Better living through chemistry

[General Pain]

Anyone developed rules for battle stimulants?

- stimulants etc etc

I read somewhere that the US army was conducting experiments on soldiers in the gulf, where the soldiers were given a pill that made them unable to sleep for long periods of time with no sideeffects, reducing the amount of soldiers needed etc....

[Webstral]

Given the Army's nearly pathological hatred of sleep, it wouldn't surprise me in the least that they are ready to believe a pill to prevent sleeping that has no side effects could exist. I'm sure the contractor is Halliburton & Tooth Fairy, Ltd.


Webstral

[Targan]

When I converted Cyberpunk 2020 to Gunmaster I had to do a full conversion of the drugs rules (a major part of Cyberpunk). It was very easy therefore to use that conversion as the basis for my Gunmaster:2000 drugs rules.

Major Po has a wide variety of pharmaceutical and illicit drugs. He uses them for a variety of purposes (including interrogation/torture, personal and group recreation, warding off the need to sleep on difficult missions etc).

[General Pain]

I was looking for a decent list of sorts

(chekc out the big book of psyonics here: http://thebigbookofwar.50megs.com/DOX/0-House%20rules/)

name,type,bonus,penalty,cost-merc,cost-t2k,production

example
amphetamine,stimulant,+1-+3(con),-1--3(ag/cha/int),x$,x$,small chem lab

notes on how clean the drug is also welcome

something like this,but more t2k-merc.....

http://www.pillreports.com/

[MW Turnage]

The USAF has been was using combinations of the insomnia hypnotics (like Ambien, etc) and amphetamines extensively for awhile in both Iraq and Afghanistan. There's been no small amount of controversy about this; while official policy is that usage is voluntary...well, I think we all know how that would work in practice. There's also been some questioning of its impact in several of the notorious friendly fire incidents. There's been some controversy about that too with several doctors from the services and VA saying there's been official pressure against studies of long-term affects on decision-making.

How to put all this into game terms is a good question. My gut instinct is to let one dosage eliminate all fatigue accumulated over a 48 hour period if followed by an 8-hour period of sleep. I'd consider instituting a general 1-2 point penalty (depending on whether or not you're using d10 or d20) for continued use of more than a week or more.

[Targan]

If you have access to the Cyberpunk 2020 rules it has some stuff for the use of drugs.