[ogf-d20-l] traveller d20

[Aaron Day]

Brad Thompson wrote:
> 
> A more true-to-original (and more elegant) method would be to recreate the
> concept of 'Career Terms' which would be more like the original Traveller
> system of Terms, Promotions, Decorations, and Survival, and would not be
> shoe-horned into the Feat system.  It could either grant skill points or
> skill ranks.

I think if viewed a little broader the traveller character generation system is simply 
a
way to generate characters with previous experience (i.e. higher level). Assume you 
have a
class for each branch of service (not too outrageous). Then you can have a chapter 
called
something like "Starting Character Level" where you can discuss, in a manner similar to
the DMG, how to set the characters starting level based on a couple of rolls on the
Service Chart. Similar effect as the original version.

I don't see how this, or other "lifepath" type constructs violate the d20 license.


Aaron