With regards to AT's in traveller. Yes I believe that you are doing the
no skill correctly. At least I do it the following way:
Difficult uncertain (Skill [of Instructer], Int) to get a temporary
level-0 in the skill. If the character succeeds in the skill in a
non-trivial manner, then they can get an AT for the skill. (Note that
I don't allow people to keep the temporary level-0 until the next use
if that happens to be more than several weeks/months away.)
As for granting of AT's. (Without reading the rules) I usually give out
one AT per session, the character can choose, subject to my approval,
some skill that they used succesfully and enhanced the good of the
group. (Remeber that the AT's have to be dated, as one can only get
2 AT's for a particular skill per game-year).
At the beginning of every game session I allow the players to make
one attempt to develop a level in a skill. (Difficult AT, int I believe).
As a non-standard rule I also allow characters to develop stats in
a similar way. i.e. get AT's towards improving a stat, however I make them
decide that they want to try to improve a specific stat at the beginning
of the session, if they don't get an oppurtuninty to use the stat
constructively, then they don't get an AT for that session. I have
also toyed with making it harder to get higher stats, ie a stat of
1-4 requires 1 success to raise 5-9, 2 successes, 10-14 3 successes.
Now as AT is a two letter word with a in it....
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 10:12 EDT
> From: [email removed]
> Subject: (4470) asl;dfj
>
> >
> >Paul Dale | [email removed]
> >Department of Computer Science | [phone removed]
> >University of Queensland |
> >Australia, 4072 | Did you know that there are 41 two letter
> > | words containing the letter 'a'?
> >
> 41? In English? or in all languages? How about a list?
>
> P.B.
I tried this quickly on my system:
prism:Unbeliever cat /usr/dict/words | awk 'length < 3' | grep "[Aa]" | wc -l
24
and this is generous as state abbrev. are there (e.g. AZ, VA).
-Dan
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