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01-02-2018, 02:47 PM | #53 |
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If only she hasnīt invented the cancer cure already*
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You are much more likely to give yourself cancer with somatic gene-hacking, then you are to give yourself some impossible-to-quantify advantage and you simply can't raise attributes or give yourself clear GURPS advantages (with some rare exceptions involving single allele changes to small population tissues most of which are probably Perks), because that is just how gene-expression works. No future technology, short of the ability to rebuild entire tissues and organs from stem cells, or some kind of nanotechnological reconstruction, will change this. Quote:
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As a trivial example, the eight or so genes associated with height are present in the tallest people, on average, but there exist people who are very tall who lack all of them and people who are shorter than average who have most of them. That would also be of significant interest to oncologists. Although the medical profession tends to shut out people who experiment on themselves, so she isn't probably winning accolades. The late Henry Heimlich was the household name inventor of two significant life-saving technologies, and was a pariah in medical research because of his later work in deliberately infecting children with malaria. Realistically, your character might end up like him. However the cure for this kind of cancer is almost certainly repairing the damage you did in the first place. So now she has Dependency for whatever protein she screwed up expression for, instead of Terminally Ill, and still no superhuman traits. And if she turned nearly her entire liver, for example, cancerous at once, with retroviral treatments, she is just dead. Realistically, though, there is no one "cure" for all cancer, and one person is unlikely to be the sole discoverer of any cancer treatment, since these are incremental technologies that improve as our understanding of the underlying molecular biology improves. Last edited by sir_pudding; 01-02-2018 at 03:56 PM. |
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01-02-2018, 03:51 PM | #56 |
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Really, to me, the question for all of this is, what narrative purpose is the character in questions supposed to serve? Why do you want a character with those astonishing gifts and qualities? Will their presence make the campaign more fun for the players, and if so, how?
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01-02-2018, 03:53 PM | #57 | |
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01-02-2018, 04:15 PM | #58 | |
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If you want exceptional real world characters, go ahead and build them. If you want some basis for calculating how many points to use and you like Back to School, go ahead and use it. If you want a way to model realistic long-term training which reliably produces 1,000 point people, you may be out of luck. |
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01-02-2018, 04:16 PM | #59 |
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I just want to be able to point at some hystorical character and say: "See, she is just another (insert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Shakespeare, Mozzart)..." and I want them to be able to repeat her extraordinary feats if they want.
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01-02-2018, 04:18 PM | #60 |
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Realism may mean "not silly or supernatural enough to break suspension of disbelief" more than how some of us may otherwise define the word.
But seeing as how incredibly subjective that is, I don't see how our opinions would or should matter or even help much.
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