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Kairos
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Old April 14th, 2013, 01:17 PM
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I contacted Marc Miller and T5 is an extension of the D6 rules (Classic Traveller/MegaTraveller/etc.) so I looked over my old books to refresh my memory on character generation. One thing I noticed is some versions required the character home world and star system to be created since this granted some skills. Would HL work for generating the Star system/Home world?

Also a big part of a few of the old rule sets granted skills randomly as the character progressed through the years of each term of service. This would require storing the various skill tables and using random die roles since the user does not pick them like other systems. Does HL have any way to do something like this?
Hero Lab's core structure is based on explicit picks, but you can randomly generate numbers. You maybe could hack up something, but I'm not sure how efficient it would be.

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I've been looking through the HL xml files and have not been able to locate the class data, where does the kit pull this info? So if I have a Rogue in Pathfinder where does the definition for the level advancement reside?
You definitely want to spend time with the authoring kit wiki. The overview and Savage Worlds walkthrough are very useful:

http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index.php5/Main_Page
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