Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[malifer]

There are a couple of good Star Trek conversions out there but they all seemed to gloss over or forget about the Doctor.

I liked to run an Original Series game, but I'm not really sure the best route for healing.

I would like the Hypospray and Medical Tricorder to be a little better than bandages in a Modern Day game.

Any thoughts?

[Kythkyn]

Maybe go the weird science route?
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[MightyCthulhu]

+2 healing check?
hypos could have a variety of uses including negating a wound penalty or maybe giving an incapacitated character a vigor check to get back in the action?

[Kythkyn]

Healing in Trek is essentially magic. I mean, think of the pill McCoy gave the patient in Star Trek IV. Magical cure. And the hypoes and such are essentially healing potions.
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[malifer]

[malifer]

[kronovan]

I think I'd go with allowing the hypospray to heal in 1 round and have the PC's healing skill used to operate it, so with that a medic could heal an injured character in the field during combat. It's a technical device, so I'd probably have it malfunction on a Healing dice roll of 1 with a critical failure not allowing a reroll with a benny. As well, a sickbay bed should grant a +2 bonus to natural healing rolls, which is in keeping with the design guidelines in the SciFi Gear Toolkit.

Star Trek is more hard SciFi than pulp, so IMO you should try to balance the strength of healing a bit with the consequences of PC sustaining long term damage - i.e. injuries outside the 'Golden Hour.' So if you make healing very powerful, you'll likely going to need to increase the damage on weapons to maintain the balance.

[The Dread Polack]

There's a board game I play called Battlestations that is very nearly a roleplaying game that simulates Star-Trek style ship-based missions. There are 4 classes. One of them is "Scientist" which functions as a doctor, among other things. In that game, character actions are sorted out and balanced by what skill you roll (each class specializes in one skill). If I wanted to simulate a Trek-style doctor in SW, I'd do it basically the way they do it in Battlestations.

You can go the Weird Science route if you want, but you could also simply create a number of actions characters can do with a Medicine skill roll, and what they can and cannot do without a medical tricorder or hypospray- then assign modifiers to their skill rolls. Go into as little or as much detail as you want. Maybe something very similar in process to the Healing power can be performed.

I actually think most of the medical scenes in ST look like Dramatic Tasks to me. Drawing a club would often mean that the doctor doesn't have the right tools or drugs on hand and will have to improvise.

[TheLoremaster]

[malifer]