Restricted Diet
#disadvantage #rules_analogue #player-option
Physical; -10 to -40 points
You require a specialized food or fuel that is hard to come by. Unlike Dependency (B130), you do not take damage if you go without . . . you just can’t eat or refuel, which will eventually incapacitate you. Point value depends on the rarity of the item you consume:
- Rare (-40 points): Dragon’s blood, exotic nutrient mixture, weapons-grade uranium.
- Occasional (-30 points): Virgin’s blood, rocket fuel, babies, radioactives. -30 points.
- Common (-20 points): Human flesh, gasoline, liquid hydrogen.
- Very Common (-10 points): Fresh meat, any hydrocarbon fuel (gasoline, diesel, etc.), electric batteries, fresh blood.
Restricted Diet is appropriate for normal humans with chronic gastrointestinal disorders.
Special Limitations
- Substitution (-50%): You can try to consume a food or fuel similar to the one you require. For instance, a cyborg that requires exotic nutrients could try ordinary human food, or a machine that requires gasoline could try diesel. This sustains you, but you must make a HT roll after each meal or refueling. Failure means your HT attribute drops by one until you receive appropriate medical or mechanical attention. Critical failure means an incapacitating reaction (GM’s decision): severe immune response, engine failure, etc. Those who lack this limitation but for some reason attempt substitution derive no sustenance at all and must still make the HT roll above; treat success as failure and failure as critical failure.