Standard Career Options
These are the standard careers. There are a lot of them as each career also has three branches that differentiates it from the others.
The nicety of going the standard route is that you can change careers. The downside is that there are few guarantees you will get the skills you want. From my experience, most of the time you get between 50% - 75% of what you are looking for. But you can increase skills and learn new skills during the game, it just takes time.
Players trying to get the extra skills they want is where the saying “I died in chargen” / “I died in character generation” came from. But that is no longer a problem. Also, the more terms you take, the greater the chance of age taking its toll on you and your physical stats declining.
The nicety of going the standard route is that you can change careers. The downside is that there are few guarantees you will get the skills you want. From my experience, most of the time you get between 50% - 75% of what you are looking for. But you can increase skills and learn new skills during the game, it just takes time.
Players trying to get the extra skills they want is where the saying “I died in chargen” / “I died in character generation” came from. But that is no longer a problem. Also, the more terms you take, the greater the chance of age taking its toll on you and your physical stats declining.
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The Drifter career from Traveller is being replaced by the Drifter career from 2300 A.D. The Traveller Drifter had the Barbarian as an assignment, which never made any sense to me. A neanderthal as a regular in star-faring society? 2300 A.D. replaced the barbarian with the Freelancer which does make sense, much more sense. Otherwise, the two Drifter careers are exactly the same.
You can only get into the Prisoner career by a Life Event.
There are career options for characters that are influential in religion, or followers of a belief.
I am well aware I have not said anything about psionics so far. They are very rare. There are only two ways to get to be a psion. 1) Through a life event; 2) Being tested at birth. If the latter, then the psion option will be open to you, but it isn’t all flips and giggles. Psionics are outlawed in the Imperium. There is a real chance you will go to prison if caught, or worse, lobotomized.