From: Christopher Gribbon [c.gribbon@dundee.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 4:05 AM
To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com
Subject: Re: [FWD] Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Vacuum nastiness

>> >The best RPG treatments of vacuum exposure I've read have been in in
>> Trinity (white wolf)
>> >- the Lunar sourcebook, I think - and in the Cyberpunk "Near Orbit"
>> supplement (which was
>> >reccomended to me by someone on this list over a year ago as the best
>> >until-BP-makes-their-own space supplement).
>> 
>> The Trinity text you are refering to is not in the Lunar 
>> sourcebook, but in
>> "Hidden Agendas" (p.43/44). Their description of exposure to 
>> vacuum is more
>> or less like yours. They don't provide a specific system of 
>> game mechanics,
>> but suggest a very simple rule: If the unfortunate person 
>> isn't safed almost
>> immediatly, he will die. And even if he is safed, he will be 
>> in a *very* bad
>> condition and must spend the next weeks (at least) recovering.

Yeah - I went home to look it up, and found that the Luna book said "look in Hidden 
Agendas" - I was *halfway* there...

Christopher Gribbon
Vision Research Laboratories
Medical Sciences Institute
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 5EH
UK

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