Mongoose Traveller V2 Character Creator Plugin Details

Description

This plugin adds a shortcode to add a sandpit for character creation experimentation. This allows for a new character to be created. The characters are saved locally in the browser (only) and can be exported in a format importable into Fantasy Grounds Unity.
[mongooseTravellerV2CharacterCreator /]

The following (minor) rules interpretations, clarifications and modifications have been made by this plugin:

Three of the initial stat rolls are made with a boon (i.e., roll 3D6 and take the best two).
Mishap 2 is always severely injured.
Skill specialisations are chosen at the end of character creation (rather than as you acquire level one in the base skill). This was to avoid overwhelming the player with options. However that does mean where you should be awarded a specialisation in a skill you, initially, get a level in the base skill instead. Also those skills which can be specialised are allowed to go above four until you reach that specialisation step.
In a few places where the official rules allow you to choose a skill in the skill tables these has been replaced by providing an entry for each skill in that table (making it have seven rows and a 1D7 roll).
The 'Any talent' entry in the Psion service skill table has been omitted (making that table have five rows and hence a 1D5 roll).
Connections do not allow the choice of any psionic talent (unless the character is Zhodani).

Version: 3.383.0
Author: David Vines
Last Updated: 2026-09-03T08:28:01Z
Requires WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
Tested up to: 7.1
License: Contains materials from Mongoose which are used by following the Mongoose fair use policy. The code elements were written solely by myself.
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Change Log

3.383.0 - 03 September 2026

Bug Fix: Ensure those forced to take a turn in a career qualify automatically for that career!

3.382.0 - 02 September 2026

Allow custom races to have characteristics over 15. Note that the Die Modifier for all characteristics over 15 remains at +3

Bug Fixes:

Corrected spelling of 'Mechanic' in Aslan Outlaw Pirate skill table
Aslan Spacer event 4 the 'Refuse' button has no effect
Custom species homeworld now copied into the character sheet

If you encounter a bug or have any comments about this character creator please send an email to webmaster(at)blog(dot)tremlas)dot(com), ideally including a screenshot.

3.380.0 - 01 September 2026

Support dark mode

3.379.0 - 01 September 2026

Bug Fix: Aslan Wanderer Mishap 3 causes 'this._entry[roll] is not a function'

3.378.0 - 31 August 2026

Bug fix: no species (or just 'Custom') shown on onscreen character sheet for species

3.377.0 - 30 August 2026

Added the ability to use a custom race if desired. This allows the manual entry of characteristics for the traveller. Manual stats can also be entered if you are in GM mode.

3.375.0 - 29 August 2026

Bug fix: moveAndClearSkillNoteList is not a function

3.374.0 - 29 August 2026

Bug Fix: 'undefined is not an object' when completing a colonist upbringing

3.373.0 - 28 August 2026

Bug fixes:

Connections should be able to take a skill to level 3

3.372.0 - 27 August 2026

Bug fixes:

Really fix specialisations that include a '-' in the name
Change spelling of 'Heavy Weapon' for Army Cavalry to the correct 'Heavy Weapons'

3.371.0 - 26 August 2026

Bug fixes:

No text shown for life event 12-5 and life event 12-2 not handled correctly for Aslan Hierate characters
Attending an Academy after being drafted causes a TypeError
Sort out specialisations that included a '-' in the name

3.370.0 - 25 August 2026

Bug Fix: 'c1-alreadymarried-button' not found

Reworked precareer event 11 (Make the SOC roll explicit and activate the submit button)

3.369.0 - 24 August 2026

Bug fix: Most careers not making the 'Advanced Education' skill table available for choice!

