General Have you found CharGen to be in the way of playing Traveller?

[Condottiere]

That would be a chemical lobotomy.

 

[Badenov]

Steward-Medical (Doctor) when you absolutely positively need both "a bottle in front of me," and a frontal lobotomy.

How profound!

 

[Grav_Moped]

How profound!

You must be The Wizard!

 

[Commander Truestar]

We don't really have determined outcomes, except in GURPS.

We can have preferred outcomes, like getting hold of a starship.

Again,
Back the day, I developed a CharGen system where you use the LBB(Book 4 and 5) to make all the rolls except for skill acquisition.
Each time you, survived a term, got commissioned or promoted and/or make a skill roll, you got points.

Then, you consulted a chart which told you:
A) What skills you can possibly roll from the charts available to you?
B) How much it costs to raise a skill you have to the next level, or buy Level 1 of a new skill.

That way, we avoided the random skill syndrome

 

[Condottiere]

I recall one variant, where you actually had to use a skill, in order to acquire it, or increase the level.