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by AndrewTravers
Sat Nov 13, 2021 4:41 am
Forum: Traveller PD
Topic: COMMENTS: Vulcan Conversion
Replies: 10
Views: 111

4) Because of "no sense of humour", a character with soc 2 who is told a joke about a priest, a Kzinti and a Romulan, would be at a base of minus 4 on his reactions, and if he didn't have carouse, he'd be at -7 to get the joke. It's an extreme situation, but it's going to come up from time to time ...
by AndrewTravers
Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:11 am
Forum: Traveller PD
Topic: COMMENTS: CH 02 - Character Creation
Replies: 12
Views: 118

Character Creation - General notes

Observations:
1) Life events at star fleet academy, roll an 8, have no life. Roll an 11, have no life but be even more lucky in the process.
2) Injury table, not in playtest material. Assumed the same as MGT
3) Graduation with honors does not grant a commission, or make any benefit for joining ...
by AndrewTravers
Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:39 am
Forum: Traveller PD
Topic: COMMENTS: Vulcan Conversion
Replies: 10
Views: 111

Vulcan first thoughts

We went through character creation tonight, with 3 of 4 characters picking Vulcan.
1) Special Rapport, Page 7 - do both "persons" need to be Vulcans? TOS fluff as well as later events suggest that Spock had chosen Kirk, but it's less clear that the process was reciprocal.
2) The penalties for ...
by AndrewTravers
Mon Nov 08, 2021 4:24 am
Forum: Traveller PD
Topic: Skill Question: History
Replies: 9
Views: 109

"Knowledge Skills"

One idea on this front was to apply something along the lines of what is done in "Shadowrun" where a character would have a number of "knowledge skills" based on a characters intellect. They could be things like history, additional languages, street knowledge (specific to a specific area ...