Rules Clarification Request: Basic Training; does it take an entire term or is it just in addition to the first term?

[shirgall]

My understanding of the rules are the very first career you do after university you do you get all the service skills at 0 (basic training) and do not do a skill role that term. The next very first term in a new career you can pick one skill from the list to take at level 0. All subsequent terms you pick a table and roll. In all cases you roll survival+event next, then advancement. All promotions you pick a table and roll.

One house rule I do is that I treat every career as if it is a profession. You get level 0 if you do basic training, and then go up 1 for every term you succeed at a survival roll. That way, there is always a professional organizational and functional familiarity level separate from the specific skills.

 

[Condottiere]

The cap on skill levels would be an attempt to prevent accumulations that produced an overpowered character.

You could make it tighter, and allow some degree of choice which ones the character does acquire, since zeroed ones don't count to the final tally.