[gurps] Cyberpunk & 4e

[Ed Simons]

hal at buffnet.net wrote:

>At 09:41 AM 7/26/2006 -0300, you wrote:
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>>On 7/26/06, hal at buffnet.net <hal at buffnet.net> wrote:
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>>>Hello Folks,
>>>Example:  A man who has a cyberhand to replace his missing crippled hand,
>>>he takes the disdavantage "crippled" with the modifier of "correctable".
>>>If he takes bionic eyes, he must also take blind as a disadvantage with
>>>"correctable" as a modifier.
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>>I don't think this approach is accurate. Can anyone yank this man's
>>hand or his eyes off? Can he loose them? In most settings, the answer
>>would be "no".
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>Technically, the answer is yes.  A cybered razorboy for example, could be
>knocked unconscious, and have the eyes ahem, surgically removed with a
>vibro-blade.  A cybernetic arm could be torn off from the shoulder and sold
>as slightly used.
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And organleggers could remove non-cybered limbs and organs as well.  If 
'crippled' or 'blind' with 'correctable' is allowed in those settings it 
should be allowed for everyone, cybered or not.