Sickness in Hero

[GAZZA]

Been reading through the UNTIL super powers guide (thoroughly recommended, BTW - sort of like a mini "Super Ultimate Series" book), and I'm at the Radiation Powers section. I notice that many powers to inflict "radiation sickness" and similar are done with CON drains.

 

I admit that sounds right - CON is health, right? But in Hero terms... is it really correct to model it this way? The only thing a CON drain will do to you is make you easier to STUN (since drains don't affect figured characteristics), and that's not really the effect that springs to mind when I consider debilitating sickness:

• Should make you weaker and less coordinated
  
• Should make you less able to bounce back from other injuries
  
• Should make you tire more easily

I think sickness would be better simulated with an effect that simultaneously drains STR, DEX, CON, and END, and REC. But I'm not 100% sold on the STR, to be honest; I'm not sure that STR is necessarily lowered (since the typical effect if I'm getting over a nasty flu isn't that I'm weaker, but that I can't exert myself for as long - and the END drain would deal with that). So perhaps just DEX, CON, END, and REC (a Drain with a +1 advantage covers it nicely).

 

Thoughts? Am I over complicating things here?

[GAZZA]

Re: Sickness in Hero

 

Hmm, now that I see what Negative CON does, I suppose the effect is reasonable if you just drain CON away.

[ghost-angel]

Re: Sickness in Hero

 

Hmm' date=' now that I see what Negative CON does, I suppose the effect is reasonable if you just drain CON away.[/quote']

 

Yep.

 

Of course, you could expand on that if you felt it was appropriate. This is HERO afterall.

[Dr. Anomaly]

Re: Sickness in Hero

 

Yep.

 

Of course, you could expand on that if you felt it was appropriate. This is HERO afterall.

 

Aid to Power Building Concept, All Special Effects at the Same Time...

[CourtFool]

I can't focus

 

What about INT and Perception?