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Originally Posted by copeab
I would tend to think that most soldiers in 2000 are not career professionals, who I think would have mostly killed by then, but drafted civilians after the start of the war.
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Originally Posted by Mahatatain
While I agree with your logic I don't think that this is how the character generation rules tend to work. Most players seem to generate PCs who are one of the few remaining career soldiers.
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I see what both of you are saying and I agree that using the standard T2K rules most PCs seem to be career soldiers. At the start of my last campaign most PCs were career soldiers including SF types but as the campaign progressed several players chose to generate draftees (mainly to give themselves a challenge and also to create poignant back stories). I also deliberately inserted a number of prominent major NPCs who were draftees and who were valued members of the party.
The char gen rules we were using were able to create extremely rich and detailed character backstories (year by year char gen after high school, family backgrounds, siblings, even major friends and enemies and other interesting tid bits). Because of this it wasn't necessarily a disadvantage to play a draftee/start of the war civilian who volunteered.