Earl F Hampton III wrote:
> Eris
>
> A few questions.
Okay, shoot! :)
> 1) Are there legal/cert requirements for Cpt, Nav, Pilot,
> Eng....
Nope, not for Captain, Navigator, Pilot or Engineer. Now, in a
real world I'm sure there would be, but not in the game.
However, there is a game requirement that you have someone
with medical skill if you have low berths and someone with
steward skill if you carry high passengers...you have both, so
that's not a problem.
> 2) What positions are full time, ie can't do other things
> while you do them (shoot-pilot, pilot-nav,
> comm-shoot,shoot-captain...)?
Gunners can't be doing something else while in their turrets.
Whoever is piloting can navigate, run the comm and/or sensors
at the same time, but better to have at least two on the
bridge to share the duties. I'm going to use the CT computer
rules in this game, so you might want to have a third person
on the bridge for that. You will want someone in Engineering
during take offs, landings and run outs to the jump point...so
your Engineer shouldn't be a gunner. Your medic, steward and
cargomaster (trader) can do other things when they aren't
performing their main duties, but when the medic is doing
medicine, the steward is stewarding or the cargomaster is
trading/cargomastering they need to concentrate only on that.
> 3) When you say you want everyone to have something to do,
> you don't mean with the ship? You mean in the game as a
> whole, correct?
Correct! However, it would be ideal if everyone had something
to do aboard the ship too. During insystem flight, something
like...
2 on the bridge: Pilot/Nav, Electronics (comm/sensor/computer)
2 in the turrets: Gunner, Gunner...remember you can do this
with 0 skill in Gunnery
1 in Engineering
1 amidships dealing with passengers, security, and backing up
as needed.
In jump, the 2 on the bridge and 2 gunners can pull shifts in
the passenger area stewarding or engineering doing
maintenance. The more PC's with technical skills the lighter
the load will be to keep the ship well maintained, or to
repair damage if ethically challenged merchants, or other bad
guys, take some pot shots at the ship.
Ashore, remember different skills give bonuses to different
trade type tasks. Assign tasks to different PC's, based on
what they are good at, and get all of it done quickly leaving
more time for shore leave. :)
Admin: DM for middle passengers available.
Bribery: DM on Actual Value Table (1 for 2 skill levels)
affecting the price you can get for goods.
Broker: DM on Actual Value Table for buying and selling.
Carousing: Acts as Steward minus 1 (and will come in *very*
handy when dealing with your special passenger, Lord Percy).
Gambling: Not specifically a trade skill, but Lord Percy likes
to gamble, and someone might want to be able to keep him from
being cheated...or cheating...or try to win back whatever he
loses.
Liaison: DM on minor cargos available (and like carousing will
be handy handling Lord Percy).
Steward: DM for high passengers available.
Streetwise: DM for low passengers available (and this too
might be handy in dealing with Lord Percy :)).
Trader: (1) +/-DM up to 1/2 the skill level (round down) on
the Speculative Trade table, ie. if you roll an 16 and have
Trade-2 you could pick one of 15, 16, or 17 on the table
(house rule, oh! and I'm using the T20 Spec Table that has 100
entries). Trader also gives you advanced knowledge of what
the Actual Value Table will be (1 of the 2 dice) for up to
skill level x 3 days, ie. Trade-2 would let you know what one
of the dice will be up to 6 days in advance (not a lot of good
if it takes 7 days to get there, but Trade-3 is where *this*
one really kicks in!)
All the Vehicle skills come in handy once you're ashore.
Combat skills *will* come into play, and it is very likely
that investigative, science and perception skills will, too.
> 4) Are there skill sets you see missing that the group must
> have for you to tell your story?
I don't recall seeing Bribery, Carousing, Liaison, or
Gambling. You can get by without them, though you might be
using them...just without positive DM's. :) You all get
Computer, Vacc Suit, Brawling and Gun Cbt at 0 if you don't
have them listed so you avoid negative DM's there...OTOH,
*somebody* having a positive DM could come in quite handy at
times. Oh, and a couple of you have Grav Vehicle skill, but
NOBODY has ground vehicle skill...so it should be fun watching
you try to drive a car, truck, or atv in anything other than
ideal circumstances. :) Issac is a bit skill light, Bruce,
maybe we should add Ground Car or ATV 1?
While I'm at it, Earl, let's specify Bart's Gun Cbt skill a
bit. You have 3 as Gun Cbt, I'll give you 5, but you have to
divide the 5 up among: Body Pistol, Auto Pistol, Revolver,
Laser Pistol, SMG, Shotgun, Carbine, Rifle, ACR, Laser
Carbine, Laser Rifle or Gauss Rifle.
Bruce, Issac is a bit light in skills compared to the others
so add 4 more (in addition to the vehicle skill. I suggest
taking a couple of levels in a weapon and maybe Carousing,
Liaison or another level in Admin.
Does that help everyone?
Eris
