Kinak has mentioned on the podcast that effects (specifically debuff effects) are grouped into categories. (He said Rasping Teeth belongs to a certain category of effects which can only be removed by certain things.) So I was thinking about what these categories might be, and whether we could spade any more of them.
Many of the more obvious categories are already listed on this page (Music, Fishing Lures/Lines, etc.), but we also have:
- "Etheric-like" effects (Etheric, Slags Poisoning, various Sight, etc.), cleared by Slags Antidote
- "Lung" effects (Coughing fit, Spore Cloud, Dark Smoke, Degenerate Mists, Rooted Spores), cause coughing post-combat, cleared by ???
- "Gained by ingestion" effects, gained by eating food or drugs: (Sugar Rush, Hot Chocolate, Pep In Your Step), cleared by throwing up
- "Mushroom" effects (Altered State, Fae Blessing, various Introspection, etc.), extended with fragile puffball
- "Strange Injection" effects (Blood Toxin, Mild Neurotoxin, Dream State, Weighted), cleared by MBR Antidote
- "Eye" effects (Clear Eyes?, Blue Eyes?, Blurred Eyes?, Dazzled?, Party Lights?), cleared by installing new eyes
- "Hand" effects (Powdered Knuckles, Missing Hand?, Crushed Hand?)
Others?
I'm not really sure what category Rasping Teeth would fit into. Maybe with Torn Flesh?
Seems like the various "drunk" effects could be a category as well, but I'm not sure they have any game impact.