To Tha Moon!
Cosmic Mongoose
I see people ask sometimes about making a Psion in the current version of Traveller.
This is the best way I see to do it:
Pre-Career in Psionic Community
- From the Traveller Companion
- You get the Psionic Testing and Training free, even if you fail Entry
- Take Telepathy for the first Talent. There's no roll for it if you take it first.
- Increase Skill Levels in Talents you just gained
- Increase PSI if possible
- Try to get anything Psionics-wise that you can in the Pre-Career because it will only help later.
- Don't forget the extra PSI point the Pre-Career gives
- If you fail at Entry, you can still go into Psion as the 1st Career.
Term 1 in Psion
- This is really the best 1st Term if your character had Psionic Community for a Pre-Career.
- It works even if the character's PSI is a bit low. But not too low.
- This is where you build the Talents up so they are useable later.
- Increase Skill Levels in Talents you already have
- Increase PSI as much as possible
- Adding new Talents is nice, but they will always be low-level getting them at this point.
Term 2 in whatever you want
- You can take University here if you want.
- But if you don't make it well in the Pre-Career and the 1st Career, you will always be a low-level Psion without some enhancements like a PSI Battery.
Remember, you have a minimum of 2 on every roll, so it's:
PSI Bonus +
Skill Level +
Skill Check Roll +
Other Modifiers
And then you get almost all of the lower level skills without rolling or easily.
If anyone has anything else to add, please post it.
This is the best way I see to do it:
Pre-Career in Psionic Community
- From the Traveller Companion
- You get the Psionic Testing and Training free, even if you fail Entry
- Take Telepathy for the first Talent. There's no roll for it if you take it first.
- Increase Skill Levels in Talents you just gained
- Increase PSI if possible
- Try to get anything Psionics-wise that you can in the Pre-Career because it will only help later.
- Don't forget the extra PSI point the Pre-Career gives
- If you fail at Entry, you can still go into Psion as the 1st Career.
Term 1 in Psion
- This is really the best 1st Term if your character had Psionic Community for a Pre-Career.
- It works even if the character's PSI is a bit low. But not too low.
- This is where you build the Talents up so they are useable later.
- Increase Skill Levels in Talents you already have
- Increase PSI as much as possible
- Adding new Talents is nice, but they will always be low-level getting them at this point.
Term 2 in whatever you want
- You can take University here if you want.
- But if you don't make it well in the Pre-Career and the 1st Career, you will always be a low-level Psion without some enhancements like a PSI Battery.
Remember, you have a minimum of 2 on every roll, so it's:
PSI Bonus +
Skill Level +
Skill Check Roll +
Other Modifiers
And then you get almost all of the lower level skills without rolling or easily.
If anyone has anything else to add, please post it.
