On 10/2/22 17:40, Timothy Collinson - timothy.collinson at port.ac.uk
(via tml list) wrote:
> <snip>
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>     Well, firstly, my answer depends on _which_ MTU you're talking about.
>
>     Naturallyverse - GT , c 1130s/1140s Imperial, so Imperium Eternal
>     (I think).
>
>     The broad-spectrum panimmunity gubbins that Collision mentioned are
>     cheap and widely available, thanks to
>
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>
> Ummm, kind though it is of you to credit me with knowing anything
> about the subject (or even about the GURPS reference which I'd long
> since forgotten about) (I really must sit down and read all the GURPS
> books again), it was Thomas who mentioned this.

You still mentioned it in this particular thread, thus the credit.

G3: Space mentions three differing grades of panimmunity (TLs are G3
TLs, and dice rolls are 3d6 equal to or below target - average HT of Joe
Shmuckatelli is 10):

TL9 - +3 to HT rolls to resist disease (TTL9) - Joe would be rolling 13
or under.

TL10 - +8 to HT rolls to resist disease (TTL12) - Joe would be rolling
16 or under (since 17 is always a failure in GURPS, and 18 is always a
critfail)

TL12 - Immunity To Disease, The Advantage (TTL15) - Joe would be
pointing and laughing at disease(s) in question.

G4 Basic Set: Characters has the same bonii listed.

I wonder at what TTL does the panimmunity treatment become outright blue
goo (eg, wet nanomachines) that goes into the pink goo? (HUMENS! And
Henry Freeman...)

>
> In my ignorance this would be my take.  Yes, probably by then the
> things we know now would be protected against or have been eradicated
> (smallpox?).  But there would be some 57th century equivalent doing
> something similar. Because I can't invent/imagine it and would have
> difficulty in any case describing it to players, I couch it in terms
> of something that's familiar to us all now.
>
> A bit like I might use a language pun knowing full well that "English"
> isn't what's used then but the *equivalent* is.  (For very loose
> definitions of equivalent.)
>
> tc

If stupid, but works, is it stupid?

Alex