# Trauma Assessment CBM

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [May 14, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599 "2015-05-14T19:19:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![Ronin1791](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@Ronin1791](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ronin1791)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/1 "2015-05-14T19:19:27Z")

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Simply put, how about a medical utility CBM that recreates the effects of the Self-Aware mutation? Found on zombie scientists/shockers, maybe occasionally augmented military/first responders.

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**Author:** ![Pthalocy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/2 "2015-05-14T21:44:04Z")

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Not sure if redundant game-wise, but really practical from a real-world angle. I kinda like it.

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**Author:** ![vache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@vache](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vache)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/3 "2015-05-14T21:46:12Z")

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Bonus points if it spits out half-life HEV suit style messages every now and then.

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**Author:** ![Ronin1791](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@Ronin1791](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ronin1791)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/4 "2015-05-14T22:02:32Z")

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> [@vache](#):
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> Bonus points if it spits out half-life HEV suit style messages every now and then.

“Major Fracture Detected. User death imminent!” - Love it.

Yeah, definitely agreed that it would be more of a world building thing than something that’s hugely necessary, but with a fairly low install requirement I reckon it’d be one of those “May as well” CBMs, a bit like the internal chronometer.

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**Author:** ![Noodles\_of\_Doom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noodles_of_doom/32/431_2.png) [@Noodles\_of\_Doom](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noodles_of_Doom)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/5 "2015-05-14T22:30:02Z")

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I think this is worthwhile- it makes sense that the military would have something like this.

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**Author:** ![PropaneSoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19b73/32.png) [@PropaneSoup](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/PropaneSoup)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/6 "2015-05-15T00:38:20Z")

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I think I remember Kevin mentioning how he’d like to eventually do away with the whole hit point system and just have various cuts, bleeds and breaks get applied to the player. This sounds like it would be really helpful should we ever get to that point.

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**Author:** ![The\_Lone\_Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/the_lone_badger/32/8063_2.png) [@The\_Lone\_Badger](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/The_Lone_Badger)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/7 "2015-05-15T09:12:31Z")

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Should maybe give a small bonus to applying first aid to yourself? Because you have extra information about what’s wrong.

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**Author:** ![Ronin1791](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@Ronin1791](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ronin1791)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/8 "2015-05-15T15:47:31Z")

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> [@The Lone Badger](#):
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> Should maybe give a small bonus to applying first aid to yourself? Because you have extra information about what’s wrong.

Yeah, that makes sense.

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**Author:** ![Zireael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zireael/32/956_2.png) [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/9 "2015-05-16T09:10:40Z")

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I love this idea.

Getting rid of the hp system is I think far, far away.

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**Author:** ![Cat09](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/cat09/32/285_2.png) [@Cat09](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Cat09)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/10 "2015-05-16T17:28:37Z")

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this could actually tie in well with other, more medically focused cbms, which should really be more common than combat-oriented ones. (EMP pulse would be gov’t forces, illegal otherwise)

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/11 "2015-05-16T20:56:37Z")

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[quote=“Zireael, post:9, topic:9599”]I love this idea.

Getting rid of the hp system is I think far, far away.[/quote]  
Yeah, most likely what we’ll end up with first is a system where you still have HP, but various wounds/etc. can affect the way you interact with the world. And only after we’ve got that down pretty well will we take a look at starting to remove some aspects of HP. (Though as usual it’s totally at the whims of the working developers, it could go in in the next couple of days, or it could happen years from now, who knows which. :P)

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**Author:** ![Cat09](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/cat09/32/285_2.png) [@Cat09](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Cat09)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/12 "2015-05-16T22:09:40Z")

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the new issue vote system may be relevant to that whole timeline thing  
check out the post [http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=9965.0](http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?topic=9965.0)

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**Author:** ![King\_of\_Baboons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@King\_of\_Baboons](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/King_of_Baboons)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/trauma-assessment-cbm/9599/13 "2015-05-21T01:19:19Z")

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> [@vache](#):
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> Bonus points if it spits out half-life HEV suit style messages every now and then.

I would like it more if it WAS an actual HEV suit!