FATE: Classic Traveller Character Creation

Draft 1.0 – June 13, 2013 – Blue Tyson

Traveller characters are normal people in general with a thirst for adventure and wealth. If you were going to do them Fate Core pyramid style, you would certainly start lower than the usual.

However, part of the Traveller fun is the oddball lethal character creation system. Fatalised random character generation thefore follows

There are six basic Traveller attributes. Strength, Dexterity, Endurance, Intelligence, Education and Social Standing.

Each of these start at Good (+1). See the end for The Ladder used here.

As an example, we will create a character named Lyta. Six FATE Dice rolls gives :
+ – – – , – 0 + – , + + – – , 0 + 0 – , + – + + , + 0 0 – or -2, -1, 0, 0, +2, 0

This now gives Lyta

-1 Strength
0 Dexterity
+1 Endurance
+1 Intelligence
+3 Education
+1 Social Standing

…see document for rest

FATE Classic Traveller Character Creation

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