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borithan · 01-20-2011, 05:16 AM

Both the Star Trek rulesets I have seen give Klingons High Pain Threshold (or similar). Now, I accept that you may not want to include it, and of course different rulesets mean different things when they say that, so they may not qualify for the Gurps one. In Decipher and Last Unicorn's sets there was no Shock, but increasingly damaged characters suffered penalties, so I guess represented more an ability to resist the pain of a wound already suffered, rather than the initial shock from a hit.

Both systems also suggested that Klingons at the very least recover from being stunned by a phaser more quickly than humans, cutting the stunned time to 25-33% of the human norm. Can't remember if there is any explicit evidence in the series though, aside from the fact that they are meant to be 'ard (but are turned into the punch bags of whichever badass of the week comes along).

I would also argue for any non-warriors to suffer some minor social stigma.

01-20-2011, 05:16 AM	#9
borithan Join Date: Oct 2010	Re: [Star Trek] Klingon Template Both the Star Trek rulesets I have seen give Klingons High Pain Threshold (or similar). Now, I accept that you may not want to include it, and of course different rulesets mean different things when they say that, so they may not qualify for the Gurps one. In Decipher and Last Unicorn's sets there was no Shock, but increasingly damaged characters suffered penalties, so I guess represented more an ability to resist the pain of a wound already suffered, rather than the initial shock from a hit. Both systems also suggested that Klingons at the very least recover from being stunned by a phaser more quickly than humans, cutting the stunned time to 25-33% of the human norm. Can't remember if there is any explicit evidence in the series though, aside from the fact that they are meant to be 'ard (but are turned into the punch bags of whichever badass of the week comes along). I would also argue for any non-warriors to suffer some minor social stigma.