> An interesting subject came up briefly in the PBEM game currently forming
> up; The question of acknowledging characters with doctorates. As I recall
The JTAS once published (this was during their Challenge period) a extended
scientist generation system (ala Mercenary). In this system there were provisions
for College as well as Graduate school (both takes 4 years).
> school. The reason this gets to be important, is that someone with an
> _exceedingly_ high level in something is _bound_ to be well-known by
> other people in the field. I see nothing wrong in having characters(PC
> or NPC) make a 2d or 3d check against a person's skill level to see
> if they recognize the person in question, with appropriate modifiers
> for how 'glamorous' the person's background might be. For example, a
> popular grav cycle racer with Grav Veh-5 would be easier to recognize
> than, say, a great bureaucrat with Admin-5.
The bureaucrat with Admin-5+ would probably be quite infamous:
"Golly! It's the Red Tape Menace of the Galaxy. Run awaaaaaay!!!" :-)
By the way, What is average level of skills in Traveller. 1? 2? 3?!
(High Guard lists 2 as "standard")
Anyone with Mathematics-4+ who can make an estimate based on the character
generation system?
And answer the essential question:
"How many sentinents with Pilot-7 is there in the Marches, statistically?" :-)
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