Medical Treatment in Traveller

[Spartan159]

I would like to compare rules for medical treatment in Traveller, any version is fair game. I'm hoping for book and page references, but house rules are welcome too.

 

[kilemall]

Well I have a big ol' thread right in this forum. I know the original JTAS had a big medicine in Traveller treatment. As I recall the various Central Supply Catalogs all have expansion on drugs and cybernetics.


Probably the standard Traveller items is low berths for taking a shot at keeping a character alive when a hospital is not available, and of course Medical Slow Drug.

 

[Spartan159]

It's the medical process itself I'm curious about, treatment, difficulty, recovery time, that sort of thing. I'll see if I can find the thread.

 

[McPerth]

I'd suggest you to look at "The Medical Digest, appearing in several issues of the TD, begining in TD #10.

 

[Spartan159]

Thanks!

 

[Black Vulmea]

In the expanded tech levels described in DGP's Grand Census, medical is described in terms of treatment available at each tech level - I find it very useful in determining not only the kinds of treatment plans available to travellers, but also in visualizing what a doctor's office or hospital looks like at, say, TL A v TLD.

 

[SpaceBadger]

Well I have a big ol' thread right in this forum.

Do you mean the one about Quick n Dirty Medical Drama? (I had to go Search after that lead!) Or was there something else?

 

[kilemall]

That's it.


Should list the JTAS issue number in there as well, in some ways the CT 'original' version is more brutal then mine.


I think enlisting the aging mechanic works quite well in terms of defining long term damages risks- 'it's not the age, it's the miles'.

 

[Spartan159]

That's it.


Should list the JTAS issue number in there as well, in some ways the CT 'original' version is more brutal then mine.


I think enlisting the aging mechanic works quite well in terms of defining long term damages risks- 'it's not the age, it's the miles'.

Ouch... CT version is in JTAS eh?

 

[SpaceBadger]

Ouch... CT version is in JTAS eh?

Aaaannd... I don't have my JTAS issues handy to check, but according to the JTAS Index (free from FFE and DriveThruRPG) the article appeared in JTAS #11 and Best of JTAS #3.

Medical Treatment In Traveller (Rules Module), McInnes, Terry & Marc Desmond, 11- 22; also in Best of the Journal 3-02

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[kilemall]

Ya, and after someone mentioned it I snatched it from DTRPG and looked it over.


Here it's listed in the wiki-
https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Journal_of_the_Travellers%27_Aid_Society_11


If you follow the wiki to here, you get a listing of other resources associated with Traveller's Digest and others-
https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Medical_Technology_of_Charted_Space

 

[SpaceBadger]

Also, if you have T5, there is a lot of stuff in there about medical treatment and medical equipment and drugs and other medical technology; can't say that I understand it all, but it is in there.

(Since getting the T5.09 PDF about 30 hours ago, I've spent most of that time reading through it trying to grok the gestalt. So far, it isn't working. )