Merchant Knighthoods Too Easy?

[david.wendelken]

I was looking over the Merchant profession.

A Third Officer with Two terms, which is a plausible occurrence, has two 1 in 6 chance of getting a knighthood on the Benefits table. Third Officer? Really?
That seems pretty silly.

A First Officer with 5 terms, which is also plausible, has five 50% chances for a knighthood. Statistically, that's pretty much a certainty.

That seems pretty silly.

In addition, a Star Passage is worth a great deal of money, like about CR 250,000. Temporary employees have a 1 in 6 chance of one per term served, but a Third Officer has no chance of one. That's because the money chart reads:

1 Low Passage
2 Star Passage
3 Mid Passage
4 High Passage
etc.

Again, that seems silly.

 

[Jazzlvraz]

Several threads have pointed out that one of the first House Rules many Referees need to adopt is one controlling the +DM on Mustering Out. The most-common solution seems to be "The Player shall declare before each roll whether he's taking the DM".

 

[SanDragon]

And how much of it, no?

Or, am I too easy?

 

[Jazzlvraz]

And how much of it, no?

Or, am I too easy?

That's a variant I've seen folks mention more than once, so I believe it depends on your relationships with your players and your immortal soul .

 

[SanDragon]

:rofl:

 

[Murdoc]

Yeah, we do the choosing thing. Otherwise, how can you get those nifty secrets and wafer-jacks?

 

[Dagrill]

I was looking over the Merchant profession.
A Third Officer with Two terms, which is a plausible occurrence, has two 1 in 6 chance of getting a knighthood on the Benefits table. Third Officer? Really?
That seems pretty silly.

Hi,

I must agree I would suggest Knighthoods are only available to O6, M6, F6 and famous entertainers, which would mean creating a few more layers in the mustering out benefits tables.

Kind Regards

David