| From: | zmjett@***.net (zmjett@***.net) |
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| Subject: | Practice SR4 Characters/Allergies |
| Date: | Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:01:06 -0500 |
to bee stings.
Unfortunately, the game collapsed before I got to introduce the bee
spirits. Ah well. But I was quite entertained when he showed up at a
meet in a greenhouse and discovered that there were indeed bees present.
To his credit, he roleplayed terror quite well every time I made
menacing buzzing sounds in his ear.
Or maybe it was just the way I giggled that frightened him. >.>
Hayfever can be pretty evil though, sometimes it's a rude awakening to
people who think "oh, easy points". If the GM is willing and able to
enforce the phlegmy horror, at least. Your eyes burn and water, you're
sneezing, sniffling, dripping a veritable river of clear snot, sore
throat from sneezing so much and post-nasal drip. Your hearing is
blocked up, your head feels like it's full of concrete, and you can
sometimes hit chains of ten or twelve body-wracking sneezes in a row (my
record is 17 sneezes with almost enough time to breathe in between)
My players know better than to take hayfever as an allergy, needless to
say, after seeing me in the throes of a flare-up. Nothing like an
unexpected bout of uncontrollable sneezing to mess up your called shot.
Or your attempt to sneak past those guards through the nice manicured
garden lawn of that corporate research compound...
--VMisery
>>> Allergy (Mild, Hayfever): +5 BP
>>
>> Hayfever? Why exactly do you think this is significant and worth points?
>>
>
> If your hayfever is bad enough, it's definatly worth points. I have
> been in the situation where my hayfever made me sneeze so much that I
> could not drive safely, my nose ran so much that I was going through
> as many as 6 boxes of kleenex (100 sheets each) a day, and being sent
> home from work. Basically, all I was able to do was sneeze, blow my
> nose, and type two or three words at a time.
> Since then, I've found better allergy meds, so now I only get days
> like that 2-3 times a year (originally 3-4 days a month), and I would
> expect that for most people in SR, those meds would be farely easily
> available.
>
> If one of my PCs, or a PC in my game wanted to get points for this
> allery, I would expect them to be carrying/wearing a breather in any
> non-climate controlled enviroment, and caring a pocket full of
> tablets/sprays/drops just in case. Most days they would be OK, but
> every now and again it would just flare up some in spite of all their
> precautions.
>
