Medical Conditions Mechanic

[Strider]

I've just done a quick 'medical condition' search and didn't find anything. My lukewarm apologies to those applicable if this has already been suggested.

 

The Idea

 

Some players/or NPC's could start with a medical condition. This could require specialist medicine or equipment to prevent them from behaving irrationally/violently or from plain old fashioned dying.

 

Context

 

For those that have played the excellent The Walking Dead by TellTale games will know exactly what I mean.

The character 'Larry' suffers from vagina angina. I'll leave you to research the condition yourself. I'd recommend the game and it would also give you a good idea as to how it effects the group.

 

The Mechanic

 

With players it could lead to you having to foray outside of your comfort zone in order to acquire the medicine you or an NPC require. The medicine may be finite allowing for other tensions to develop within the group of players or NPC's.

[dra6o0n]

Except in this case the characters you make are NOT random. And as such makes no sense to start off with medical conditions.

Maybe you'd like that, but other players don't see the same views as you.

Multiplayer will eventually give you character generation with RANDOM profession starting kits... Not random traits and health issues.

[DragonJockey]

"Asthma"

(Getting tired from running very quickly and need of inhalers on a daily basis = +9 points?)

Inhaler is a rare loot for houses and common loot for medical buildings

 

"AIDS"

(Since your immunity system is not working even a scratch has %100 chance of zombification = +8 points?)

 

"Diabetes"

(You cant eat certain foods. = +5 points?)

 

"Alcholic"

(Lack of alcohol gives you some bad moodles, maybe even hallucinations? = +5 points?)

 

These are some suggestions i just thought. Adding medical conditions as bad traits. Seems realistic to me and needs so little work to be implemented. (Just inhaler and rest of it is a few coding, hallucinations would be a bit harder tho. But right now unhappiness moddle does nothing. In future having "severely depressed" moodle for a long could give you hallucinations as well)