10-09-2018, 07:04 AM | #11 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Wellington, NZ
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Re: Low Berth Attendant - low status job?
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The fun comes when something goes wrong, and how skilled the medic is suddenly matters. That's when the GM gets to grin (and lets you see his Characters is open to the page with Neurological Disorders), and you get to worrying over whether they're a properly qualified Physican-12+, with supporting Diagnosis, etc., or just some steward with one point in First Aid for First Aid-10, and thus Physician defaulting to IQ-7, hopefully with a good manual and plenty of time for 'extra time' bonuses...
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10-09-2018, 09:46 AM | #12 | |
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: near Seattle WA USA
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Re: Low Berth Attendant - low status job?
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10-09-2018, 06:01 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Re: Low Berth Attendant - low status job?
Long distance shipping of people in low berths is shown in the novel "Agent Of The Imperium."
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10-10-2018, 05:23 AM | #14 | |
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Re: Low Berth Attendant - low status job?
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I could see an argument for assuming that the roll for survival encompasses all the potential issues regardless of when they occur in the process though. For example, there is a 5% chance when putting someone into low berth that it will result in unavoidable death, but that won't become apparent until an attempt is made to revive them. Ditto there is a 5% chance that the system suffers a similarly terminal failure whilst in transit. There is also a 10% chance that defrosting itself will cause problems. A single roll at about 20% could replace the three rolls since you only find out during the defrost. It isn't what the rules say, but it would justify why someone with appropriate skill needs to be in attendance at all times. You also have to consider the reasons why someone would risk dying to get to a destination that could only support a class E starport. I can well imagine that they would be willing to risk death to leave it. Some versions of Traveller assume that travel is equal both ways (otherwise there would be net migration). Of course you could have zero overall migration but class specific migration. For example the majority of low-berth passengers travel to a system to make their fortune and leave it on a middle-berth that they can now afford, or patients for an anti-aging facility travel 6 jumps in low-berth as a minor gamble to preserve their life-span but when they leave return on a high-berth cruise or gamblers travel to a casino world in High-Berth, but some of them have no choice but to return low-berth or prisoners are sent to a transportation system low-berth (at imperial expense) but when they leave at the end of their term might opt for a safer method. Last edited by swordtart; 10-10-2018 at 05:25 AM. Reason: restructuing |
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10-10-2018, 07:59 AM | #15 | |
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Re: Low Berth Attendant - low status job?
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No small ships looking to economize on crew either. Traveller came from a lot of different places and some of the borrowed parts don't always fit together perfectly.
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