On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:24:31 -0000, aurora_rosewood ... What exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean an online community? Do you mean a local only, or world...
Friday, July 2, 2004, 10:24:31 AM, aurora_rosewood wrote: a> The title pretty much explains itself. Not really. What do you mean by "role-playing community"?...
Can anyone give a simple and clear explanation of how diseases spread? Specifically, I'm looking for easy, not-too-detailed rules for catching a disease in a...
From: "David Harper" <dharper@...> ... One thing that worked for me was treating the fight against a disease using the same rules as for poison, but...
... There are, as you said, many ways of disease to spread. Here are a few: 1) Airborne virus/bacteria. Better stay away from that sneeze. 2) By sexual...
There is a lot of good input here about the characteristics of diseases, but I'd like to concentrate on a way of effectively handling them in role-playing. I...
... I was thinking of something like this, but I wanted to have some quick-and-dirty rules for how likely you were to get the disease. Take two people exposed...
... That sounds a lot like how I handle weapons, animals and so on...I have rules for making different kinds and let players do the work of translating them...
Ok, some more diseases I will use your template for the common cold to give the stats for the others. First off, I would like to expand the recovery time to ...
A little extra information: The black death came in three flavors, based on where the bacteria took hold. Bubonic plague, the most common, infected the...
Hallo, ... Just a note here: The drugs used to treat this are very toxic themselves. When I worked at the prison I had to be treated for possible exposure (an...
... Taking Keith's advice, anybody who wants to see the pics can now download a selection at http://home.golden.net/~dharper/Wedding. It's just a small...
... Huh, so I wouldn't have been the only guy with long hair... though mine's longer than his. btw. the 'guests' photo looks incomplete; I see only the first...
... Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, July 06, 2004, 9:34:01 PM, David wrote: DH> Taking Keith's advice, anybody who wants to see the pics can now DH> download a selection...
David Harper wrote:- ... A sufficient quantity of a pathogenic organism enters the body to elicit an immune response. The interaction between the organism and...
... While the information about the bubonic plague is doubtless correct, there is controversy regarding whether the black death was, in fact, the bubonic...
Thanks Robert for the "offical" insight. ... body's defenses ... In the case of deliberate contamination (military or assassination use) which is likely to...
... lypmhatic ... showing ... don't ... travel ... The symptoms for the other varieties of "plague" are notably different from bubonic - Pneumonic with its...
I fixed the one photo, Keith. Try again now. ... Heather: "Geek love ROCKS." ... Heather: "I want to know the basis of both opinions." -Dave -- Me: "I've...
... The Goddess Heather grants her loyal worshipper a blessing on all his dating rolls for the next cycle. -As interpreted by Her high priest, Dave -- Me:...
... Now THERE'S an interesting plot. -Dave -- Me: "I've made a few changes to the rules..." Colin: "Who's surprised? Put up your hand." Me: "Actually,...
... Thank you for a concise explanation, Robert. One more question for you: are there any common methods by which most/all diseases will spread? I'm fairly...
David Harper <dharper@...>'s evil twin Skippy wrote: One more question: How much of the infection relies on the individual? Are people who are generally...
Lots relies on lifestyle & genetics - healthier individuals generally have stronger immune systems that can better fight off disease & infection. Also,...
This subject is fascinating and one I haven't addressed as well as I'd like. But I have a question. While in plague situations or specially noxious ...
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