Guardian Angel Nanoware, Have a question about this. Options

[FrostyNSO]

In M&M it says this acts as a rating 6 medkit but gets a -1 modifier. It will attept to revive an unconcious subject, and it will attempt to stabilize a dying subject.

If it functions as a rating 6 medkit, does that mean that when somebody that has this nanoware takes a wound it will try to heal it?

[Cray74]

[FrostyNSO]

That's what I have always thought but it seems a little...I dunno.

So I assume it takes the same amounts of base time for first aid as a medic would need, but do you have to be laying there while it works, or can you be running, shooting, etc?

[Eyeless Blond]

Hm, that's a good point. Maybe instead of a flat -1 it should have a movement modifier, same as for other actions in combat: -1 when standing still, -0 for walking, and +whatever it was for running (+2? +3?)

[Zazen]

I've ruled that, unless you're at deadly, you have to spend a free action to tell it to heal you. You also have to sit or lay down and physically rest somewhat (decking, aiming, using SUT, etc. are all fine). Works great.

I made it controllable because there may be times when you don't want it to heal you (like if there's a superior medic right next to you).

[FrostyNSO]

I just told him it starts up asap but he has to be at rest. The only superior medic we have is the guy that actually has the ware =)

[Cray74]

[BitBasher]

Why would they need to be still? it's all nanomachines operating on a cellular level.

[Black Isis]

Hard to patch up your gushing chest wound when your heart is working overtime to pump blood through the rest of your body as you sprint down a corridor. Or patch a muscle when it is flexing (or trying to flex).

[Cray74]

This reminds me. I need to get in some more SR time so I can finish converting my favorite samurai to the Immortal Samurai: Platelet Factory, Chemical Gland (Platelet Factory Decoagulant), Symbiotes 3, and Guardian Angel Nanobiomonitor. Am I forgetting some healing-related cyber-, bio-, or geneware?

[mfb]

well, a trauma damper will automatically knock your wound level down by one, just about every time you get hit. that'll make things easier for the guardian angel.

[Cray74]

[sidartha]

Acutaly the wound penaltys are the same (-3 serious = -2 moderate + -1 light,s)
the thing really comes in handy when you take two serious wounds and are at ten physical boxes instead of twelve. Or when you get shot on a run and take a Mod + Light,s then you shake off the stun on the way to the meet with the J, so when he double-crosses you, your at a -2 instead of a -3. ;)

[mfb]

and plus, the time for healing a stun wound is halved. base time per box becomes 15 minutes; with your 'ware and a high body, you should be able to knock that down to 2-3 mins.

[Cray74]

[BitBasher]

[sidartha]

If you already have stun then you already have stun. The math works out the same.
The point is it can save your life in a pinch and you heal stun twice as fast and any first aid tests are made at a lower TN and reduce more boxes.(funny how that game mechanic works :) ) I personally love the thing however we play by the FAQ so the Dampener is verboten at starting and finding a Beta clinic is difficult at best. Oh well.


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[mfb]

oops, right, base time of one hour per box.

[Ol' Scratch]

[Necro Tech]

Don't forget that the trauma damper is a godsend for deckers (no more constant backlash while running DNI) and mages. The loss of a magic point is more than made up by the removal of a box of stun when you are draining powerful spells.

[Eyeless Blond]

Constant backlash when you're running DNI? Is this from an older edition, or did I miss something?

[Zazen]

[mfb]

...except that trauma dampers only kick in after your damage compensators have already been overwhelmed.

[Ol' Scratch]

That's the point.

If you only suffer a Light Wound (as in, take one box of damage) the Guardian Angel will repair that in just a few seconds whereas if you didn't have the Compensator, the box would have shifted over to Stun Damage where the Guardian Angel wouldn't have been able to do anything and you'd have the base time of one-hour before its effects would disappear.

This is particularly useful if you also have Platelet Factories and two points of Damage Compensation (or Pain Resistance, or anything else along those lines). Now, even a Moderate Wound will be healed in a matter of seconds; the Platelet Factories will shift it to two boxes of Light damage, neither of which will be shifted over to Stun because your Trauma Damper doesn't realize you're wounded thanks to the Compensators, and the Guardian Angel would be able to patch them up in no time.

The only iffy part is determining which implants kick in first. The rules never really go into this and a lot of the "trick" is in having the implants work in a specific order; namely Platelet Factory > Trauma Damper > Nano-Biomonitor.

[Zazen]

Yes, that's the point :P