3.368.0 - 23 August 2026

Add Chemistry as a Science, fix spelling of Xenology

Bug Fix: Army auto accepted Marine Academy graduates instead of Army Academy gradutes

3.367.0 - 22 August 2026

Bug Fix: 'c1-drinaxlifeevent4-asim34' not found

Bug Fix: 'DJVMUtil.addBtn' is not a function

Bug Fix: Unable to proceed if a mustering out award offer a choice and the then chosen option requires a further choice (e.g. Aslan Scientist's Benefit 4 offers a choice of 1 Clan Share or a Weapon. But if you already have a weapon you then need to choose either Gun Combat or Melee as a skill)

Clarification: I, somewhat arbitarily, decided that if you are enslaved by the Aslan and then suffer a mishap (or other career ending event) then the Aslan decide you are worthless and release you from your enslavement. You're now informed explicitly when this occurs

3.366.0 - 21 August 2026

Bug Fix: Get the mustering out benefit both correct and allowing you to proceed

Bug Fix: Redeemed Aslan characters should be permitted to change career despite serving less than three terms in their previous career

3.365.0 - 20 August 2026

More Bug fixes:

List 'Ceremonial Kinship' as an awarded benefit
'c1-aslanscientistevent5' not found
Aslan scientist event 9 success is failure (and vice versa)
Aslan scientist event 5 Gun Combat mistyped
Stop multiple benefit awards on one button press

3.364.0 - 19 August 2026

Bug Fixes aplenty:

'Ceremonial Kinships' should be 'Ceremonial Kinship' (in my defense it's spelled both ways in the rulebook)
Unrecognised Benefit of 'TER+2'
'c1-drinaxlifeevent6-wasteland56' not found
Aslan Military Officer event 8 trying to use non-existent text for Aslan Military event 8
Unable to proceed after succeeding in helping the conspiracy in Aslan Envoy event 10
'c1-aslanmanagementmishap2-false' not found
Don't award benefits if the character owes benefits (stopping an effectively infinite loop)
Missing text when refusing the deal for agent mishap 2 (which also prevents the character from suffering the severe injury...)
'c1-aslanspaceofficerevent3-engineer' no found
'addAnEnemy' is not a function

3.363.0 - 18 August 2026

Bug fix: Unable to proceed in Aslan Ceremonial if you choose to keep the clan or family secret

3.362.0 - 18 August 2026

Bug fix: getOrInsert method on Map is not supported on some browsers at this time

3.361.0 - 17 August 2026

Bug fixes:

Skill checks should not be penalised if you're unskilled during character creation (this one is due to a misunderstanding I've had since the very beginnings of this character creator)
The minimum for social standing is now zero (if your social standing is zero and you have a severe aging crisis you won't be offered the choice to reduce it further)
Typo in Entertainer promotion skills ('Investigatec' instead of 'Investigate')
Fixed the logic determining the text shown for Aslan Life Event 4 (the code logic is fine, but it didn't get the text displayed correct

3.359.0 - 16 August 2026

Major update: This update adds support for Aslan careers as well as the Drinax life events. The Aslan careers are from the Pirates of Drinax campaign and the Aliens of Charted Space Volume 1 (with some adjustments where these two publications don't quite match up). There are some other minor fixes to the original core rulebook careers which I found while adding the code to support the Aslan and Drinax.

3.358.0 - 11 August 2026

Bug fix: exception if a spacer has no choice over what skills they learn (which happens if you choose Electronics and Profession as background skills)

3.345.0 - 02 August 2026

Minor change to HTML used to display exceptions

3.344.0 - 24 July 2026

Bug fixes:

Allow (internally) PSI to go below zero, so that bonuses on testing get resolved correctly
Handle missing checkVisibility method on some browsers

3.341.0 - 10 June 2026

Change punctuation of specialisations so that FGU can recognise them as applicable to equipment.

