MGT Only: Reading about the Drifter character...

[Spinward Scout]

I was reading a thread on the Mongoose forum and someone mentioned the Drifter class as being a 'dropout' kind of character.

I have to disagree. Isn't the Drifter the character who would update the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Imperium' - the HHGTTI*?

What other things could the Drifter accomplish?

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Don't purchase the howood version of the HHGTTI if you are allergic to howood.

 

[TamsinP]

Just took a quick look at my MgT2e CRB to confirm what the Drifter "career" covers. The three "assignments" are:
Barbarian - You live on a primitive world without the benefit of technology.
Wanderer - You are a space bum, living hand-to-mouth in slums and spaceports across the galaxy.
Scavenger - You work as a belter (asteroid miner) or on a salvage crew.

I guess the HHG contributor would fall into the second option. Other possibilities for that option are perpetual tourists, taking working passage to get from system to system. Or maybe a sophont version of The Littlest Hobo.

 

[whulorigan]

... the Drifter "career" covers. The three "assignments" are:

Barbarian - You live on a primitive world without the benefit of technology.

This was a Classic Sup4: CotI Career to cover all of those low tech worlds

Scavenger - You work as a belter (asteroid miner) or on a salvage crew.

This was also a Classic Sup4: CotI Career, with expanded scope. Firefly was a combo of Free Trader, Smuggler, and Scavenger (Salvage).

Wanderer - You are a space bum, living hand-to-mouth in slums and spaceports across the galaxy.

I guess the HHG contributor would fall into the second option. Other possibilities for that option are perpetual tourists, taking working passage to get from system to system. Or maybe a sophont version of The Littlest Hobo

Wanderer is also the classic Traveller: See Dumarest from whence the term comes. Earl Dumarest was a Barbarian stowaway who got trained as a Merchant and then was ejected from the career and became a Wanderer (Traveller).

"You fail your enlistment roll; either submit to the draft or become a Traveller . . . "

 

[Spinward Scout]

Just took a quick look at my MgT2e CRB to confirm what the Drifter "career" covers. The three "assignments" are:
Barbarian - You live on a primitive world without the benefit of technology.
Wanderer - You are a space bum, living hand-to-mouth in slums and spaceports across the galaxy.
Scavenger - You work as a belter (asteroid miner) or on a salvage crew.

I guess the HHG contributor would fall into the second option. Other possibilities for that option are perpetual tourists, taking working passage to get from system to system. Or maybe a sophont version of The Littlest Hobo.

Ford Prefect would have been a Journalist and Wanderer, I'd think. What's it called when your work gets downgraded to the words 'Mostly Harmless'?

Firefly was a combo of Free Trader, Smuggler, and Scavenger (Salvage).

I don't see Smuggler anywhere on the Mongoose list of Careers. Would it fall under Pirate?

 

[kilemall]

Ford Prefect would have been a Journalist and Wanderer, I'd think. What's it called when your work gets downgraded to the words 'Mostly Harmless'?


I don't see Smuggler anywhere on the Mongoose list of Careers. Would it fall under Pirate?

I believe he’s focusing on the Belter part of the description.

Firefly has elements of Rogue to it too.

 

[TamsinP]

Ford Prefect would have been a Journalist and Wanderer, I'd think. What's it called when your work gets downgraded to the words 'Mostly Harmless'?

Journalist is one of the assignments for the Entertainer career - so maybe a combination of Entertainer/Journalist and Drifter/Wanderer?

I don't see Smuggler anywhere on the Mongoose list of Careers. Would it fall under Pirate?

Thinking about who is likely to engage in smuggling, which is usually an adjunct to a main career, it could be Merchant/Free Trader or Rogue/Pirate.

This was a Classic Sup4: CotI Career to cover all of those low tech worlds

This was also a Classic Sup4: CotI Career, with expanded scope.

Indeed they were.

Wanderer is also the classic Traveller: See Dumarest from whence the term comes. Earl Dumarest was a Barbarian stowaway who got trained as a Merchant and then was ejected from the career and became a Wanderer (Traveller).

A good example.