Mustering Out Questions

[Nightshade]

Question 1: When do you roll for mustering out benefits, when your character is done with all his terms or when he is done with each class?

For instance, if I take two terms in Traveller and then two terms in Marines do I roll for mustering out benefits when I change classes or when I'm finished with prior experience?

 

[AllenS]

You roll for mustering out when you leave a career, such as if you miss a roll to reenlist in the Navy or something like that. It's based on the Prior Service tables and doesn't really relate to your class or classes per se.

Allen

 

[Friadoc]

Now I'm curious,

...doesn't Marine state that you have to already be a Marine to multi-class as one?

In other words, if you want to be a Marine at all, don't you have to started out as a Marine in the begining and then stay in as long as you can before switching to any of the 'free entry' classes?

Basically, isn't that how it is for all the service classes?

 

[PapaGolfWhiskey]

I think you guys are confusing prior history terms with class.

they have the same name but are actually discreet entities.

you can ONLY level up as a marine (or army navy, or scouts for the first time) when you are actually serving in that career. However. you aren't obligated to level up as a your service class. you could serve a term in the navy and level up as an academic.

you could go to university and level up as a rogue.

once you muster out... you have to avoid that 'prior history' table for at least a term. but there's nothing stopping you (as I read the rules, from going back later and trying to re-up into the service) nor is there anything stopping you from leveling up in any of your classes with the experience you game from a given term of 'prior history'

if you want you can serve 30 years in the navy and have all your experience spent on rogue. I'm sure there are some REAL military personal who effectively did so.

or maybe you were a criminal professional. serving with the rogues as a lawyer or doctor or computer hacker.

Even Al Capone needed an accountant.

 

[PapaGolfWhiskey]

er correction. the rogue/proffessional would have to have at least one level of rogue to have a rogue career. but all future levels could be in either rogue, professional, or yet a third class (as long as the class in question wasn't a service class other than scouts. (there's no such thing as an ex scout))

 

[PapaGolfWhiskey]

Note to self: check sources before posting.

upon further reading this is how I understand it to work.

1) if multiclassing into a service you can't get your first level as a marine, navy, army, scout -- until you've served your first term. ie any experience prior to enlistment must be spent on some other class.

2) However you can join a service class with experience in some other class under your belt. you can only level up IN a service class while actually employed in that service. Core classes have different rules: IE merchants can only level up while in a merchant prior history OR while part of a working starship. Academics, rogues etc. can level up whenever they gain sufficient experience (ie a character with one level of army and 5 levels of rogue, might never have actually had a 'rogue career')

3)Once you leave a career in past history you can never return to that -career- (meaning those tables on the prior history. however, unless you were army navy, marines or merchant. you can continue to level up in the class of the career you just left instead of in the class of the career you are serving.

erg.. I'm getting tied up in knots.

did any of this help or did I confuse you further?