| From: | "Steven A. Collins" <scollins@**.UML.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Viral diseases |
| Date: | Thu, 24 Jul 1997 10:42:37 -0400 |
->Gurth wrote:
->| How many times do PCs or important NPCs get infected by a disease in SR
->| anyway? Because that's the only time this sort of info will come in handy.
Well after a recent run in with a Toxic Shaman associated with
Winternight, where they were not to hiding their interferrence in
his plans to well half, the party was infected with a super flu that
the shaman was developing. it resulted in 1 death, and laying 4 others
up in the hospital for varying ammounts of time. the longest being the
Troll samuari, 7 months, and the shortest being Spiderman the human
Physad who was in the hospital for only 2 months. The rest of the
party did manage to kill the guy off though, now if they could only
get the rest of the guy's Winternight cell off their backs{BEGMG}.
->| The only game I've seen that really attempts to cover diseases in depth is
->| Twilight: 2000, but given the background of the game it makes sense to
->| give players a very real chance of infection with diseases like dysentery,
->| cholera, typhoid fever, and several other nice things (hmm... I just
->| noticed it lacks sexually transmitted diseases, which should also be
->| a very real threat in that game, IMHO...).
True sexually xmitted diseases should be a real concern for characters
living low lifestyles or less but I try to keep most aspects of
sexuality out of my game. The reason, as the GM i just can't
realistically roleplay a woman who the character is trying to "score"
with.
>>snip EGM ideas and twilight 2000 stuff<<
->up :) And don't forget the paranormal critters that transmit VITAS
->(some sort of mutant flamingo?, I can't remember at the moment).
It's called a boorobie and there are a few others as well the Greater
wolverine i believe is one.
