Hi /tg/.
Just started playing Traveller (the Mongoose one) today and rolled a Combat Implant in muster benefits, but can't find it anywhere in the interwebs.
Does anyone know what that thing is?
>>44409775
I have a player who rolled it and we decided that it means any combat related implant.
My player got wounded during chargen, so we choose an endurance improvement.
tl;dr talk with your GM about your ideas of a combat implant.
>>44409835
Like those expensive augmentations? I doubt my GM allows it, but I see what you mean. Many thanks!
The book tells you what all benefits mean on pages 34 and 35
Combat Implant: Gain any one of the following augmentations
(see page 89): Skill Augmentation, Wafer Jack, Subdermal Armour
or Characteristic Augmentation. You must take the lowest-TL
Augmentation of that type. If you roll this benefit again, then you
may either take a different Augmentation or the upgrade one you
already possess to the next higher TL.
>>44410118
That's not the Mongoose version.
>>44410275
Yes it is.
>>44410275
Not that guy, but yeah it is. Mongoose specifies what everything means, I think just before it talks about aging etc, or just after
>>44410371
Wow, thanks!
Now that we are talking about that, is it common to end with mediocre characters? I mean, I retired at 50 after being an inspector, a bounty hunter and a patrol officer and I just have a pair of maxed skills and a breathtaking debt.
>>44411133
Pretty much. Midlife Crisis innnn spaaaace is a pretty good descriptor of Traveller.
>>44411133
In addition to what >>44411262 said, skills are pretty chunky in Traveller. Someone once did the math and found that each point in Melee(Blade) increases your odds of successfully hitting about as much as 3 levels in Fighter over D&D way.
Also, a character with few skills should still be generally competent as an adventurer. Luke Skywalker was statted in the old Citizens of the Imperium book. His skill list? Pilot 1.
