Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

Not sweating won't help if your clothes stink from all remnants of the outside.

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

I'm not sure why quoted me?

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

It'll make it somewhat less offensive and you can quickly change clothes while bathing often takes more time.

I'd imagined some forms of SM don't mean you don't sweat (which could be debilitating) but your skin lacks of the microbes and your sweat the chemicals that give it an offensive odor (or contain something that neutralizes them).

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

Sweat still stinks over time. It's only human pit and crotch sweat that promotes ultra stinky communicative odors.
Cinematic perks usually have unrealistic aspects.

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

Because you brought up supplies used during menses. At least a few types of those are TL1 or so, but High-Tech doesn't go into that detail (not sure about Low-Tech; Bio-Tech has a Perk, which is a different matter), and some people (particularly some of those who grew up in the USSR) think those were only invented in the late late 1980s.
Thus my comment on 'etc.' in the grooming kit, which includes an assortment of other stuff.

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

Apparently not if you have Sanitized metabolism.

Not in my experience. Those are the worst but sweaty people get funky after awhile particularly in close quarters even if the take a "Whore's Baths" and hit the the worst spots The microbes on the skin that promote body odor are everywhere but they're densest under the arms, the crotch and feet (moist and little light) but form everywhere and can cluster in some odd places like behind the ears, at the hairline, behind the knees or under folds of fat (or your breasts if well endowed). And some sweat odor comes from the perspiration itself. Generally, (to me) the smell is a little different more sour and musky than the flat our rank funk of underarm and other sweat BO but still unpleasant to be around for very long.

Goes without saying. :)

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

Ah okay. I admit I was defaulting to a "D and D" type environment not something modern or futuristic. Not sure why I do that. I haven't even played D and D much at all for decades.

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

You know, your post (and a few others) have got me thinking...

What if we grant everyone a +1 reaction bonus if they make a point out of "cleaning up." Right? Like your character has freshly showered and is wearing fresh clothes and put on a bit of deo, brushed their teeth, etc. You might give them a +1 under those circumstances, provided it's appropriate to the circumstances. That seems like a reasonable course of action, if a bit of a simplification.

Sanitized Metabolism, then, becomes a sort of exotic version of a SOP: "Assume I am always clean." The character always gets the +1 in circumstances where being well-groomed and freshly bathed would apply a +1, even if they wouldn't have access to the materials needed to clean themselves (because they are naturally clean and pleasant smelling).

I think I could run it that way.

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

I'm playing a first ed game right now so it's freshest in my mind. But you're right that modern/scifi games tend to have better hygiene. Which fits with gritty realism but not the cinematic Orlando Bloomesque elven experience many of my players visualize.

That's how I use it already. I suppose you could give people a -1 unless they washed up immediately before, but as a rule I'm against Advantages that introduce new penalties or perils and then you buy the advantage to exempt yourself out. The way you wrote it seems perfect.

Re: [SE] Sanitized Metabolism: how useful is +1 in in 'close confines', like 'elevato
 

[QUOTE=Flyndaran;1850735Cinematic perks usually have unrealistic aspects.[/QUOTE]

This one isn't even cinematic, it is exotic. So allowing it for a human in even a cinematic campaign wouldn't be the norm. I remember this as a full on Advantage in 3e, first seeing it in Bio-Tech (I think). Doesn't mean that is where it first showed up, just where I first remember seeing it.