Point costs to “Immunity to Diabetes” & “Immunity to HIV/AIDS”

[WholesomeMadScientist]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

<shrug>Then nobody makes real money. They're too busy being evil for evil's sake.

“With all that money flowing through the ultimate ‘offshore’ account, someone’s going to get greedy – and start killing to cover up his secret.”

Of course somebodies’ is making money, like the U.N. IRL.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Let me narrow it down, then: if the only thing a trait does is give setting color, it does not cost points. If it interacts with points at all, it would be as a quirk, and immunity to diabetes certainly isn't a quirk.

It might be a perk, since it's beneficial. I don't see it as more than a perk.

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by whswhs

It might be a perk, since it's beneficial. I don't see it as more than a perk.

It's not mechanically beneficial. A perk would be gross overcharging for a trait that doesn't do anything.

[Plane]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I'm not sure that "Immunity to Diabetes" is a thing

Can diabetes even exist in animals who have the gene that turns glucose into vitamin C turned on?

[RGTraynor]

Yeah, my vote's for zero. I was diagnosed with diabetes over a decade ago -- and diagnosed a likely candidate for it a decade before that. While I've had long term effects, such as worsening eyesight, slower healing and gradually increasing neuropathy in my feet, I can't say that I've suffered from anything worth as much as -5 worth of disad. * Over the course of my lifetime, sure, I'd have paid a point for Immunity to Diabetes, but I'd have paid a good bit more to have robust knees, which have been bothering the eff out of me for decades, or Immunity to Fibromyalgia, which has plagued me for twenty years.

In the timeframe of an average adventurer? No.


* Granted, I'm a type II. Type I is obviously considerably more serious, and disad worthy.

[Donny Brook]

I don't think immunity to diabetes would really apply in a game. It's not really something that a PC is at risk of randomly catching. It's more like the opposite is what would be stat-able. IE , Susceptible (Diabetes).

[mr beer]

I'd make Immunity to Diabetes a Feature, you don't really contract diabetes.

Immunity to HIV would be a Perk in most campaigns I'd run, if relevant. I guess if we were playing 1980s Sex Workers then I would probably up it to [5].

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by mr beer

I'd make Immunity to Diabetes a Feature, you don't really contract diabetes.

Immunity to HIV would be a Perk in most campaigns I'd run, if relevant. I guess if we were playing 1980s Sex Workers then I would probably up it to [5].

Frankly, 1980s sex workers are probably the only context in which it's worth considering - even for cops who might be faced with the bodily fluids of all sorts of disease factories, there are a wide range of other, more transmissible diseases that are probably a bigger problem. HIV is the big name, but things like late model editions of hepatitis are probably the bigger killers.