Character advancements from Mission 2

[Nick]

Dugan gains one skill level i Hand to hand combat from certified to professional. He loses one point in agility permanently however from his leg injury from 16 to 15.

Patch gains one level in gun combat from novice to certified.

Windrider will be removed due to inactivity next mission so his skilled advancements are skipped.

Kurosaki gains one leve in Balance from Novice to Certified.

Quinn fails to achieve grand master status with his medical skills.

Lippa goes from Professional to Expert in hand to hand combat.

Honeset goes from Novice to Certified in hand to hand combat.

Ishizawa goes from novice to certified in motion tracker.

Johnson goes from certified to professional in gun combat

O'brien goes from Expert to Master in gun combat(!)

Pitt goes from Certified to Professional in hand to hand combat.

Stormhurst goes from certified to professional with special weapons.

Morse goes from certified to professional with gun combat.

Mons fails to advance his gun combat rating.

Thats all, 1½ hours later...

[Apachetear]

Yaaaay hand to hand - although I wonder what I did to help that level out in the missions?

[Quinn]

Uh Nick, just out of curiosity, what was my chance of getting grand master? Five percent?

[Raider65]

Nick, do you roll dice for each person to advance? Wow, 1 and a half hours. You're very dedicated Nick!!

Awesome, I went up in Spec Wpns.

[Nick]

Yeah spend quite some time on this

But I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun!

This is how it goes: First I print everyones characters - Then I look at my crowfoot notes to see who did which rolls. Then I start going through each character and try to find a skill that were used succesfully during the mission. If I can't find a suitable skill I will chose a skill that sort of cuts it so everyone gets a chance of skill advancement, due to the slow progression of the game.

The skill advancements are done through learning chances. You can gain learning chances during the missions, particularly if You are in a dangerous position.

You gain learning chances through

A) Be succesfull in a skill roll and roll low (8 or below)

B) Combat experience. This is up to the GM to decide. The book mentions killing 10 opponents as being good enough for getting a learning chance.

You then make a learning chance roll for the skill. You learning chance is based on Your learning roll value. This equals Intelligence + Motivation - 10.

In You case Quinn that gives You a learning roll of: 17.

This means a 17% chance of increasing a skill each learning chance You get.

//N

[Dugan]

Also don't you need to make quite a few learning roll passes to advance a skill from Professional to Expert? Or did you change that rule?

[Morse]

Finally i'll have some compitence when shooting

[Obi]

Master sniper at your service Marines. 

[Raider65]

Congrats, Obi. I mean Master Obi, LOL.

Nick, Can you go up in more than 1 skill per mission? Just asking to know.

[Obi]

The Force is strong with this one!  Opps wrong universe! 

[Quinn]

Aliens is percentile based? Didn't know that. Thanks Nick!

[Dugan]

Just re-read the rules on advancing skills and it says if you are trying to advance a skill from Novice to Certified or Certified to Professional you need to make one successful roll against your Learning Roll (Intelligence + Motivation - 10). But to go from Professional to Expert you must make two successful checks, Expert to Master three checks and Master to Grand Master 4 checks!


If you are Unskilled in a skill you make one Learning Roll, if you pass you become Certified and if you fail you become a Novice in the skill.


I suppose it might be an idea to work out everyones Learning Rolls and put them on the roster, for ease.

[Nick]

Correct.

//N

[Dugan]

Nick I think you missed out Patch with the advancements?

[Nick]

I did...

I will fix that tomorrow.

(Sorry patch)

//N