As rolled up with the Mongoose Traveller RPG 2nd Edition 2022 Update, a book I was at first skeptical about...
Initial stats:
- Strength: 4 (-1)
- Dexterity: 4 (-1)
- Endurance: 8
- Intellect: 5 (-1)
- Education: 4 (-1)
- Social: 5 (-1)
- Psi: 6 (just for the hell of it, she is not psionic)
The universe was not kind to this one.
What kind of back-water planet slum produced these results?
The cruelty would continue...
Her dreams of joining the Scouts, well... it would not be.
Entered the draft. Swooped up by an Intelligence Agency. Her stats say she is not cut out for this line of work... probably used as some sort of patsy. Subsequently...
Nearly killed. CR25,000 in medical debt just to restore her body to its prior self. (5 points were lost among her already low physical stats.)
Spends the next few years drifting. Works in the belting industry.
Somehow she gets caught up in a failed, illegal, side venture. Gullible? Incompetent? Or just plain unlucky? The rolls were so bad I actually switched dice.
Arrested.
Incarcerated...
Joins a gang and learns how to fight. Paroled. Ironically, prison is where she found the most success.
Drifts once more as a scavenger. Runs into members of her former prison gang. They betray her. A former contact, now a rival.
Wanders some more.
Meets a new contact...
And this is where we stand:
- Strength: 4 (-1)
- Dexterity: 4 (-1)
- Endurance: 9 (+1)
- Intellect: 5 (-1)
- Education: 4 (-1)
- Social: 5 (-1)
- Psi: 6
Good Lord.
Skills:
- Athletics:0
- Drive: 0
- Flyer: 0
- Gun Combat: 0
- Investigate: 0
- Melee -- Unarmed: 1
- Profession -- Belter: 0
- Recon: 0
- Stealth: 0
- Streetwise: 1
- Survival: 0
CR: 4,000
Debt: 25,000
Contacts: 1
Rivals: 1
Age: 38
Or perhaps these are just memory implants and she's nothing more than a discarded replicant...
Damn, that's harsh. Not even lucky enough to die in chargen.
ReplyDeleteAlthough sometimes these characters rise to spectacular heights by a combination of luck and hard work. It has happened.
Such is the beauty of old school.
DeleteWow...somehow I want to know more about her adventures and what happens?
ReplyDeleteThat's what a good character creation system does -- it makes you want to play the game.
DeleteI completely agree, I loved Classic Traveller, played it tons back in High School (which was a LOOONG time ago), I had pretty much written off Mongoose 2nd ed. Traveller, but you make me want to rethink that... Your illustration really captures this character, she looks a bit sad, life had been hard and things haven't gone the way she had hoped or wanted, but she is a survivor.
DeleteThanks bud! As much as I like older esthetics, Mongoose really has done a good job with Traveller. Adding a Prisoner Career that you can land in do to (only a few of) the mishap tables is an awesome thing. You can't leave until you parole out. I just got lucky when she became a prisoner, it really added spice!
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