: I don't think the stuff about mandrake roots is
: necessarily wrong.
In-game, it is, because beserks can hack up madrake plants with ease. With the noticable side-effect of not dying :)
: In fact, it's not even as if Bungie
: made that up: /real/ mandrake roots are said to scream
: when their dug up, killing any human listener
Ah yeah, that is an actual myth in RL. However, GURPS gets that from our myth, nowhere is it ever stated in Myth myth that such a thing happens. Btw, I think Shakespeare mentioned the mandrake plant somewhere....
: (actually, they don't, but they do have a disturbingly
: similar shape to that of a human child, which
: presumably led to the myth).
Really? I've never actually seen a real one, I've just heard the legend of its shriek when pulled from the ground.
-Welly
