On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 12:38:49AM -0400, Richard Aiken wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:13 AM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:
> > Did it allow for futuristic medical treatment?
>
> Oh, yes! As I recall, it was a very faithful re-engineering of the various
> Classic Traveller mechanics into a format that meshed fairly well with the
> d20 mechanics.

I meant in the sense of "Oh, another patient with their heart and half
of a lung burnt out of their chest. Yeah, he'll be dead for a while
until we can grow and implant a few new organs".

I'm fairly sure it had provision for putting a "dead" character into cryogenic suspension while a new body was cloned for him.

Richard Aiken

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