Survival Roll

[Tigleth Pilisar]

Probably a dumb question but jsut trying to learn the game.

On page 5 of the manual, step 6 a. is to roll for survival fo the character.

The index of the book refers to 2 places for survival:

Page 8: Survival: Each career has a survival roll. If you fail this roll, roll on the mishap table. This mishap is always enough to force you to leave the service. You lose the benefit roll for the current term only. A natural 2 is always a failure.

Page 58: which simply describes the skill of survival.

The example of character creation on pages 38/39 show that the survival roll for this Merchant career example is 4+.

Where do you find the survival roll for each career? Is it just 4+ for all of them? Why doesn't it either say it is 4+ on page 8, or have a survival roll number in the two pages for each career type like the description of Survival implies? It also appears that in the example the roll is modified because it says +0 to the roll. How do I know what characteristic causes the DM?

Thanks.

 

[Tigleth Pilisar]

I can see on the merchants page for Merchant Marine it says Survival Edu 5+, but the example on page 38 says 4+ so am I looking at the wrong place?

 

[rust]

Where do you find the survival roll for each career?

In my German edition it is in the upper right corner of each of the career
description pages, together with the roll required for advancement.

As for the example, just ignore the 4+, the right value would be 5+.

 

[CosmicGamer]

If I recall correctly, there are multiple errors in the Jamison example.

As rust indicated, the survival roll for the assignments/specializations for each career is in the upper right table labeled 'Career Progress'.

 

[Tigleth Pilisar]

Thanks guys. I read the thread about the promotion advancement in the example being wrong too. When on page 36 I saw that they used 10% under ship share value when the heading said 1% I should have been more lenient on dismissing things that appeared to be errors.

 

[Treebore]

Is there an errata compilation somewhere?

 

[BP]

There are some under free downloads in the Traveller section of the mongoose site.

Mercenary, Aslan have specific errata PDFs and the main guide has one listed as Player's Guide.

I'd say they aren't complete

They also don't cover 'explaining' any unclear rules...

The search feature of this forum is probably the best source of errata -and the post feature!