[HOE] Re: Military Back grounds and careers

["Matthew Weaver-Uzelac" <redbird47@hotmail.com>]

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>One thing that I think is missing is anything to allow players to have a
>decent set of normal background skills.


Hey all,
This is something that I have wondered about myself.  I'm a fan of the old 
Twilight:2000 and in that game, character generation revolved around going 
though 4 year terms and gaining skill points for that job (If you were a 
marine helo piolt you would get X points in Flying and y points in 
whatever.)  Different jobs would give different skill sets and the longer 
you stayed in a job, the better you got at it.

I had thought about doing that for HoE, but then I realized that something 
like that would be covered by the Profession and Trade skills.
Everytime I make a character with a profession like that I give them a 
professional skill at a level.  In my games I use that as a generic defult 
for skills that would best fit.  For example and Ex-Science teacher could 
use that skill instead of Academia to represent some exposure to that area.  
A sales clerk could use it as a form of persuasion.  Another example would 
have a former cop using his Profession:Cop skill to find forensic evidence.

Also instead of saying "To be an accountant you get level 3 in 
Trde:accounting  level 2 in Scrutinize and level 4 in choose ties" they 
could be guidelines "To be a former Bus Driver you should have Drivin':Bus 
and Tinkerin.  That way the actual skills would be lef up to the player/  
(Maybe they were a bad Lawyer so to reflect this they only had an 
Academia:Law 1 or 2)

Just a thought

Doc out
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