I tried various searches for this but came up empty.
In many of the Traveller d6 systems the user does not manually distribute skill points, they roll against a table and get whatever the roll dictates. I now understand that HL does not really support random rolls like this which means the user would have to roll the dice.
So a Marine character might have a possible selection of:
1 Vacc Suit
2 Cutlass
3 Tactics
4 Zero-G Combat
5 Leadership
6 Gunner
for each term of service the character may get up to 6 rolls on that table. The first term user rolls 6 d6 and may get 1,3,4,4,5,1
which gives him
Vacc Suit - 2
Tactics - 1
Zero-G Combat - 2
Leadership - 1
is there a way to put the above table in HL, let the user input the die rolls and have HL assign the skill points? Otherwise the major portion of Traveller character generation happens outside of HL.
I suppose one way to do it would be to have a regular list of skills with the sequence number on the left and let the user just increment the correct value for the die roll.
Something like a Tab for the Marine Class with a skill list
Roll x d6 and increment designated skills:
1 Vacc Suit <2>
2 Cutlass <0>
3 Tactics <1>
4 Zero-G Combat <2>
5 Leadership <1>
6 Gunner <0>
Then show the overall collection of skills (since a character can have more than one service type with different skill lists) display with the values selected from the different terms of service.
In many of the Traveller d6 systems the user does not manually distribute skill points, they roll against a table and get whatever the roll dictates. I now understand that HL does not really support random rolls like this which means the user would have to roll the dice.
So a Marine character might have a possible selection of:
1 Vacc Suit
2 Cutlass
3 Tactics
4 Zero-G Combat
5 Leadership
6 Gunner
for each term of service the character may get up to 6 rolls on that table. The first term user rolls 6 d6 and may get 1,3,4,4,5,1
which gives him
Vacc Suit - 2
Tactics - 1
Zero-G Combat - 2
Leadership - 1
is there a way to put the above table in HL, let the user input the die rolls and have HL assign the skill points? Otherwise the major portion of Traveller character generation happens outside of HL.
I suppose one way to do it would be to have a regular list of skills with the sequence number on the left and let the user just increment the correct value for the die roll.
Something like a Tab for the Marine Class with a skill list
Roll x d6 and increment designated skills:
1 Vacc Suit <2>
2 Cutlass <0>
3 Tactics <1>
4 Zero-G Combat <2>
5 Leadership <1>
6 Gunner <0>
Then show the overall collection of skills (since a character can have more than one service type with different skill lists) display with the values selected from the different terms of service.
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