02-16-2020, 07:56 AM | #1 |
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[Action] Medic lacks Physiology
The Medic in Action 1 (p. 13) lacks Physiology. In our reality, of course, doctors spend long hours learning anatomy and physiology. Is this an erratum or a concession to action-movie reality?
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02-16-2020, 08:04 AM | #2 |
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Re: [Action] Medic lacks Physiology
It's not on the Suitable Skills list either, so I think we can reasonably consider this to be the latter.
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02-16-2020, 08:59 AM | #3 |
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Re: [Action] Medic lacks Physiology
Maybe the Physiology skill doesn't exist in Action! settings?
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02-16-2020, 09:09 AM | #4 |
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Re: [Action] Medic lacks Physiology
I have never understood what the skill actually does. So at the least, it probably could be dumped for streamlining sake.
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02-16-2020, 09:43 AM | #5 |
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Re: [Action] Medic lacks Physiology
RAW, Physiology is the skill that eliminates the penalties for attending to an alien species… but there's no penalty for attending to your own species, so you only need it in a science-fiction (or fantasy) campaign. So, yeah, action movie realism.
(In my house rules, I instead use specialization-by-species for medical skills, and a "Xenobiology" technique to buy down the "similar physiology" penalty. Physiology skill itself becomes merely another optional specialization of Biology.) |
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Re: [Action] Medic lacks Physiology
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Folding it into Biology does, of course, have some merit.
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02-16-2020, 01:05 PM | #7 |
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Re: [Action] Medic lacks Physiology
Do medics study anatomy and physiology in such detail? I thought that basic MOS training for a medic took only about fourteen weeks, whereas basic medical training takes about six years.
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02-16-2020, 01:10 PM | #8 |
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Re: [Action] Medic lacks Physiology
Good point. I was thinking of doctors. But surely they must spend 200 hours on it?
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02-16-2020, 01:24 PM | #9 |
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Re: [Action] Medic lacks Physiology
Doctors, probably, considering that what GURPS calls "Physiology" seems to include the complementary subject of anatomy. Medics, no. Medics' entire training (before specialising) is probably less than six hundred hours, and they have to learn to actually do stuff, not just understand one branch of biology.
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