06-12-2019, 06:56 PM | #101 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
Discovering that you (the PC) are a "Typhoid Mary" and the biotec corporation that created you now needs to kill you and destroy all trace of you or be destroyed by lawsuits would make and epic suspense scenario.
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06-12-2019, 06:57 PM | #102 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
Good one. And tricky to deal with medically.
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07-07-2019, 08:35 AM | #103 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
Some quirks and perks might be built into a bioroid either to make them more tractable or passive. Pheromones are unlikely for certain mammals can imprint on a scent. Some scientists think that species that mate for life are cases of this.
A pleasure bioroid who is designed to fall for you, but otherwise acts as a normal person, would find an enthusiastic market.
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07-30-2019, 06:57 PM | #104 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
How would having a cartilage skeleton like a shark work for a bioroid. What advantages and problems would you get.
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07-30-2019, 08:16 PM | #105 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
Probably poorly for large land animals, cartilage just isn't as strong as bone.
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07-31-2019, 07:31 AM | #106 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
And cartilage would make a poor skull. Still, cartilage is flexible and that came come in handy. Cartilage finger bones might explain higher manual dexterity in certain limited areas.
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07-31-2019, 05:25 PM | #107 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
Echinoderms like sea cucumbers have catch collagen allowing them to rapidly, as in seconds to minutes, liquify their skeleton only to resolidify it usually to better wedge into hiding places.
That should work as a good rationale for inhuman levels of slow flexibility.
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08-01-2019, 01:08 AM | #108 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
You would lose a lot of grip strength without fairly rigid bones to act as levers.
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08-04-2019, 07:43 PM | #109 |
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Re: Bio-tech related Quirks and Perks
I'm rereading a Heinlein novel, "Orphans of the Sky." What kind of perks would aid you in not becoming nauseous or dizzy in microgravity. I know most folks adapt quickly ( although "groundhog" in Heinlein's terms would be a nasty quirk) but how would instant or near instant adaptation be described as a Perk or Advantage. Myself I see it as a perk except in unusual campaigns.
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