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08-02-2014, 08:49 AM | #22 | |
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So if you are suffering a Heart Attack in GURPS, it's because your small-h heart attack was severe enough to kill you if you don't get outside intervention. It's like failing a death check - fail it, and what happened was enough to kill you. Make it, and it wasn't. In this case, Lee suffered some ill effects in game terms, but made his roll against getting the Heart Attack condition, which would have killed him had he missed it.
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08-02-2014, 11:57 AM | #23 | |
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08-04-2014, 09:48 AM | #24 |
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Re: [DF][GM Advice] Heart Attacks
The GURPS heart attack affliction is "Your heart stops and you die unless resuscitated." That's the definition. I'm not up on my medical terminology, but I believe it would be a "type 3 myocardial infarction." Heart attacks less severe than that aren't the heart attack mortal condition . . . they're more like the "mild heart attack or stroke" you get from result 32 on the Fright Check table (p. B361), or the FP loss resulting from Cardiac Stress (Bio-Tech, p. 215).
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