GURPS - Compendium 1..

No Physical Body
-100 points
You have no limbs, sense organs, cardiovascular or gastrointestinal
systems, etc. You are a disembodied brain, and all sensory
input must be provided through psi abilities or hard-wired in.
Your brain tissue must be supported by an artificial nutrient
system. This costs $250,000, plus $10,000/month in maintenance
at TL8 (halve costs at TL9 and again at TL 10). Weight is
200 pounds and volume 0.2 cubic yards. If such a system exists in
a late TL7 world, increase space, cost and weight by a factor of
ten or more.
You have no Strength attribute; you do have a Dexterity
attribute which comes into play if you learn a Physical skill,
such as Driving, for exercise by remote control. Your physical
brain has a HT attribute (for rolls against shock, etc.) but one
point of actual damage will render you unconscious and two or
more points will kill you. Your life support system may have
armor, however.
Although you have no Strength, you have Fatigue points
equal to your IQ - these are used to calculate Fatigue loss from
magic or psi abilities or attacks such as Mental Blow, and to
measure psychic stress. Recovery rules apply normally.
You have no glands, and therefore you feel no strong emotions.
Lust, bloodlust, terror and excitement ... all are lost to
you. You make all Fright Checks at +5, and ignore any physical
result of a failed Fright Check (read down the chart to the first
applicable mental result). You can still feel intellectual emotions,
like reasonable fear, cold hatred, friendship and greed.
Squeamish people and necrophobes
must make Fright
Checks when seeing you; they
must check at +2 if they just talk to
you on the telephone or via
telepathy, if they know or guess
what you are. Most strangers,
except doctors, react to you at -1
when meeting you in person.
You may have any kind of psi
abilities (making you a "psiborg"),
and may be attached to
any kind of psionic device that
can use a psiberface system. Psi
drugs may be rigged to drip into
your nutrient fluid, wit h normal
effects. Through telepathy, you
could come to experience another's
emotions or see through
their minds. Astral Projection
could give you a kind of mobility.
It would be up to the GM
whether your astral form is the
body you had (if any) or that of a
brain (with or without an image of
the life support system).
If the cybernetic technology is
up to it, you may possess an
interface jack that enables you to be
hooked up to computers, voice
synthesizers, sensors,
communication systems, or the
like - see GURPS Cyberpunk and
Ultra-Tech.
Prefrontal Lobotomy - 15
points
This is treated as a mental disadvantage; see p. 93.
Quadriplegic
-50 points
You are paralyzed in both arms and both legs, or possibly
you lack limbs entirely - you can't move without assistance. If
you have cybernetic replacement limbs, you can't have this disadvantage!
A quadriplegic may start with a DX and ST of 6
without this counting against his disadvantage total - anything
below this counts, however. (For instance, the point difference
between DX 5 and DX 6 is 10 points, so DX 5 would count as -
10 points of disadvantage.)
Quadriplegics can be good netrunners (with the appropriate
voice-controlled equipment), mages (with high enough skill) or
psis. Such characters may have the Delusion that cyberspace,
the astral plane or some other realm that their abilities allow
them to visit is the only "reality," and will never willingly leave!
Reduced Hit Points
-5 points/level
In a realistic campaign, the GM may wish to limit characters to
a certain number of Reduced Hit Points; three or four levels are
reasonable.
You can take less damage than a normal human of your HT.
Hit Points are initially equal to HT, so a character with HT 12
could lower his Hit Point total to
10 as a -10-point disadvantage.
This would be written as HT
12/10. All rolls versus HT are
still made against his health of 12.
Only damage is subtracted from 10.
Very small races often have
this disadvantage.
If the Stun Damage optional
rule is in effect, Stun is based on
hit points, not basic HT.
See Compendium II, pp.
152-154, for special rules that
apply to characters whose HT is
not equal to their Hit Points.
Reduced Manual
Dexterity
-3 points/level
Each level of this disadvantage
gives you a -1 to DX, or IQ in
some cases, but only on tasks
requiring fine motor skills. This
skill would hinder an attempt to
repair a watch, for example, but
not Combat/Weapon skills or
Dodge.
Reduced Move
-5 points/point of
Move
At the GM's option, this disadvantage
may be permitted
even in realistic campaigns to
represent "generic" disorders
that affect the legs. See p. 103.
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