The GURPS Meta-Tech Hype Thread

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Christopher R. Rice

As a huge fan of Futurama I resisted very hard (and successfully!) adding notes for that form of drug.

Hmmm... on the one hand, the inconvenience of application (for most drugs, you can remove a face mask or use a feeding port and swallow them; injectables you can expose a little skin or use a built-in injection port; suppositories you've typically got to drop your pants) would be worth a price reduction, while the reduced time to have an effect (suppositories get into the bloodstream a lot faster) would be worth a price increase, provided you maintained there being a delay before the drugs start working. It might ultimately work out to +0 CF. I don't know how accurate the joke of the overly-large pill being a suppository is (Futurama certainly isn't the first to make the "I can't swallow that," "That's fine, it's a suppository" joke), but if it is (or if you decide it is for your campaign, as would be appropriate for a more comedic one), that would mean the size of the item can be larger, for a price reduction.

Great, now you have me tempted to create Farnsworth's Anti-Pressure pills once Meta-Tech comes out. As those allowed the crew to survive the ocean depths, they probably at least grant Pressure Support 2 (which GURPS notes is sufficient to survive most of the ocean depths). They are apparently around the size of a goose egg, which are 3" to 4.5" long and should have a +1 to SM for being ovaloid, for net SM -6.