Playtest Chargen skill levels

[pasuuli]

What I'm seeing is a bit like low-key advanced Classic Traveller characters.

A nice mix of level-0 and level-1 skills.

A few level-2 skills.

If you put the time into the career, a level-3 skill or two.

If you're lucky, a level-4 skill.

Almost never a level-5.

Is that about right?

 

[SableWyvern]

That looks about right.

I did roll up a character who started with 12 Int and 12 Edu, went to naval engineering, made every promotion roll and -- rolling constantly on the Eng/Gunnery specialist table trying to pick up lots of Engineering, instead ended up with Computers 5 after five terms.

 

[rje]

What I'm seeing is a bit like low-key advanced Classic Traveller characters.

A nice mix of level-0 and level-1 skills.

A few level-2 skills.

If you put the time into the career, a level-3 skill or two.

If you're lucky, a level-4 skill.

Almost never a level-5.

Is that about right?

Traveller 5 could map fairly well to Mongoose, then. It could be as simple as dividing the T5 skill level in half, ignoring fractions.

So a (contrived) T5 character with:
Astrogation-1, Robotics-1, Pilot-2, Driver-3, Engineer-4, Computer-5, Unarmed Combat-7, Tactics-8

in Mongoose would be:
Astrogation-0, Robotics-0, Pilot-1, Driver-1, Engineer-2, Computer-2, Unarmed Combat-3, Tactics-4