I don't think I ever played an Other character. It was always Army, Marines, Navy, or Scouts. Maybe a Merchant now and then. My buddies and I didn't have any long running campaigns in any system - don't ask me why. Well, it was probably because we (I know I did at least) came into RPGs with 1E AD&D, and modules, and so we thought modules were the way it was supposed to be played. So probably just made characters for each game/module. Except Aftermath!, which I know I made alot of scenarios for that kind of combined into a campaign.
Back to Traveller, I know we ignored the Survival rolls, and probably cheated on skill rolls, so we could always have gun skills. We were somewhat combat-centric.
So back to this character. Let's roll an Other, ignoring survival except for background story inputs (getting wounded), but will follow reenlistment rolls.
Tomsar Lanthden - Toms
Characteristics:
STR 6
DEX 5
END 12
INT 10
EDU10
SOC 7
Toms is very smart, highly educated, tough as nails (long distance runner type), but physically weak and clumsy. He comes from a middle class background, and doesn't have any aspirations but college and a career with a mega corporation. He graduates college with a degree in interstellar finance and is interviewing with all the big corporations when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman, Brandice 'Brandi' Carlioni.
He's head over heels for her, and she is thoroughly charmed by his intelligence. He proposes, and she agrees on one condition: come work for her Dad's import-export company so they don't have to change planets. He readily agrees, even though he knows he's saying goodbye to a sizeable chunk of income. But anything for Brandi.
After a year or two of ding the books and working finance deals, Toms has figured out there is a less-than-legal side to most of the family business. But he's still under Brandi's spell, and let's the family corrode his morales bit by bit.
Her brother Molo tries to show him the ropes, even though he has nothing but disdain for the weak nerd that Toms is. Molo educates him in the code of the streets and smugglers dens (Streetwise-1) and some basic blade fighting skills (Blade -1)
By the end of those four years, Toms love for Brandi has grown by as much as hers has ebbed. Plus Molo is starting to have suspicions about him. But she still loves him enough to vouch for him and keep him 'in the family'.
The next four years don't go as well. The marriage begins to truly crumbly, as Brandi gets tired of Toms' brain and starts sampling more brawn. Toms starts to realize the true nature of the business, and realizes he has to get out. Molo starts threatening him and frequently beating him up, trying to scare him in to staying and not being stupid and try and go to the authorities. So while Toms Endurance increases by 1, he doesn't pick up anymore skills.
By age 26, Toms has had it and plans his escape. He steals one of Molo's pistols, takes 10000 credits he squirreled away in a separate account, and flees the planet, praying he doesn't have to keep looking over his shoulder his entire life.
STR 6
DEX 5
END 13
INT 10
EDU 10
SOC 7
10000 credits, pistol
Blade - 1
Streetwise - 1
(BS Interstellar Finance)
So not much of a playable character, but a fun story to write. And could be an NPC or Patron, hiring the players for protection, retribution, kidnapping (trying to get Brandi back), or extortion. Fun.
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