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In Mike's case anagathics.
In Shorty's case, a jump space embolism accident prematurely whitened his hair.
Eakehia is considered a mature Aslani lady, from a starfaring merchant clan in Imperium SM region.
(Erin rolled her up TJ, but I'm RP-ing her)
My normal range is the early 30s. I have one major PC/NPC that is almost 50. He is a former CEO that I ported over from a Cyberpunk/Shadowrun campaign. He is currently travelling around the Spinward Marches.
When I was playing CT back in high school, I was somewhat appaled that I had to play an old fart of 40 or so just to have a character that could have more than 1-2 skills or merit and able to handle a weapon. Now that I'm approching that age, I feel somewhat vindicated that the house rules I came up with to correct that are actually very similar to the way charaters are done in T20.
Now if only I had the time to play like I did back then...
When I was playing CT back in high school, I was somewhat appaled that I had to play an old fart of 40 or so just to have a character that could have more than 1-2 skills or merit and able to handle a weapon.
Yeah, the basic unenhanced CT was not good for skill wise young PC's. I suspect that the best system in Traveller for allowing the young ones in with skills is GT, then T4. Having only been through the T20 CharGen once, and still a little confused by it, I just am not sure how it would turn out for young PC's.
In my new campaign everyone is in the 30-32 year range except for the hotshot pilot who is 26. In the Prior History he got a Starburst for Extreme Heroism and mustered out after that. He got a ton of experience (+8000) for earning that thing.