Note: For characters that have already been imported into FGU you'll need to manually update the character's skill list to add a space between the base skill and the '(' character and then update the specialisation so that it only uses lower case characters. For example a character with a Gun Combat skill and specialised in slug throwers their skill entry should read 'Gun Combat (slug)' Once the skill has been updated you will also need to get the 'actions' tab to update the actions. To do this click on the attribute box of the action at least once (the skill mod box should then automatically pick up the specialised skill)

3.340.0 - 13 March 2026

Correct the amount of money for a weapon received as a mustering out benefit

3.339.0 - 21 February 2026

Bug fix: Advancement rolls ignore bonuses (and penalties) gained during the current term. Allow a natural 2 roll to advance (assuming the bonuses allow a 2 to advance!)

3.338.0 - 11 February 2026

Bug Fix: Gambler skill called 'Gambling' in merchant event 5 - causing connection skill selection to fail later on (also fixed a couple of other typos). Note that I also changed it so that if you lose the gamble it remembers how many lost mustering out rolls until the end of that career (instead of instantly forgetting it if you didn't already have enough rolls)

3.336.0 - 29 January 2026

Bug Fix: Unable to export Bwap characters to PDF

3.333.0 - 25 December 2025

Bug Fix: Unable to proceed while a prisoner who shirked work

3.332.0 - 15 December 2025

Bug fix: Being forcibly drafted by event 11 in the drifters can cause a TypeError due to an off-by-one error (Also added a button to roll for the drafted career so that (in GM mode) it can be overriden)

3.331.0 - 09 December 2025

Add combat skills to capsule description (if not already listed)

3.330.0 - 08 December 2025

Add name and a description of some characteristics to the capsule description

3.329.0 - 07 December 2025

Provide a preference between Drive and Flyer. Some skill tables have an entry 'Drive or Flyer' - Rather than ask the player when the skill is rolled, we instead ask for a preference in the homeworld section (defaulting to Drive for worlds of TL8 or lower and Flyer for worlds of TL9 and higher). We ask in the homeworld section to avoid asking when granting the skill since it's hard for the code to ask for that choice when granting the skill
Provide a capsule description (suitable for use as a prompt to an AI image generator)
Bug fix: No way to proceed after winning a prison fight

3.328.0 - 27 November 2025

Cope with members of a psionic community who don't gain any psionic talents

3.327.0 - 01 November 2025

Bug fix: Being forced to leave a career lingers to all following career. Also stop forcing drifters to leave their career (you should always be able to become a drifter)

3.326.0 - 29 October 2025

Hide the text saying that you didn't get a psionic talent during training as well as elsewhere

3.325.0 - 11 October 2025

Fix link to the version history in the copyright notice

3.324.0 - 11 October 2025

Refactor: Common up some code between my plugins

3.323.0 - 06 October 2025

Bug Fix: Correct lookup for prisoner event 3

3.322.0 - 02 October 2025

Bug fix: drifter event 9 rejected text missing

3.321.0 - 01 October 2025

Sigh - Bug fix, correct the broken text for prisoner. Also fix skipping the psionic test (life event 12.1)

3.320.0 - 01 October 2025

Prevent exception on bad character load, Improve text for prisoners

3.319.0 - 13 September 2025

Bug fix: citizen mishap 4 missing text

3.314.0 - 10 September 2025

Add retrieve button to homeworld page

3.311.0 - 07 September 2025

Fix regular expression used to validate UWP

3.310.0 - 01 September 2025

Bug fixes:

Exception after choosing connections if you have psionic skills
Exception gaining fourth level of a psionic skill
Dice roll for psionic community hidden
GM Mode always ticked after page reload

3.309.0 - 31 August 2025

(Hopefully) fix generated PDF so that it is readable in Adobe Acrobat

3.308.0 - 30 August 2025

Bug fix: Exception 'no active control' when winning the duel in noble event 3

3.307.0 - 30 August 2025

Bug fix: Exception when processing end of term for characters who have the School of Hard Knocks precareer. Correct spelling of 'Streeetwise'

Show hidden stats in GM Mode

3.306.0 - 29 August 2025

Bug fix: exception on a failed aging roll

3.305.0 - 29 August 2025

Accept UWP copy/pasted from travellermap.com, fix handling of anagathics when aging

