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LINGUISTICS CHART Relationship Difficulty Different dialect of known languag 3 Language is derived a common source (e.G., Understanding 10 spanish if you understand french) Completely foreign language (e.G., Chinese to english) 13 Alien language (e.G., Language from another cosm) 22* *Note that many of the cosms in the possibility wars have languages similar to languages in core earth, in which case one of the other relationships should be used instead of this one. The success level of the linguistics skill check will tell how much is understood. Minimal success means that only basic concepts are communicated. A superior or better success allows the linguist to completely understand what is being said. Communicating back to the other person will depend on their linguistics skill though! Medicine Use: Unskilled use penalized. Macro skill. May be used in round play as per first aid. Sample specializations: Family medicine, trauma, surgery, specific field of medical study (diseases, drugs, heart, lungs, etc.), alternative styles of medicine (acupuncture, herbal medicine, etc.). Axiom: Social 10 and Tech 8 Medicine is used to help a damaged character recover and heal from her physical injuries. Its can represent a wide range of medical treatments, ranging from traditional “western” treatments, acupuncture, herbal medicine, or other similar treatments for the sick or injured. It can also be used in place of the first aid skill for quick treatment of injuries. In play medicine has two primary uses. The first is to help injured characters heal physical damage faster. The second is to surgically implant cyberware. Medicine cannot be used to aid in the recovery of mental or spiritual damage. When a player is allowed to make a recovery check (see Chapter Four) to see if her character heals wound damage, if the character has been under medical care a medicine roll is first made by the character with the medicine skill. The difficulty of this check depends on the injuries of the recovering character: MEDICINE CHART Wound level Difficulty # Wound 10 Heavy wound 12 Mortal 15 The Tech axiom of the medical equipment available to the healer may aid in the injured character’s recovery, though depending on Chapter Three: Attributes and Skills the type of injury and the type of treatment being administered, such as with most alternative forms of medicine, the Tech axiom may not have that much of a bearing. For Tech axioms less than 19, the difficulty of the medicine skill check is increased by +5. At Tech axioms 19 and 20 the difficulty is increased by +2. For Tech axioms between 24 and 26 the difficulty is reduced by -2 and for Tech axioms above 26 the difficulty is lowered by -5. If the medicine skill check is successful, it is treated like a power push (see Chapter Four again) and the power push result is added as a bonus to the injured character’s recovery check. If the check is not successful, the injured character makes a normal recovery check - there is no penalty for a failed medicine check. Only one medicine check may be made per day on a character Example: Quin took a wound in a confrontation with a mummy in the Nile Empire. He visits Dr. Throckton’s clinic in Cairo. Throckton rolls poorly on the first day, giving Quin no benefit but at least no penalty. Quin fails his recovery check for that day. The next day Dr. Throckton rolls well and succeeds. The power push is calculated off of his result and Quin receives a +3 bonus to his next recovery check. For rules concerning the use of medicine to implant cyberware, see the Cyberpapacy Sourcebook or the Tharkold Sourcebook. Meditation Use: May not be used unskilled. Macro skill. Sample specializations: None. Axiom: Social 12 and Spirit 7 A character with the meditation skill has gained complete control over her mind and body, and has the ability to enter a meditative trance. Meditative trances provide several useful benefits for a character. Entering a trance requires complete concentration by the character and takes approximately fifteen minutes. Under normal conditions a skill check is not required to enter a trance. If the character is in a stressful situation or nervous, entering a trance requires a meditation skill check against a difficulty of 8. If the character is in a violent situation where he might be in danger, the difficulty is increased to 13. Once in a trance, there are three possible effects that the character can use. Each effect has to be used individually, if the character wishes to use more than one of the effects she will have to come out the trance after using the first effect and then go into a second trance to use the second effect. The first possible effect is to allow the character to use her meditation skill in place of her Perception or Mind attribute to solve a puzzle or problem. If the problem is something that would fall 63
TORG: Revised and Expanded Rulebook under a skill with a penalty for unskilled use, the penalty is applied to the difficulty number when the character uses her meditation skill to try and solve it. If it falls under a skill that cannot be used unskilled, meditation cannot be used to try and solve it. Example: Yukitada has become lost in the Living Land. Normally in this situation the direction sense skill is used. Yukitada does not have direction sense though and would use her Perception of 9. But Yukitada’s meditation skill value is 11. By entering a trance and contemplating her situation, she gets to use the skill value of 11 instead of the attribute of 9 and has a slightly better chance of success. The second possible effect is to slow the character’s metabolic rate, reducing the need to eat, drink and breathe. A character can enter a trance and remain in the trance for a number of days equal to her base meditation skill value. She does not need food or water while in the trance, though she will be hungry and thirsty when she comes out of the trance, and still needs to breathe. The character must eat and drink after coming out of the trance before she can use meditation again. A meditating character can also reduce her body’s need for oxygen, but not to the same extent. By entering a trance, the character is able to add her skill adds of meditation to the time value of the available air supply to determine how long the air will last for the character. Example: Yukitada has been locked in an airtight cell that has only fifteen minutes of breathable air in it. Fifteen minutes is a time value of 15. Yukitada has +1 adds in meditation which means if she enters a trance the air will last for a time value of (15 + 1) 16, which is 25 minutes. Not much more time, but hopefully enough for Yukitada’s friends to find her. The third possible effect is to speed up the character’s metabolism to facilitate faster healing. While in the meditative trance the character will heal shock damage and KO conditions at twice the 64 normal rate. If the character meditates for at least three hours, wound damage heals twice as fast as well. After coming out of the trance the character will be hungry and thirsty and will need to eat and drink before being able to use meditation again. See Chapter Four for the normal rules concerning healing rates. Mindsense Use: Cannot be used unskilled. Macro skill. Sample specializations: none Axiom: Social 17 and Spirit 9. Mindsense is an advanced and specialized form of meditation used to overcome the inner pain caused by mental damage. In this regard it is similar to the resist pain skill, though it works a bit differently. A character that has suffered mental damage must enter a meditative trance, as outlined in the meditation skill, and remain in the trance for at least ten minutes per mental wound received. At the end of the trance, the character generates a mindsense skill total and compares it to his Mind attribute. The result points are read as a power push (see Chapter Four) with that result indicating the number of mental wounds whose effects the character can temporarily ignore. The damage is not removed; the character just doesn’t feel the effects of it. The character may ignore the effects of this amount of damage for a number of hours equal to the number of adds the character has in mindsense. If the character takes any additional mental damage during that period, the effects of mindsense end immediately. Nile Engineering Use: Cannot be used unskilled. Macro skill. Specializations: Pyramids, tombs, temples, trap detection Reality: Nile Empire Characters with this skill are experts in the magical engineering techniques of the Nile Empire. In combination with an appropriate magic skill (alteration magic, apportation magic, conjuration
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