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Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Proposal : Neater Surgery

[ New player Bluebottle expressed some confusion over how modification worked - here's an attempt to reword the relevant rule for clarity.

And while we're here, let's replace the "voluntary subject" rule with the assumption that anyone in the Lab wants to be operated upon; having to keep an eye on random comments to see who's asked to be modified isn't really working very well.

(Oh, and I'm also assuming that surgery can't decrease attributes, at least for now... Under the current wording, it's arguable that an INT 0 surgeon can slice anyone's attributes back down to zero.) ]


Reword the Rule 13 (Experimental Modification) to:-

The Doctor wishes to "experiment" to test several modifications on different Specimens, and to encourage Specimens to operate on one another. Possible modifications include, but are not limited to: replacing limbs with animal limbs or mechanical (clockwork) ones or adding new limbs; skin replacement; adding claws/fangs; etc.

If a Specimen is in the Lab, it may attempt to modify any other Specimen that's also in the Lab (other than the Doctor) - the operator is known as the Surgeon, and the Specimen being modified is the Subject.

Modification consists of the Surgeon choosing an Attribute in the Subject which is lower than the Surgeon's INT, and incrementing it. The descriptive nature of the surgery should be noted in the Subject's "Modifications" and the Subject's life drained according to the extent of the work:- The life drained is equal to 8X-4Y, where X is the new level of the attribute being modified, and Y is the INT of the Specimen performing the experiment. (If less than 4 Life would be drained, 4 Life is drained instead.)


(If the proposal "Where am I, anyway?" failed, replace "If a Specimen is in the Lab, it may attempt to modify any other Specimen that's also in the Lab" with "Any Specimen may attempt to modify any other Specimen".)

And remove the dusty old "Specimens other than the Doctor are known as Subjects." sentence from the Ruleset, as the term's already being used in other contexts.

Enacted by Squirrel, 22nd Oct.