Radioactive radioactive (all sing along now)

[Cdnwolf]

Some nice easy to figure out ideas of what radiation does to the body and how to incorporate it into your next game.

[Draq]

I've been half heartedly trying to rework the v1 radiation.

[TitusPullo]

WTH is MREM? I thought the proper term was RADS? Well off to google "MREM"

[Draq]

There are so many ways to measure radiation.

[StainlessSteelCynic]

I think rads was convenient for a game term as it was easy/convenient to identify as a dose of radiation. The term rad is an acronym for radiation absorbed dose and is a measure of the energy deposited onto/into living tissue.

The term mrem is an older measurement of radiation, it is one thousandth of a rem with mrem meaning milli Roentgen equivalent in man. I think mrem was mostly used within the USA.

Both are valid terms but with several different terms used to describe a does of radiation it all becomes quite unclear and seems just a little screwy.
There's a page describing all this in far better terms than my efforts on the following link: -
http://ieer.org/resource/classroom/m...n-terminology/

[Draq]

That cleared things up a little... Thanx