Re: [HOE] device problems

["Kai Tave" <kaitave@harborside.com>]

*Grimace*

I'll be honest...and it's just my opinion, mind you...but this sounds like
WAY more trouble than it's worth.  I just honestly can't think of a way to
do this with existing powers that makes sense, and I'm real wary of making
new Junker powers because they tend to get VERY complex VERY quickly.

It also does sound a bit powerful.  Kinda like the guy who wanted to make an
"anti-fear" generator.

I just don't know what to say on this one.  Sounds a mite tricky to me.

--Kai Tave

>O.K., one of my players has decided that he wants to try to create a device
>that can clone organic matter.The problem is that we don't know exactly
what
>powers he'd need to use and/or create for it.  This is a guy who's just
>finishing up a new power (called Tractor Beam) just so he can build The Rig
>from the Playstation game Wild 9.  What we're currently thinking is that
>it'd need a Healing device capable of resurrection just to get a spirit
>inside the cloned object and that it would also need Brains (for Aptitudes
>like Science: Biochemistry), Sensor (to read the DNA and chemical makeup of
>the cloned object), and Commo (simply because the thing is bound to need to
>display output).  Do you think he'd need to create a new power?  Basically,
>he wants to be able to analyze, for example, a cow and get a second, new,
>living cow in the out receptacle.  His thinking is that it could be used as
>a food source.  Yeah, I know, it'd be quite powerful, which is why I've
told
>him that if he did end up having to design the Clone power, it'd probably
>have a TN of AT THE VERY LEAST 13, if not 15 simply for game balance
>purposes.
>
>I'm also thinking that this power would need SOME way of being able to tell
>what kind of spirit to put in something just so you don't put, say, the
>spirit of an oak tree inside a cow or a German Shepard in a stalk of corn.
>Would that require the Brains of the thing to have an Academia: Occult,
some
>sort of special Science concentration, or what?  I'd say that it couldn't
>rely solely on the resurrection-capable device because, as I put it to him,
>my interpretation of that power is more or less to tell a spirit that's
just
>vacated its body something along the lines of "Hey, come back here!  You,
>uh... left the gas on!  Yeah, that's the ticket!"  How would it catch the
>spirit to be lured- perhaps using both Spirit Trap and Spirit Weapon in
>conjunction somehow?  In any event, we'd both really like to get some
>feedback on this, as it is a really cool idea (which I would definitely
slap
>some heavy chemical component costs on), and while strong, would really be
>something to reward him with if he pulled it off.
>
>Nick Zachariasen
>Editor Emeritus
>Trojan Times
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