never. I always have a perfectly good reason for everything I do, I'm just not telling you what it is. You should just *know*.

Excuse me, I have to go and eat chocolate icecream and watch Sex and the City...

 

[Spiderfish]

Haagen Daz? (if thats how it is spelt)

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Of course.

 

[redwalker]

Originally posted by FlightCommanderSolitude:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />As far as aging system is concerned, I too look upon the matrix as set out being very Draconian, ... I know somebody's probably going to take exception to that comment......

That must be my cue...

While we in the first world have mobile phones, automobiles, miracles of modern medical science, etc., some 20% of the world's population doesn't even have access to clean drinking water, and the average life expectancy in some countries is alarmingly short, not to mention nasty, dull and brutish.

There's little reason to imagine things being any different in the Third Imperium. *

While certainly there will be medical advances in the far future, it hardly follows that everyone will have access to them. So while I agree that the aging tables in the LBBs are rather harsh, consider them an average of many different social situations and factors, and perhaps adjust them where you see fit by, for example, shifting the age brackets up a few terms, or compressing them so they begin later but occur more frequently.

* Of course, your mileage may vary. However, I find it much more realistic - and certainly more interesting! - to have a Third Imperium where there are poor places and rich places, etc. </font>[/QUOTE]Based on conversations with military personnel, it's also easy to imagine situations where the soldiers know they should do the right thing for their long-term health, but thousands of daily emergencies keep driving them back to junk food, imbalanced exercise, insufficient vitamins, and second-hand cigarette smoke.

The unpleasant but plausible reality is that there should be stat loss checks long before they are due for aging. "Whoops, you inhaled too much depleted uranium. Lose d6 strength for this year. Why, yes, of course you have to check for depleted uranium every year."

Of course, if I were modifying Traveller for realism, the result wouldn't be recognizable as Traveller.

 

[DaveChase]

I was actually thinking about stat loss and time age versus real age (low berth, fast drug issues).

What if we have an additional table (or modified) for these 2 issues.

For stats your have an age modifier and stat modifier for when you possibly lose/again stats.
I.E. Nobles don't lose stats as soon as everyone else, Marine(T20) could lose stats sooner (depending on their assignement: Training no modifier, but Raids add a modifier)

Age (real versus elapse)
I would like to see a chart that helps determine how much sleep time (low berth/fastdrug) the character has done.

I.E Navy assignments
Training Zero modifier
Patrol +2 modifier
Assualt +1 modifier
Seige +2
Raid -1
Officer -1

Notes: the numbers only reflect possibilities assuming a 4 year tour.
each +1 means 6 months of adjusted time per 4 years
You can never go below zero on your modifier (unless you are playing heavily on the Slow drug)

Any way just a thought. I might try typing something up if:
Someone else doesn't and I have time

Dave

 

[Straybow]

Losing stats due to aging is entirely separate from losing stats due to job-related injury (which is tied to survival roll).

 

[DaveChase]

I understand the separation of injury stat loss vs aging.
I was just trying to propose that some jobs/assignments would have a better chance at getting low berth time versus being super active.
Think about the marine who does strikes every day (talking futuristic here) and takes Slow drug each day, maybe even more than once a day.

Lets assume that they age 1 extra hour each time they take slow drug and they take it once a day. Assuming 5 days of fighting per week works out to 260 hours of aging (or 10.83 days) per year, so
on a 4 year tour of this they have aged 43.32 days rounding down to 1 month.
With my suggested thought this would work out to -1.
Ok so they are not aging much but then everything over time adds up. (Of course I am even dealing with addiction or potential injury caused by the drugs)

Dave

 

[Spiderfish]

Based on conversations with military personnel, it's also easy to imagine situations where the soldiers know they should do the right thing for their long-term health, but thousands of daily emergencies keep driving them back to junk food, imbalanced exercise, insufficient vitamins, and second-hand cigarette smoke.

The unpleasant but plausible reality is that there should be stat loss checks long before they are due for aging. "Whoops, you inhaled too much depleted uranium. Lose d6 strength for this year. Why, yes, of course you have to check for depleted uranium every year."

Imbalanced exercise? What the hell does that mean? Just running?

Military personel tend to get a balanced fitness regimen of cardio vascular exercise and callistenics and many supplement this. I always did (and still do) additional work with free weights to improve my limit strength, speed, power and endurance.


But what would the depleted uranium affect? Endurance maybe?

The Traveller stats really are misleading since the term endurance is a catch all it seems to refer to both muscular endurance and cardio vascular endurance in the game but they are two different things.

Anywyay wouldent Mr Marine's battledress stop him breathing in depleted uranium etc.