12-09-2013, 06:54 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Mülheim an der Ruhr
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costs of Modular abilities with disavantages
Hi, I'm not experienced in GURPS and will start a Sci-fi campaing with the possibiliy of chip entrance (*sorry if the term is wrong, my GURPS is in portuguese and I don't know some of the specific terms translation).
I want to make diferent kinds of chip entrance and I don't know how to price it. my problem is, the chip of lower TL come with a disavantage (-5 for every 2 points of skill) example: the chip with 4 points in "following*" skill bring also the "paranoic*"(-10) disavantage. the chip with 6 points in "battlesuit*" come with "Sadism*" (-15) disavantage. the disavantage only work while the chip is on and normal TL chips don't have this problem. I also want to make 2 kinds of Chip entrance, one of low TL, with always have de disavantage problem and a normal TL, with only have this problem with old program versions. solving with the price of the chip is also an option, but I'm not sure how to handle it. Thanks. |
12-09-2013, 07:11 AM | #2 |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: costs of Modular abilities with disavantages
If by "entrance", you mean the thing that the chip goes into to make its skill available to the person, the usual term is "socket".
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12-09-2013, 07:30 AM | #3 |
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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Re: costs of Modular abilities with disavantages
Build the disadvantage into each chip. The higher TL version without the disadvantage is simply more expensive.
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12-09-2013, 07:32 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Re: costs of Modular abilities with disavantages
Basically it looks like you've got chip slots that are disadvantageous "meta traits" and would count against the campaign's disadvantage limit. I do wonder though, if you have multiple sockets could more than one socket share a disadvantage, say three 2 point slots share a -15 point disadvantage?
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12-09-2013, 07:33 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: costs of Modular abilities with disavantages
Isn't this "Nuisance Effect" worth -1% per point the disadvantage costs?
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12-09-2013, 07:40 AM | #6 | |
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12-09-2013, 08:33 AM | #7 |
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lynn, MA
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