More Careers

[MasterGwydion]

Whatever happened to all of the other careers in Traveller? It used to be that every source book, like Dilettante, Psion, Cosmopolite, etc, had a section of additional careers. Whatever happened to those in MgT2 books? Just curious, since I still use the Black Books for all of that.

 

[Terry Mixon]

More career choices are always good.

 

[agentwigggles]

A lot of those if not most of those came from 3rd party publishers and not fro Mongoose themselves.
For this edition, we tend to see new careers for different culture groups.
The several careers I have penned, have always been a more focused/specialized version of one of the CRB careers.
Except maybe EMT career.
I should finish my athelete career.

 

[Jame Rowe]

I wouldn't mind careers such as primary school teacher or college professor.

 

[Condottiere]

Plumbers and electricians.

You never know what can go wrong on a starship.

 

[Arkathan]

I wouldn't mind careers such as primary school teacher or college professor.

These days, they'd have to add a skill, Indoctrination, probably as one of the first rank skills. No disrespect to REAL teachers who push REAL facts and critical thinking instead of an agenda.

 

[agentwigggles]

These days, they'd have to add a skill, Indoctrination, probably as one of the first rank skills. No disrespect to REAL teachers who push REAL facts and critical thinking instead of an agenda.

Poes Law In Action

 

[MongooseMatt]

The problem here is that we intentionally made the Core Rulebook careers very broad - I think everything mentioned above thus far is already covered...

 

[Space Smurf]

Plumbers and electricians.

You never know what can go wrong on a starship.

Oh yes, nothing like a heroic plumber

 

[JustEastOfTheEdge]

Sea Navy and Air Force.

 

[Condottiere]

 

[Limpin Legin]

The problem here is that we intentionally made the Core Rulebook careers very broad - I think everything mentioned above thus far is already covered...

Yes, the gist of 1e appears to be covered in 2e, although Dilettante and Cosmopolite were great names to add to the character sheet, and those names have been dropped, and the result is marginally duller, impact-wise and inspiration-wise.

The only "problem" I see with 2e careers is that there are now so many skills, including specialisations, that it is very difficult build a balanced set of characters, with good general "adventuring" skills, and several possibly useful "niche" skills.

Yes, the universe is vast, and players may need to know that they are small and insignificant, in terms of knowing everything about it, but I can't help think the game mechanic could be slightly more generous with career skills acquisition.

To second that, Pre-career education only gives a paltry number of skills, over four years, compared to real-life equivalents.

I mentioned these other points on discord recently, only I haven't received a plausible response yet.

 

[Condottiere]

Point system is probably better served, with lifepaths permitting access to specific skills and required minimums.

But that isn't Classic.

 

[MarkAlexander]

These days, they'd have to add a skill, Indoctrination, probably as one of the first rank skills. No disrespect to REAL teachers who push REAL facts and critical thinking instead of an agenda.

Hopefully, woke will have been defeated by the Third Imperium. I choose to believe that everything will work out fine.

 

[MarkAlexander]

Yes, the gist of 1e appears to be covered in 2e, although Dilettante and Cosmopolite were great names to add to the character sheet, and those names have been dropped, and the result is marginally duller, impact-wise and inspiration-wise.

The only "problem" I see with 2e careers is that there are now so many skills, including specialisations, that it is very difficult build a balanced set of characters, with good general "adventuring" skills, and several possibly useful "niche" skills.

Yes, the universe is vast, and players may need to know that they are small and insignificant, in terms of knowing everything about it, but I can't help think the game mechanic could be slightly more generous with career skills acquisition.

To second that, Pre-career education only gives a paltry number of skills, over four years, compared to real-life equivalents.

I mentioned these other points on discord recently, only I haven't received a plausible response yet.

Dilettante is now part of the Noble Career.

 

[Tom B]

Whatever happened to all of the other careers in Traveller? It used to be that every source book, like Dilettante, Psion, Cosmopolite, etc, had a section of additional careers. Whatever happened to those in MgT2 books? Just curious, since I still use the Black Books for all of that.

The Psion is in the core book (at the end).

A couple of new ones were added in the Companion, then there was the Bounty Hunter added recently.

The different races, species etc, such as Aslan, Darrian, Solomani, Dolphins etc. have their own ones. Most are not available to humans in the Imperium, the one exception I can remember was Geonee ADRAT.

There are loads out there, they're just spread about many books.

An index would be useful.

 

[Condottiere]

Which reminds me.

You what we're missing?

Mutants.

 

[agentwigggles]

how is mutant a career?

 

[Condottiere]

Psions leverage their capability.

A mutant could do the same with unique ones.

 

[Jame Rowe]

Poes Law In Action

Sadly, yes. And when I thought that my intent was clearly "Jame is talking about a fictionalized game."

Edit: and then he messaged me, ranting about the same exact thing, so he's on the ignored list.