Education and University

[HackMasterFlash]

Do you roll Education and Social Standing like other abilities, or are they just plain assigned depending on whether or not your character was in high school.

Also, under University admissions and graduation (for Bachelors Program), it says "INT check vs. DC (22-EDU)." Does this mean you roll an Intelligence check versus 22, or do you add your Education modifier, too?

 

[MichaelL65]

Originally posted by HackMasterFlash:
Do you roll Education and Social Standing like other abilities, or are they just plain assigned depending on whether or not your character was in high school.

You typically roll them. Education is not the level of schooling you obtained, but the amount you remember.

Also, under University admissions and graduation (for Bachelors Program), it says "INT check vs. DC (22-EDU)." Does this mean you roll an Intelligence check versus 22, or do you add your Education modifier, too?

It means you subtract your education score from 22. If your EDU score was 12, your DC is 10. Roll the d20 and add your INT bonus.

 

[HackMasterFlash]

WOW. Seriously, thank you.

 

[Anton]

...and don't forget that the rolled EDU score will be adjusted by the homeworld the character is from. Low-tech worlds = negative modifiers, high-tech = positive.

Regards,

Anton

 

[msecrest]

Originally posted by MichaelL65:It means you subtract your education score from 22. If your EDU score was 12, your DC is 10. Roll the d20 and add your INT bonus.

Thanks for the clarification on that. I was wondering why the heck the made it too hard to get into college. I was using the EDU modifier not the actuall EDU value.

 

[Ishtar]

Another question along the same lines--
How do you apply your xp's earned in college as they relate to a character class? Does this automatically make Academic your core class, or what? E.g., you'll go up in level, so what class do you increase your level in?
--Courtney

 

[tjoneslo]

Originally posted by Empress Nicholle:
Another question along the same lines--
How do you apply your xp's earned in college as they relate to a character class? Does this automatically make Academic your core class, or what? E.g., you'll go up in level, so what class do you increase your level in?
--Courtney

You select a character class before starting college. The entire college thing is part of the prior history system, which starts after the character creation bits you remember from the D20 core books.

 

[Anton]

Originally posted by Empress Nicholle:
Another question along the same lines--
How do you apply your xp's earned in college as they relate to a character class? Does this automatically make Academic your core class, or what? E.g., you'll go up in level, so what class do you increase your level in?
--Courtney

No. There's several threads on the Boards about this. According to Hunter and MJD, they couldn't explain the University part of character creation in more detail due to licensing restrictions, but the forthcoming Player's Handbook will have much better examples.

In short, the university XP can be assigned to almost any class (with the exception of Barbarian). Academic isn't obligatory but is, of course, possible - but your Belter could be taking a course in Thermodynamic Mining Technology, your Traveller studying Xenoanthropology, your 'Service' classes could be either in OTC or on leave to study something related to their field of work, and even your Rogue could be skipping lectures and brushing up on his gambling skills

Regards,

Anton