So, Emergency Medpacs, Medpacs, Stimpacks... are these consumable?

Synthskin explicitly calls out that it's a one-use item, so I'm cool there. Stimpacks are 25c and can heal 15 wounds per day per character.. are they meant to be one-use?

Medpacs have a line that suggests they're not single-use.. "(although the GM can rule the device has run out of stims if the supplies are used continuously)."

So.. what's going on, here?

Emergency/Medpacks are more of a toolkit less a single use item. They negate penalties/provide bonuses on Medicine rolls.

Stimpacks are more akin to red potions. One use item that returns wounds.

Synthskin/flesh.. well i think the flesh is more of a descriptor for the coverings on cyberware. @ 10 credits a dose? it might be a one use "tool" for Medicine? I can't think of anything else it would be.

I want to know what a liter of bacta does.

I want to know what a liter of bacta does.

It gets you hammered 'till next week. Trust me.

I would have liked to see the inclusion of simple consumables like the healing Bactade drink from Tatooine Ghost. You drink it, it's gone, you heal ______.

That's basically what the stimpacks are. they just built in a limiter to keep people from carying around a belt full of them and being "immortal".

I want to know what a liter of bacta does.

It gets you hammered 'till next week. Trust me.

I have to say this is probably the most EPIC response i've ever seen. and as far as i can tell, its just there for trade purposes? or maybe it interacts with the doctor spec somehow.

I want to know what a liter of bacta does.

The core book states that bacta can be used in treated patches, injection etc. but not how you can utilise the liter.The Core book does provide healing rules for a full Bacta Tank or Stimpacks (which also contain Bacta), but the Medpac (Inc. Emergency medpac) also has bacta patches which infers that the healing effect is based on the Medicine roll. To be completelly honest though, with the current entry for a Liter of Bacta seems pointless. There is a price for a full tank worth which is 4000 credits which assumes 200 liters but not the cost of the actual tank itself.

Also, is Bacta something you use only once or can it be 'cleaned'?

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I think some of it is left up to interpretation. This is my interpretation/understanding/made up crap about medical items:

1. A Despair / 3 Threat on a Medicine check can cause your medical supplies to run out of bacta

2. A liter of bacta can replenish medical supplies

3. A full tank of Bacta provides accelerated healing (page 220)

4. An emergency medpac simply allows the use of the Medicine skill

5. A medpac gives the player a Boost to Medicine checks

6. A stimpack heals a set small number of wounds (5) immediately. With each use the amount of wounds it removes goes down by 1, and does not become completely effective again until the character has rested fully.

7. Synthskin also simply allows the use of the Medicine skill, but is a one-use item (and much cheaper than emergency medpacs).

Number 1 and 2 and 7 are house rules. Number 3, 4, 5, and 6 are, I believe, how it works in the Core Rulebook.

This is obviously not a serious suggestion, but when reading the book, here is the idea that popped into my head.

A large glass jar with a liter of bacta fluid and some empty space at the top of the container. For hand injuries you'd simply slide your hand into the jar and tape it on. Portable bacta tank for minor hand related injuries.

Then of course my mind wandered from that to the idea of bacta coming in a jar with a resealable lid and looking like some sort of strawberry jelly. Then I was thinking about peanut butter and bacta sandwiches. I assume they taste aweful, but I bet they work like Pepto Bismol and are sort of a cure all for any stomach problems.

And now, as I ponder it more and more, I feel like my crazy droid doctor (with a poor bedside manner) would attempt to add bacta to everything. Cleaning supplies, food rations, the ships water system. He'll start offering bacta for everything. "Those thugs kidnapped my daughter!" "I heard bacta can clear that right up."

This is obviously not a serious suggestion, but when reading the book, here is the idea that popped into my head.

A large glass jar with a liter of bacta fluid and some empty space at the top of the container. For hand injuries you'd simply slide your hand into the jar and tape it on. Portable bacta tank for minor hand related injuries.

Then of course my mind wandered from that to the idea of bacta coming in a jar with a resealable lid and looking like some sort of strawberry jelly. Then I was thinking about peanut butter and bacta sandwiches. I assume they taste aweful, but I bet they work like Pepto Bismol and are sort of a cure all for any stomach problems.

And now, as I ponder it more and more, I feel like my crazy droid doctor (with a poor bedside manner) would attempt to add bacta to everything. Cleaning supplies, food rations, the ships water system. He'll start offering bacta for everything. "Those thugs kidnapped my daughter!" "I heard bacta can clear that right up."

He'd be like the dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, except instead of windex, it's bacta. And then he'd exclaim, "Droids invented bacta!"

He'd be like the dad from My Big Fat Greek Wedding, except instead of windex, it's bacta. And then he'd exclaim, "Droids invented bacta!"

Hey, droids don't get to steal credit for creating Bacta from the Vratix