Medical Droid

vong · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: Medical Droid

My players just bought a 2-1B Med Droid, and i was trying to clarify the rules.

They dont have a bacta tank, so when you roll your first aid, you add your medicine (stats are below). But i am curios what Injury/ailment Diagnosis is for. Now if they did get a bactatank, i know you have to roll your medicine for that, but he has a bacta tank operation skill, so is that added to the medicine skill when rolled?

DEXTERITY 1D
KNOWLEDGE 2D
Alien species 5D
MECHANICAL 3D
(A) Bacta Tank Operation 5D
PERCEPTION 3D
(A) Injury/ailment Diagnosis 3D+1
STRENGTH 1D
TECHNICAL 3D
First Aid 6D
(A) Medicine 9D
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Jedi Skyler · Moff Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 8440

Injury/Ailment diagnosis allows the character to properly determine the ACTUAL cause of the problem, and to then know how to properly treat it. If you botch this roll, you might think a character has swine flu and give them the medicine for that, when in reality they have Nawrokian Takkor Fever, a completely different ailment.

This skill also helps prevent them from getting malpractice suits... Wink

vong · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

could you give some examples of how you would use it... Very Happy

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Kayle Skolaris · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:03 am Post subject:

An example is the PC has been envenomated by an unknown creature. He's still alive, but just barely. The other PCs describe the creature to the 2-1B and the 2-1B makes its Diagnosis roll to properly identify the creature and administer the appropriate antivenin.

Another example is the PC has collapsed for no apparent reason. You as GM know that it's because a bounty hunter arranged to have his drink poisoned six hours ago, but the other PCs don't know that. They take him to their faithful droid and it's up to its diagnosis roll to figure out what the real problem is.

garhkal · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:53 am Post subject:

Or like i had..

Pc's get infected with disease X on planet Y, but don't know it.. The disease is mild and just has a rash associated with it, but when it crosses with infection Z, it becomes threatening... Z on it's own, is just like a real bad case of the flu and diaoreah..
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Jedi Skyler · Moff Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 8440

Basically it's the ability of the doctor, med droid, or whomever to examine a patient, catalogue the symptoms, and put those together to determine the cause. Once the cause is known, then it's also the ability to properly proscribe medication to counteract the problem.

daphnebluestrat · Cadet Joined: 20 Mar 2006 Posts: 19 Location: 314

so what's the Bacta Tank Operation skill for, since all you need to activate a Bacta Tank normally is Medicine?

PsiberDragon · Commander Joined: 31 Jul 2006 Posts: 260

My thought is that you need it to program the bacta tank to help speed the healing of the specifically diagnosed problem.

Medicine is more along the lines of diagnosis and doing surgery and such, as iirc, bacta tanks can heal wounds, but they cant take out bullets from slugthrowers and the like...
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