01-06-2013, 01:46 PM | #1 |
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[Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
Leech "only affects living beings", but Gurps Powers says nothing about the SAPIENCE of your victims.
Can psionic/magic/whatever Leech and its various enhancements affect normal animals, plants and/or anything alive with a IQ score of 5 or less? On a side note, if Leech "only affects SAPIENT living beings", the Morph ability of the Vampirism power (GURPS Powers p.135) needs a "Sapient Forms Only" limitation, but I can't decide the price (-10% or -20%?), any suggestions? Thanks. |
01-06-2013, 04:48 PM | #2 |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
Leech affects living things. Id doesn't say anything about their brains because there's no restriction based on brains unless you LIMIT it to such. With a limitation :)
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01-06-2013, 06:23 PM | #3 | |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
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Rules-as-intended, I do believe Kromm has posted something about it being intended to work on targets with IQ 1 or higher and that if we wanted it to work on IQ 0 targets we could flip that as a zero-cost feature (which stops it from working on IQ 1+ targets) or a +100% modifier (which lets it work on both). I vaguely recall something about a modifier to make it work on non-living targets instead / as well ... I'd suggest searching the forums. I'd price that as a -20% Accessibility modifier. |
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01-07-2013, 01:27 AM | #4 |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
I would say greater than -20% as while sapients are rather common, it's much harder to hunt secretly. The world is full of trees with more than enough hit points to keep a plant-pire happy.
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
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01-07-2013, 10:19 AM | #6 |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
much more importantly, there are much larger ethical issues: feeding off of cattle gets you labeled a theif at the very worst, feeding off of people gets you labeled as a monster.
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01-07-2013, 12:06 PM | #7 |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
Add Steals Other Score: FP and suddenly you're just a friendly neighbourhood daemon.
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01-07-2013, 10:55 PM | #8 |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
Now a days, people keep a look out for missing pets as in the real world it can be a sign of up and coming serial killers.
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01-08-2013, 12:01 PM | #9 |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
Thanks for all the replies, if Leech works fine even with nonsapient animals, my character is going to add a new quirk: Loves draining cats for sport.
Still, it sounds weird Steal Youth can give you eternal youth by draining the occasional cat... |
01-08-2013, 12:13 PM | #10 | |
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Re: [Powers] Leech and nonsapient victims
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It's dangerous to drain cats alone! Take THIS!
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