Career Experiences

During the character’s term of enlistment, the character gains life experiences that serve as further background, allowing a d20 skill roll instead of d10 when it can be justified as being something the character would have become skilled at due to the background. (This is standard DCC way of handling “skills”).

Roll once on the Service Events table per term to see what the most notable event that happened during that term.

After rolling for Service events roll for what you learned during that term on the Personal Development table: roll 2 times the first term of enlistment, then once per term afterward, on whichever tables you are eligible for.  Get an extra roll upon being Commissioned, and another upon each promotion.  Scouts receive 2 rolls per term instead (3 on the first term).

The player can choose which eligible chart to roll on, but can only roll on the Education once an Education result has come up on the Personal Development table. For Science, the first roll is always assumed to be Education.  When you get a duplicate result on any chart you may choose to be seconded to another service and get one roll on any other service’s table.

While the bonuses to stats on the Personal Development may seem tempting, remember that the difference between being able to claim some kind of background in a skill and not is an average of +5, and an increase of +10 on the maximum result.

Service Events Table

Special

Personal Development

Education Table

When an Education result comes up on the Personal Development table, roll here.  Thereafter you may choose additional rolls on the Education Table when allowed to make a roll.  A School of Hard Knocks result allows you a re-roll on the mustering out table (one reroll per Hard Knocks result) in place of rolling on another service.