Let me expand on that a little:
I've said before that I think scripted effects when you take drugs would be cool. A little something more than just altering your stats..something that tells you how you're feeling, gives you a distorted perception of the world around you etc.
That'd be cool, but, I had a grander idea in mind when I started writing this post.
Drugs are an industry. There's many steps involved in the manufacture, production and distribution of them. At the moment, ICly, to the best of my knowledge, we're only scratching the surface.
We have a chemical skill! let's use it!
I think it'd be awsome to have chemistry kits, packed with interesting ingredients, that chemists can combine, to create drugs. I don't just mean, mixing up a batch of V-202, I mean, custom drugs.
Think about it; you have 20 ingredients, each with it's own unique characteristics. One might make you feel stronger, another might make you fart uncontrollably, another could kill you. whatever. The chemist, could combine ingredients, to create totally new drugs, the effects of which would depend not only on what they'd used, but what quantities, and how that reacts with other ingredients they've used. Some substances would simply make a liquid, a solid, so you could press it as tablets, etc.
You could mix then, stir them, shake them, cook them, freeze them, all kinds of things, all of which would change the properties of the substance you're creating. Then you could name it, and throw it on the streets to see what happens!
I dunno about anyone else, but personally, I could see that being a lot of fun. You could make it so that inspecting an ingredient would do a check against your intelligence, and chemicals skill, and give you some idea of what an ingredient would do to a person.
Lots of potential?
I think so.
