Character Creation Step 5: Experienced, Age, and base SDC and HP

Determine the starting experienced, age, and base SDC and HP of your character by:

1. roll 1D100. 01-50: add 1 year. Roll again. 51-00: No more experience.
   For every year of experience: add 1D10% to the skill program skills, and half that to all other skills; add +1D20% to any one skill.
2. Add up the years of education, and the years of experience after high school.
3. base HP: PE+1D6. Base SDC: 5D6. If the character has joined the military, roll 1D6: (1-2 = +5 SDC, 3-4 = +10 SDC, 5-6 = +15 SDC)

For über-simple creation:

• Determine experience %, age and as per normal. Add the bonus % to the Base Skills, Skill Program, MOS, and any skill specialties (secondary skills) in the skills. For example, I rolled 5. 5 = +5%.
  Do NOT add the bonus percent to the main skill catagories.
• The result should be:

  Skills: Communications: IQx1% Domestic: IQx1% Electrical: IQx1% Espionage & Rogue: IQx1% Mechanical: IQx1% Medical: IQx1% Military: IQx1% Physical: PEx1% Pilot: PPx1% Pilot Related: IQx1% Science: IQx1% Technical: IQx1% - Language: French IQx3% +5% WP: PPx1%

  Base Skills IQx3 + ETSB% +5% Language: English 98% Language: Pick 1 +15% Math +5% Computer Operation +8% Hand to Hand: None Archaeologist Skill Program: IQ x1 + ETSB x2% +5% Wilderness Survival Paramedic Pilot Wheeled Vehicle Land Navigation Read Sensory Instruments Botany Research

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Table of contents

A: Determining Experience

• 01-50: add 1 year. Roll again.
• 51-00: move on to the next part of the step.

For every year of experience:

• add 1D10% of experience to all basic skills and skill programs, and half that to all other skills.
• add +1D20% on one skill per year of experience. This can either be a skill already selected, or a new skill. If it is a new skill, it starts at 0% + the applicable attribute.

B: Determine Age

Add up the years of:

• Post High-school education (determined by the education roll)
• Training in the military (usually 2, but sometimes less)
• years of experience (if any)

C: Determine initial HP and SDC

If the character has joined the military, roll 1D6: (1-2 = +5 SDC, 3-4 = +10 SDC, 5-6 = +15 SDC)

Refer to the modified Hand to Hand Combat skills to learn how to increase HP and SDC as the game progresses.

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Optional Rules

Randomly determine the age the character graduated from high school: Roll 1D6, even are 18, odd are 17).
Depending on when the school year graduation is in your game (my games are at the end of March, same as Japan), the result also implies the character's birthday. (In my games, someone who is 17 would have been born after March. Someone 18 would be born before April.)

Example character:

• Experience: I roll a 36. Next roll is an 83. +1 year.
• I roll a 5. I'll be adding 5% to the two skill programs, and half of that (2.5, rounded to 3%) to all the other skills.
• I'm going to pick a new skill: cooking. Result is
• High school graduation (I pick 17), +2 (from Trade School/on the job training) +1 year of experience, for a total of 20.
• HP: 11 (PE (8)+3.
• SDC: 14 (1+4+2+4+3)

REFERENCES USED

Palladium Books Game Engine

Numerous players of the MRG and MRC over the years who have play-tested these.