[Basic] Skill of the week: Body Control

[vierasmarius]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

It should be possible to use it for real world "tricks" like raising or lowering your body temperature.
With concentration, I made myself get a fever to get out of going to school. (Yeah, it never occurred to me to just lie.)
But that can be dangerous as I once raised it to 103.

Overall, the skill does need some creative GM-ing to make useful.

In reality that would likely be a technique of Meditation or Autohypnosis. If you can do it without training, it may be a quirk (or Perk, in GURPS terms) of your physiology.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by vierasmarius

In reality that would likely be a technique of Meditation or Autohypnosis. If you can do it without training, it may be a quirk (or Perk, in GURPS terms) of your physiology.

Or Temperature Tolerance: takes time, effectiveness based on margin of success. It has potential to have more usefulness than a perk.