04-01-2017, 10:35 PM | #51 | |||
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Yukon, OK
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Physician and Physiology
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Look at this list Physician (First Aid-11, Vet -5) Physiology (Diagnosis, Physician, or Surgery -5) Pharmacy (Physician-5) Surgery (First Aid-12, Physician -5, Physiology -8, Veterinary -8) Diagnosis (First Aid -8, Physician -5, Vet-5) First Aid (Esoteric Medicine, Physician, or Vet-5) No skill defaults to Physiology but all of the medical ones default to Physician. I dont really agree with the perk but if Physiology at 12+ or on a successful roll countered the Physiology penalties it would be worth it in a Space Opera or Sci Fi game with aliens. Maybe even fantasy or games with no aliens if there was a good breakdown of specialties. Even than though I think it should have a little more oomph for a Hard skill. How about acting as a complementary skill to anything that uses it as a default? PS: Resurrected the thread as its better here than a new one. I LIKE the skills of the week and their ilk.
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04-02-2017, 01:43 PM | #52 |
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Physician and Physiology
As mentioned, Physician didn't exist in the low tech levels. Physiology would have though, although the knowledge would have been very different than a modern day version of it. Thus Physiology could have some bang at TL 1-4 especially with knowledge of Biology, or whatever the ancient equivalent of that would be.
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07-13-2017, 02:35 AM | #53 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Physician and Physiology
I spent yesterday afternoon in the emergency room of the local hospital and took the opportunity for a little research into the boundaries between Physician and Surgery. Spoiler for possible Too Much Information about my injury:
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The work was done by one of the duty doctors, rather than a nurse or a physician's assistant. I asked what made it a doctor's work, and it seemed, in GURPS terms, to be because there was a Surgery task to remove the fingernail, rather than just cleaning and stitching. It was pretty simple surgery: probably at +2 or better, given effective local anaesthesia and a well-equipped emergency room.
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