In the run-up to the publication of 5th Frontier War Marc did a promotion
where for a SASE you'd get an autogenerated Traveller character assigned
to a counter in the game (just like the original Imperium concept). Mine
was a Marine Colonel, assigned to the 1071st Imperial Marine Regiment, so
I always assumed he was the CO. But he was unplayable, his SDE were
something like 143. His skills weren't bad, but he had to sit behind a lot
of armor plate back at HQ.
My brothers also each got one, and they were really awful, just one or two
terms each. The three together served as a reminder of what actual
auto-rolled characters looked like without all of the fudged rolls
generally practiced. I think they were also all basic 4-year term chargen
and not the Merc-style year-by-year expanded chargen.
> The doc in our current TNE game has a strength of 3 . it was 1
> (asteroid/space station background), but i made him buff it to 3. But
> he's also a filthy dirty psion. :P
>
> Kat, our dilettante (athlete[gymnast]/admin/noble) has the scores that
> makes Derek twitch: CBCA9B, and i watched her roll them up.
> The other two are "mere" humans with a normal spread of scores.
>
where for a SASE you'd get an autogenerated Traveller character assigned
to a counter in the game (just like the original Imperium concept). Mine
was a Marine Colonel, assigned to the 1071st Imperial Marine Regiment, so
I always assumed he was the CO. But he was unplayable, his SDE were
something like 143. His skills weren't bad, but he had to sit behind a lot
of armor plate back at HQ.
My brothers also each got one, and they were really awful, just one or two
terms each. The three together served as a reminder of what actual
auto-rolled characters looked like without all of the fudged rolls
generally practiced. I think they were also all basic 4-year term chargen
and not the Merc-style year-by-year expanded chargen.
> The doc in our current TNE game has a strength of 3 . it was 1
> (asteroid/space station background), but i made him buff it to 3. But
> he's also a filthy dirty psion. :P
>
> Kat, our dilettante (athlete[gymnast]/admin/noble) has the scores that
> makes Derek twitch: CBCA9B, and i watched her roll them up.
> The other two are "mere" humans with a normal spread of scores.
>