Mil-scifi. Feedback on char-gen wanted

[weasel fierce]

Antitank would be a catch all for "the knowledge to attack a tank". Its as much recognizing the safe angles to approach from, as it is the ability to use shaped charges or whatever the future might give us.

Grenadier is basically the skill of using grenade launchers. A bit specialized but I wanted there to be the situation where the grenadier is killed and somebody else picks up.

As far as disparate skills, Im imagining most of the players will make characters who were former military personnel, and who have now joined the legion for various reasons. So they are all infantry NOW, but they could have held all sorts of interesting positions before.
I also deliberately want a bit of a dirty dozen feel to it.


As far as the character creation, Im tempted to ditch the racial skills and just make that easy. My players seem to want human characters in any event. I might simply the char-gen in general. Maybe take professions from CoC as inspiration and do itr that way as suggested

[Enpeze]

Originally Posted by weasel fierce

Antitank would be a catch all for "the knowledge to attack a tank". Its as much recognizing the safe angles to approach from, as it is the ability to use shaped charges or whatever the future might give us.

Are you sure that this justifies a seperate skill? I mean why not having "heavy weapons" for it?

Originally Posted by weasel fierce

Grenadier is basically the skill of using grenade launchers. A bit specialized but I wanted there to be the situation where the grenadier is killed and somebody else picks up.

Ah...now I understand. I was not sure what you mean with it. In german the word "Grenadier" is a special sort of soldier. (like "Panzergrenadier")

Originally Posted by weasel fierce

As far as disparate skills, Im imagining most of the players will make characters who were former military personnel, and who have now joined the legion for various reasons. So they are all infantry NOW, but they could have held all sorts of interesting positions before.
I also deliberately want a bit of a dirty dozen feel to it.

Then they are members of a special unit? (AFAIR the dirty dozen have been a behind enemy line force)

[Kloster]

Originally Posted by Enpeze

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Ah...now I understand. I was not sure what you mean with it. In german the word "Grenadier" is a special sort of soldier. (like "Panzergrenadier")
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Historically, at least for french and german language, the Grenadier was the soldier throwing grenades, so HE was the grenade launcher!!!

Runequestement votre,

Kloster