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Originally Posted by Panther Al
What I am thinking is this: A player can say: Next term is my war term. He doesn't get the double skills it normally allows, but he is still able to take a secondary skill, and one additional MOS skill. Promotions are as normal. Does this make sense, or is it pure crap?  |
When I first ran an adventure to playtest the rules with my actual group, we had all PCs build with 3 terms. Those characters had been omitted after the test run. Every player had a chance to build a new PC. I let them choose:
1) Stick to the rules with a risk to play an old fart with low Agility and Strength or
2) build a character with 4 terms.
Now I would do it a little different: Just let the player decide, how old his PC should be and go for that.
After all, the players should be able, to identify with their characters.
In my group, the most players chose to have a character with 4 terms. The only player, who did it with the original rules (so not knowing, how old he would be) had a special idea in mind: He plays a former Marine Sniper, Gulf War veteran, who later on was a host of a TV cooking show, "Angel cooks", where he introduced the couisine of foreign countries to the TV audience. Therefore we changed the skills, he received during his Media career.
I think, you can build almost any character, if you do not stick to close to the character generation and let players play the characters, they want to. Although I strongly reject to build a bunch of über snake eaters. But thats my personal way and moving this OT.
One last thing: I let the background skills open in the beginning of charater generation and let the players decide on their background skills, when they know, how old the character is. It gives a chance, to flesh out the character more fitting. Someone, who was born in the 50ies would not have Computer skills from the first 17 years of his life.