Keeping or Changing Rank in T2K

[Targan]

Originally Posted by copeab

To be contrarian, in most groups I've known, the rank would be irrelevant. If the captain has good ideas, the PCs would listen to him, otherwise they'd ignore him. Then again, most players I've known would consider any adherence to rank contrary to the spirit of the game (PCs with military skills, military training, but no effective command structure).

I can't agree with that. I think it is a matter of taste. Nowhere in the original T2K rules does it say that rank should be ignored or that it should be obeyed. I think it comes down to individual campaigns and what the players are comfortable with. I have no problem with a campaign being based around a rank-free band of soldiers trying to stay alive, but suggesting that my campaign goes against the spirit of Twilight:2000 because the PCs in my campaign hold to a proper rank structure makes me raise my hackles.

I think the feeling would be among both the characters and the players in my campaign that if they ignored rank they would be no better than the maurauders they regularly destroy.