Careers after the nukes fly .

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Targan

I want to see the T2K char gen stats for the "Dement" career

I want to see that too! I fit that one!

[Targan]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

I want to see that too! I fit that one!

Hmm, I dunno. If you were a real dement you would be eating your dogs, not feeding them. I don't think dements have a capacity for love or compassion and their dress sense truly sucks.

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Targan

...their dress sense truly sucks.

Only when they bother!

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Targan

Hmm, I dunno. If you were a real dement you would be eating your dogs, not feeding them. I don't think dements have a capacity for love or compassion...

You're confusing a demented person with a sociopathic person.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

You're confusing a demented person with a sociopathic person.

I'm not talking about people suffering from dementia or any of the milder mental illneses, I'm talking about dements as they are described in T2K. "Dement" isn't a very accurate term for the dements as described in, say, Armies of the Night. Those sorts of dements are probably mostly suffering from extreme PTSD and/or have had serious underlying mental illnesses exacerbated by the trauma they have suffered. Some might be pre-war street people/druggies/urban riff-raff who have gone even deeper into anti-sociality as a result of the effects of the war.

My point is that dements strike me as people who are so far gone that conventional pharmaceutical and therapy treatments probably wouldn't help them much, if at all.