GURPS Star Trekking - Help? Assistance?

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Since it seems germane to Qoltar's original request:

Klingon (Qo’nos, Class M, B Quadrant) (68 points)
Aggressive honor-driven warrior aliens. 5’4” to 7’0”, 130-350 lbs.

Attributes: ST: +1 [10]; DX: +0 [0]; IQ: +0 [0]; HT: +1 [10]. +20

Optional Attributes: Increased ST [10/lvl]; Increased DX [20/lvl]; Increased HT [10/lvl].

Secondary Characteristics: HP: +2 [4]; FP: +2 [6]. +10

Optional Secondary Characteristics: Increased HP [2/lvl]; Increased Basic Speed [5/lvl]; Increased Will [5/lvl]; Increased FP [3/lvl].

Advantages: Acute Taste and Smell 1 [2]; Acute Vision 1 [2]; Damage Resistance 1 (Limitation: Tough Skin, -40%) [3]; Damage Resistance 2 (Limitations: Tough Skin (Inflexible), -20%; Partial (Skull and Spinal Column Only), -60%) [2]; Damage Resistance 3 (Limitations: Ablative, -80%, Limited (Brain, Torso, and Vitals Only), -20%) [3].

Extended Lifespan 1 [2]; Fearlessness 2 [4]; Fit [5]; Hard to Kill 1 [2]; Hard to Subdue 1 [2]; High Pain Threshold [10]; Rapid Healing [5]; Resistance (+3, Disease) [5]; Resistance (+3, Poison) [5]; Sharp Teeth [1]. +51

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There's a peculiar rules element that makes it possible for Longevity to replace Extended Lifespan 1 and still see the lifespans seen in Klingon characters in DS(. There's a clause in the Aging rules on p.444 where _if_ you have Longevity and your adjsut hT is 17+ only rolls of 18 fail (and **** as normal rather thna Crit fails)..

This doesn't come up much until you see whoel populations (alien of gene-mod humans) with Longevity and high mods to HT for Aging (TL-3 mostly bt also Fit)..

Assuming a TL of 11^ that's a mod of +8 and even a bog-standard human with HT 10 has failed only 1 Aging roll for each attribute at age 87 (54 rolls for eah attribute) i.e. he fails only on 17s or 18s though these do count as crit fails and cost him 2 pts.Possibly relevant to the Picard series.

An alien race with the same TL but Longevity and +1 HT and Fit probably hasn't lost any Attribute pts at 87. They lose only 1 pt out of 216 Aging rolls. They might start slowing down a little (1p) by age 102 but probably don't start losing pt number 2 until after age 125.

So the very gray but still hearty Klingons (Kang, Kor and Kolos?) seen on DS( at ages that must have been in their 140s might have gotten there jsut with Longevity rather than needing Extended Lifespan..

This has been only a technical note on the possibilities inherant but perhaps not obvious in the Aging rules. I don't want to start a big kerfluffle.