tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464498527698996815.post3996781184948784656..comments2024-03-03T03:20:20.957-05:00Comments on Ancient Faith in the Far Future: From Front Office to the Frontier - the Bureaucrats CareerRobert Weaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07917387796213598551noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464498527698996815.post-45058340127021440862022-03-10T12:48:31.825-05:002022-03-10T12:48:31.825-05:00The COTI list of Bureaucrats has, I think, the mos...The COTI list of Bureaucrats has, I think, the most highly-skilled characters in either Supp-1 or Supp4. Further down the list is a no-rank Bureaucrat with Admin-4, and an Executive & no-ranker with Computer-6. Then there's the Executive with Admin-6 and Liaison-6. And an Assistant Manager with Admin-7! WOW!Robert Weaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07917387796213598551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464498527698996815.post-72236035736279402922021-11-09T17:07:55.463-05:002021-11-09T17:07:55.463-05:00If I ever play in a regular campaign, rather than ...If I ever play in a regular campaign, rather than ref, I've been saying for the last 2 years I'll roll up a bureaucrat and see what happens. Could be real fun. A chance for some good roleplaying. bloftin2https://www.blogger.com/profile/15844041793216503114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464498527698996815.post-43340577496979234472021-11-06T18:34:15.156-04:002021-11-06T18:34:15.156-04:00I can see the need for bureaucrats (though later j...I can see the need for bureaucrats (though later journals covered the SPA for the port jobs) and don't really think it was a joke. I do think it may have been thought of as more an NPC type of thing, just so you could have stats for that clerk required your signature on the 3rd page of that cargo manifest you forgot to sign. It is just a citizen so fits the bill there. Interestingly for the January challenge I did generate a bureaucrat who had 5 terms, got 2 watches, but only Admin-2. As per 'Willconsult4food' there are lots of bureaucratic jobs that basically border on adventure. <br /><br />Besides - that would be an interesting character to play: Walter Mitty character who gets in over his head when his fantasy life becomes real.Craig Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01058529051056253854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464498527698996815.post-63454142738569556772021-10-22T23:10:35.745-04:002021-10-22T23:10:35.745-04:00As for it being a joke, I can't help but think...As for it being a joke, I can't help but think that the note on Reenlistment for Bureaucrats has to be some kind of in-joke that I don't get. We get a roll of 3+ for Reenlistment with an asterisk. The footnote says that characters must throw Reenlistment or higher to leave the service before retirement. So, if I'm reading that right, it simply means that the character normally has the choice to reenlist (35 chances in 36, as only a roll of 2 requires remaining in the service), which is simply replacing the normal roll of 12 as a requirement to remain in service with a roll of 2. I think? Again, it looks like someone is making an obscure joke, or else this is a convoluted way of saying that Reenlistment is automatic, and 1 time in 36 the character has no choice but to Reenlist. And then, I suppose, after retirement age, the system returns to a roll of 12 making another term necessary/possible? But if all this is so, then why not just make the Reenlistment roll 2+, with the usual 12 offering the character no choice and a roll of 2-11 allowing the choice of whether or not to continue?faoladhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691952430041394614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464498527698996815.post-10365200881294418942021-10-22T10:41:27.892-04:002021-10-22T10:41:27.892-04:00This career would include the guys in charge of a ...This career would include the guys in charge of a space port, or customs, or immigration, or the space station, or the moon base, or the mines. Lots of potential there.Baron Greystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636292202674906870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8464498527698996815.post-18876651840588770112021-10-22T09:58:08.230-04:002021-10-22T09:58:08.230-04:00Allow me to introduce Inspector Mako Ireson, from ...Allow me to introduce Inspector Mako Ireson, from S J MacDonald's "Fourth Fleet Irregulars" series book 1, "Mission Zero".<br />Mako is a prisons inspector, assigned to make sure that spacers being released from military prison and transferred to a special fleet ship are not being 'press ganged' and abused, as the press claims.<br /><br />Mako acquires a taste for life in the void between worlds.<br /><br />The series is a little Mary Sue, but its fun.willconsult4foodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17833665667790981874noreply@blogger.com