10-22-2018, 06:37 PM | #11 |
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Re: Scavenger diet
Vomiting and diarrhea are life threatening illnesses, particularly in combination. They cause dehydration rapidly leading to death if severe, and if moderate and sustained cause dehydration and weakness leading to loss of condition and death.
In the western world we have lost track of this because of having unlimited clean drinking water on tap. In the developing world diarrhea remains a major killer of children. In wild animals it's just as terrible.
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10-22-2018, 06:54 PM | #12 |
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Re: Scavenger diet
Is it big enough to play the robber or is it the little guy that gets the little crumbs?
Crushing Jaw is a possibility. Scavengers are probably more likely to eat marrow then predators.
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10-22-2018, 07:54 PM | #13 | |
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I meant a single incident of hurling or loose stool. Not severe food poisoning or continuous multi day evacuations.
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10-23-2018, 06:27 AM | #15 |
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Re: Scavenger diet
I'm not sure mushrooms can process non-damaged material. They need a certain amount of breakdown first to "pre-digest" it, so to speak, and then they push the process along with a vengeance.
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10-23-2018, 04:42 PM | #16 | |
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Edit: I see what you mean now. Yes, a creature with CIS on reduced consumption rather than doesn’t eat needs to eat a certain amount of food of sufficient quality. This may be some unrotted meat on a carcass or similar.
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10-23-2018, 04:55 PM | #17 |
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Re: Scavenger diet
My understanding is:
Normal Reduced Consumption: reduces cost and weight of food. Cast Iron Stomach: reduces cost but not weight of food. This might mean some edible food in the mix, particularly at low levels. |
10-23-2018, 09:50 PM | #18 | |
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Generally, predators and scavengers have short digestive tracts and/or highly acidic stomachs which allow them to deal with most of the nasty stuff they eat. They (usually) have an extremely well-developed sense of smell or taste which helps them sort the edible from the inedible and which allows them to detect carrion at a distance. They're also likely to have very well-developed vomit reflexes just in case their sense of smell fails them. In GURPS terms, Reduced Consumption (Cast Iron Stomach), is usually accompanied by Acute Smell/Taste, Discriminatory Smell, Resistance (Food-borne diseases and parasites) (Limitation: Nuisance Effect: Vomiting Required, -10%), and Resistance (Ingested Poisons (Uncommon), Limitation: Nuisance Effect: Vomiting Required, -10%). Generally, the wetter and more neutral in pH a food is, the more vulnerable it is to spoilage. Spoilage is caused by pathogenic bacteria and fungi, which reproduce at mathematically predictable rates based on temperature and initial colony size. Food-borne pathogens usually produce toxins which aren't removed by cooking and which can't be removed from food or drink. The rule of thumb for food safety is that temperatures below 40 *F or above 140 *F (4.5 to 60 *C) are required to keep bacteria and fungi from multiplying to dangerous levels before food can be served or stored. Prepared food left at temperatures above 40 *F or below 140 *F isn't considered unsafe to serve after 2 hours of exposure, although there are exceptions. Halve these times in hot weather, increase them by 50% in cool weather (below ~60 *F/15 *C). Reduce spoilage times to 1/100 at proper storage temperatures unless the food is frozen, boiling, or near boiling (~200 *F/90 *C). To avoid food poisoning roll vs. HT. Failure results in vomiting and/or diarrhea (treat as Moderate Pain and Retching which lasts for 20 - HT hours). Critical failure results in 1d-3 HP of toxic damage and loss of 1 FP due to dehydration. Each doubling of unsafe storage time gives a cumulative -1 penalty to HT rolls, up to a maximum of -10. Roll vs. Smell or Taste -2 with a bonus equal to the HT penalty/3 to detect spoiled food. No penalties apply and you get a bonus equal to the HT penalty if you have Discriminatory Smell or Discriminatory Taste. The Cast Iron Stomach limitation gives you a +10 bonus to avoid food poisoning. If you want levels, use the +3, +8, Immune (or +10) scale used for Resistant. Assume that badly spoiled food (i.e., with a -10 penalty to HT rolls to avoid food poisoning) is obviously spoiled and can be identified as such with a simple Vision roll, or a roll vs. Smell or Taste at +3. It can still be consumed by creatures adapted to eat such foods, but it only has 50-90% of its normal food value due to the effects of bacteria, fungi, and scavengers. Look at food safety info if you want more detailed rules. |
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10-23-2018, 10:06 PM | #19 | ||
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Felines will have Restricted Diet (Obligate Carnivore) which models their relatively inefficient guts and need for high protein diets. Bone-crunching carnivores like hyenas will have increased Biting ST (treat as limited Striking ST) and a Perk (Bone-Crusher) which allows them to safely crew and consume hard naturally-occurring organic materials like bone, horn, or leather. Vultures have a similar Perk (Acidic Digestion) which allows them to ingest and digest hard organic materials as well as anything else which is vulnerable to concentrated stomach acid. UD requires excessive eating time. Most carnivores work on the gobble and go model, since who knows what bigger, meaner carnivore is lurking nearby. I'd model hyena using the perk described above. |
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10-23-2018, 11:53 PM | #20 |
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Re: Scavenger diet
Cats need an amino acid that is almost impossible to find outside of animals, taurine, same goes for an essential fatty acid that most other mammals don't need in their diets.
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