Have you looked at _Tree of Life: Altrants in Clement Sector_ and _Wondrous
Menagerie: Uplifts in Clement Sector_?

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 06:34:05 -0400, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

>Genetic engineering in a somewhat transhuman setting could well include
>animals with vastly modified capacities (or something like a human imbued
>with some abilities much similar to what an animal might have). In the case
>of animals raised to sentience, that would be uplifts. Genmods (Genetic
>modifications) are the other side - humans enhance to have capabilities
>that are improvements over normal human levels of performance.
>
>I've been thinking about how to balance such entities so as to make them
>playable characters.
>
>In the enhancements column, such changed invididuals might have:
>- ability to deal with higher/lower atmospheric pressures and/or partial
>pressures of breathing gases
>- ability to handle higher/lower gravities (including zero-G)
>- better senses - sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, kinesthetic sense,
>others
>- better physical attributes - strength, endurance, agility, speed, memory,
>etc
>- other abilities - pheremone emission, body alterations (claws, teeth,
>wings, you name it)
>
>In the limitations category, we could have:
>- weaknesses in one or two areas mentioned above
>- intolerance and prejudice, limitations on advancement
>- shorter life spans
>- perhaps subject to certain degenerations or diseases, or don't heal as
>fast
>- if their path to maturity is shorter, perhaps they get fewer background
>skills
>- if they mature sooner, aging may arrive sooner and more harshly
>- need specialized medical compared to bog standard homo sapiens sapiens
>
>The same sorts of logic might apply to cybermods. They give, but perhaps
>there are prejudices or they overclock parts of your neural system and/or
>impact your psychological wellbeing. They may also open you up to viruses
>and so on that your fleshware would never have had on its own. It is
>possible that the cost of most cybermods means the people likely to have
>them are some military careers and some operative careers. Otherwise, only
>the very rich and their mods may be more about looks or their enjoyment
>than anything that really adds to their basic capacities.
>
>Any other thoughts on advantages or disadvantages for genmods, uplifts or
>cybermoded characters?
>
>I think as with most things, the details would need to be experimented
>with. That said, any interesting options I haven't thought of could be good
>to look at, so if anyone has additional ideas, I'm glad to hear them.
>
>TomB

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