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Traveler’s character creation famously had the ability to end your character before you get to play
Feb 28, 2026
Traveler’s character creation famously had the ability to end your character before you get to play them. Apparently that risks sets in at the age of 34 and gets worse as you push your luck.
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When you get to to the point that aging
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becomes an issue, every four-year cycle
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you roll on the aging table, you roll
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2d6 and add or sorry, subtracted the
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number of uh career cycles that you've
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already had. So at 34, is it 34 or 36?
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34. At the end of the fourth career
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terms, somebody roll me 2d6 minus four.
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>> I gotcha.
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>> One.
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>> At one, you're fine. No effect from
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aging.
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>> Okay.
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>> Rand got a three. Also fine. Yeah. you
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don't actually start negative getting
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negative effects until you get into
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negative values. So your f like when
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you're 34 and you have your first aging
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roll, you have a minus4 and the lowest
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you could possibly go is a minus2 which
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gets you reduced two physical
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characteristics by one. It's like okay
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that's not great but that's survivable.
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So there is some incentive to keep
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pushing it and keep accumulating skills
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and connections and gear and make your
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character more and more experienced and
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powerful, but those risks accumulate.
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You might get more injuries. You might
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roll really bad on the aging table. Like
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if you get a negative six or worse, you
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reduce three physical characteristics by
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two. There are only three physical
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characteristics. And you reduce one
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mental characteristic by one. So like
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your stats are just plummeting as you
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age. And you hope that your skill
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proficiencies make up the difference.
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>> Yeah. So just atrophy and Alzheimer's
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the character.
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>> Yeah. Okay. Aging crisis. What does that
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mean? Any character is reduced.
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>> Think that's what happens when you turn
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40.
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>> Oh. If any characteristic is reduced to
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zero, then the traveler suffers an aging
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crisis. The traveler dies unless they
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pay uh 1d6 times 10,000 credits for
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medical care.
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>> Which will bring the characteristic back
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up to one. The traveler automatically
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fails any qualification from now on,
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which means your career is over. Even if
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you paid the medical cost to survive
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this, you no longer get to have a
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career. It's time to start playing the
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game with this old character who's
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barely alive.
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>> Rough Delta points out, "Otherwise, you
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could keep going after you get all your
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stats to zero and just farm skills
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forever." Yes, exactly. So, yeah. Uh, we
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figured out how you die during character
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creation. Way to go.
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>> Jesus.
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>> Yeah. Yep.
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>> Live fast, die young, leave a pretty
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corpse.
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>> Yes.
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