3.304.0 - 29 August 2025

Add a stats reroll if in GM mode

3.303.0 - 29 August 2025

Add GM (aka Cheat) Mode, save initial decisions in session storage (so it persists over a page reload)

Add Chronor as the default homeworld for Zhodani characters and Saurus as the default for Saurian characters

3.302.0 - 29 August 2025

Correct enlistment criteria for university and militray academies (too generous by one and two points respectively)

Also fix survival and advancement rolls that are based on END (this characteristic was being ignored)

3.301.0 - 28 August 2025

Reenable and fix the 'no active control' check

3.300.0 - 28 August 2025

Change the 'no active control' check from an exception into a console.log

3.299.0 - 28 August 2025

Add precareer options from Traveller Companion

3.298.0 - 28 August 2025

Bug fix: Sigh - fix awarding of TAS Membership (and fix description of Vargr stat changes)

3.297.0 - 28 August 2025

Bug fixes: Unknown Benefit Award: END +1, exception when generating PDF and character is a member of TAS.

3.296.0 - 28 August 2025

Bug fix: Exception if only one choice of specialisation

3.295.0 - 27 August 2025

Bug fix: scout event 10 failing with no element with id

3.294.0 - 26 August 2025

Bug fix: prevent negative total of benefit rolls, correct prisoner event handling

3.293.0 - 22 August 2025

Add additional races

3.292.0 - 21 August 2025

Fix unable to proceed after choosing the skill for scholar event 8

3.291.0 - 15 August 2025

Fix some promotion bonuses

3.290.0 - 15 August 2025

Bug fix - javascript error when you get promoted with a bonus!

3.289.0 - 15 August 2025

Add benefit roll on promotion even if you don't get any other bonus

3.288.0 - 03 August 2025

Bug fix - javascript error for citizen mishap 4

3.285.0 - 19 May 2025

Bug fix - javascript error when gaining advanced training

3.283.0 - 16 May 2025

Bug fix - javascript error for some agent events

3.282.0 - 12 May 2025

Add ability to choose how many characterestics are rolled with boon

3.279.0 - 25 December 2024

Fix to FGU export xml file (cosmetic fix)

3.278.0 - 18 November 2024

Bug fix - Adjust scout mishap3's contact and enemy counts. Provide enemy text on Scout event 3, Fix Typo's, Stop several events overwriting career event

3.277.0 - 18 November 2024

Fix typo. Add full life event list to the Notes of the FGU export

3.276.0 - 15 November 2024

Lock skills in the FGU file, Wording fixes, Bug fixes (citizen mishap4 and event3)

3.275.0 - 10 November 2024

Typo and small bug fixes. Rework the display of advancement options

3.274.0 - 08 November 2024

Added ability to embed text in the initial page (between the notes and the copyright notice)

3.273.0 - 08 November 2024

PDF Generation added

3.272.0 - 03 November 2024

Add Psionics

3.271.0 - 30 October 2024

Bug fixes

3.270.0 - 28 October 2024

Reword mishaps and events so that mishaps caused by events do not imply you leave the career is almost all cases. Add Anagathics

3.269.0 - 25 October 2024

Allow medical bills for injuries

3.268.0 - 25 October 2024

Add save and view options, add a free format field

3.267.0 - 24 October 2024

Fix multiple specialisations!

3.266.0 - 21 October 2024

Allow for multiple specialisations

3.265.0 - 18 October 2024

Added the remaining careers (apart from Psion) and the draft

3.264.0 - 12 October 2024

Add the army career

3.263.0 - 06 October 2024

Bug fixes

3.262.0 - 06 October 2024

Add more careers

3.261.0 - 27 September 2024

Add mustering out, export of characters, bug fixes

3.259.0 - 23 September 2024

Initial Version - pre-alpha (no mustering out, connections, end of character or export. Only pre-careers and rogues implements so far

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