Background and Elective Skills for Traveller

As indicated in a previous post, I prefer for Traveller characters in my games to be more widely skilled than the game normally allows. As such, I have instituted a system whereby characters get skills before entering any service (i.e., before the age of eighteen), and a small selection of elective skills not related to their professional service during adulthood.

Background and Elective Skills for Traveller

Basic Training Skills for Traveller Services

I prefer Traveller characters to have a few more skills, so I have compiled a list of skills characters in my Traveller games acquire automatically upon entering the various services. These supersede any skills indicated as automatic acquisitions already.

Basic Training Skills for Traveller Services

Background Skills for Shadowrun

A new system for determining free Background and Knowledge skills for Shadowrun (3rd edition), based on how and where the character grew up. Characters should still get their regular allotment of Knowledge and Language skills, per the rules, as well.

Background Skills for Shadowrun

Master Exchange Chart for Ars Magica

Master chart discussing the monetary exchange value for books, vis, magic items, and other goods in Ars Magica. Based on information presented in various ArM5 supplements.

Master Exchange Chart

Hermetic Generations

A brief discussion of the "generations" of Hermetic mages, so that you can figure out how many "steps" removed from the Founders your mage is, based on when he or she started training.

Hermetic Generations

House Rules for Marvel Super Heroes RPG

My house rules for TSR's classic Marvel Super Heroes RPG. The rules I use allow the use of all characters and equipment as written.

Marvel Super Heroes House Rules

Home-Brew Rules for 1st edition AD&D

My document of house rules for 1st edition AD&D. I think it combines the nostalgic attraction of "old-school" gaming with some (but not too much) of the better mechanical tech that's been developed in the last thirty years.

Homebrew Rules Doc

Shadowrun Military Expenditures for Corporations

A short discussion of how much money the megacorporations in Shadowrun have available for military/security expenditures, in case you've ever wondered whether it was, in fact, plausible for some company to the throwing platoons of heavily-armed troops at your PCs.

Sixth World Military Expenditures