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Originally Posted by Simlasa
So we might as well dump zombies and werewolves and evil medicine men into it... to liven it up a bit!
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Not necessarily. I think there is plenty of "life" in the genre to begin with. Zombies and such are certainly fine for alternate takes on things, but I wouldn't want to make the part of the "core" setting. Doing so just sticks people who don't want them with them.
I wouldn't mid seeing a Phantom Empire supplment, with a underground hi-tech society, or a lost valley of Dinosaurs, or Native American medicine men with a "Ghost Dance" that works. But I think it is better to keep them as separate add ons. That way the rest of the setting us more useful.
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Originally Posted by Simlasa
Yeah, just the thought of playing the level of hygiene accurately almost makes me gag for real!  |
The idea of being operated on in a era with limited anesthetics, no antibiotics, and where Doctors didn't wash their hands before operating scares me. It no wonder why the motility rates were so high. It wasn't the bullet that killed you, it was the physician who treated the bullet wound.