====== SPICES ======

===== TECHNOLOGY LEVELS =====

^  TL ^ TL DESCRIPTION ^ EXAMPLES ^
| -10 | Prehistoric | Before fire |
|  -9 | Stone Age   | Paleolithic, Ice Age |
|  -8 | Bronze Age  | Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Greek, Ancient Chinese |
|  -7 | Iron Age    | Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman |
|  -6 | Middle Ages ~500-1400AD | Medieval, Medieval Fantasy |
|  -5 | Renaissance ~1400-1500 | |
|  -4 | Age of Sail/Exploration ~1500-1760 | Pirates, Swashbuckling |
|  -3 | Industrial/Technological Revolutions ~1760-1914 | Old West 1780-1920's, Horror 1890's-1920's |
|  -2 | World War I and II ~1914-1945 | Pulp 1920's-1930's |
|  -1 | Atomic/Nuclear/Space Age ~1946-1970's | Atomic Age Horror 1945-1970's, Superhero Era 1940's-1970's, Espionage Era 1940's-1980's, Space Age 1960s-1980s |
|   0 | Information Age ~1970s-2020s (Now) | Modern, Modempunk, Modern Conspiracy/Horror 1990's- |
|  +1 | Synthetic (Biological/Intelligence) Age ~2020-2199 | Tomorrows, Cyberpunk |
|  +2 | Stellar Age ~2100+ | Conquest of the Solar System, Transhumanist, After the Apocalypse (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, Technological, Ecological) |
|  +3 | Slower-Than-Light Interstellar Age | |
|  +4 | Massless Faster-Than-Light (Communication) | Moving energy/information only above c |
|  +5 | Mass Faster-Than-Light (Travel) | Moving energy/information and mass above c |
|  +6 | Faster-Than-Light Interstellar Age | Interstellar Expansion, Post-Scarcity, Federation |
|  +7 | Galactic Age | Interstellar Empires, Decadent |
|  +8 | Extragalactic Age | |
|  +9 | Pre-Ascendant | the Krell, Markovians, Xeelee, limited mass/energy conversion and control |
| +10 | Post-Ascendance | After the Singularity, Post-Instrumentality, total mass/energy conversion or control |

Note: From TL+2 (Stellar Age) onward, multiple technology levels become possible in a setting as different distant locations diverge in their technological capabilities and social conventions.

===== ATTRIBUTES =====
Spices could posses, or grant, bonuses or penalties to the following Attributes:
  * [[Strength]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - durability?
  * [[Endurance]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - ability to take damage?
  * [[Agility]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to wearer agility?
  * [[Dexterity]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to wearer dexterity?
  * [[Speed]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to wearer speed?
  * [[Appearance]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - attractiveness - FIXME penalty or bonus to wearer charisma?

So called "smart spices"  add bioengineering and synthetics to spices, bringing the mental abilities into play:
  * [[Intelligence]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to intelligence?
  * [[Will]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to willpower and will-based activity such as spellcasting, mysticism, or psionics?
  * [[Ingenuity]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to creativity - could include illicit or illegal compounds?
  * [[Awareness]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to awareness?
  * [[Reflexes]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to reflexes?
  * [[Charisma]] (-10 to 0 to +10) - penalty or bonus to others perception of you?

===== EXAMPLE CATEGORIES =====

===== SEE ALSO =====
[[Food]] :: [[Drinks]] :: [[wp>Spice]]

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