Behold! Sector 05 – Habitation. Aka Character creation.
Barring minor alterations to individual skills, this should be it for this chapter. Check it out, run character creation for yourself, try to find some cool or wacky combinations.
Also, as a fun exercise, my regular playtest group would roll 1d10 3 times, rolling for origin-career-career and then trying to come up with an appropriate sci-fi archetype that fits that combination and/or an interesting skill interaction. It was a great viability test; never had a roll that was unworkable, and really allowed them to step outside the bounds they were comfortable with. Give it a shot, if you have a spare moment.
Moving on to Sector 06 – Marketplace. Gotta equip those newly minted characters!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ky16XZasoPaFUwelpyX2lLZkk/view?usp=sharing
I’ve been quiet, but really loving these updates! It’s been a highlight whenever I see a new post.
What’s up with the pdf format? Are you printing as image on purpose?
Kevin Tompos Thanks 🙂 I’ll try to do the same for the Marketplace stuff. To quote Borderlands: “Guns guns guns!”
Johnstone Metzger For some reason my Word saving as pdf started going completely wonky, creating weird artifacts and glitches. I’m trying a bunch of settings to get it to show up correctly, and I was running out of time to get the Character Creation uploaded, so I went with an option that seemed to work. (Insert image macro of “I have no idea what I’m doing” dog in a lab coat)
Huh. What program are you using to make the pdfs?
Johnstone Metzger Just Microsoft Word (2010 I think)
Are you using the “adobe pdf” (under save as and the acrobat tab) or the “PDF or XPS” option?
Another typo: the page on the Impoverished origin says IMPROVERISHED, which sounds like a really odd portmanteau.
Johnstone Metzger I’m just doing File > Save As > Save As Type: PDF. Despite having the latest Adobe reader installed, there doesn’t seem to be an Acrobat tab available.
The ‘As image’ might be due to the fact that I’m using a non-standard font that the PDF can’t interpret? Maybe?
Jonatan Kilhamn Whoops. Good catch. Fixing that.
Hm. Maybe you need Acrobat installed to get the Adobe tab. Going by Word 2007 (don’t have 2010), there’s not a whole lot of options. Maybe you have the PDF/A box checked, under PDF options? If it’s not that, I dunno what it is. Your font is sorts mill goudy right? I don’t think that should be a problem.
What, no XP bonus for reversing the polarity of the neutron flow?