Career Jumping

[-Daniel-]

I was curious, do you prefer to generate characters from a single career unless forced out or do you willingly jump career to career?

For fun, I generated a character who jumped (or tried to) jump careers each term. Turned out kind of odd, but fun. Made me wonder if others jumped careers for their characters by choice.

Daniel

 

[Anonymous]

All the time. Sometimes the dice force it but mostly by choice. I prefer the wider skill base it gives a character and I prefer characters to not have +4DMs :wink:

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

I was curious, do you prefer to generate characters from a single career unless forced out or do you willingly jump career to career?

For fun, I generated a character who jumped (or tried to) jump careers each term. Turned out kind of odd, but fun. Made me wonder if others jumped careers for their characters by choice.

Daniel

I prefer a character that has had more than one career. More interesting backstory.

 

[CosmicGamer]

Never career hopped numerous careers as a forethought but
- I recall a time when I commonly had characters doing a term in the military so that the character gained some melee and gun combat skill before moving on. Easy rank 0 automatic skills.
- Sometimes I might be in a career to gain a specific skill. Maybe there is a specific role/position the character will need to play in the game. I pick a career to get the skill knowing that once I get it at level 2 I'll likely switch careers.

I've had it done as a result of the game mechanics - numerous mishaps.

There are times I switch careers as part of role playing
- A character who fails to qual and get into the career they always dreamed of may go from one career to another until something clicks with them.
- A character that fails promotion, especially if they fail twice in the first two terms, may become disgruntled with their career going nowhere and want to try something different.
- Character wants off their low tech poor world and joins the Imperial military then seeks out other opportunities

 

[Nobby-W]

I was curious, do you prefer to generate characters from a single career unless forced out or do you willingly jump career to career?
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Daniel

I did some rules for changing careers in CT/MT - for example a character could spend one or two terms in the army or navy, go to university and then work as a merchant.

The way I did it was to allow a change of career with a -1 per term after the first on the enlistment roll. Characters going to university for a term negated that DM. I also added some skill options from tertiary education options that didn't provide them - a list of skills that could be selected by the player as skills learned from the education.