05-25-2014, 04:12 PM | #1 |
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Breaking concentration + compartmentalized mind
If a creature with compartmentalized mind is concentrating with one of his compartments, and is attacked, does the attack have the potential to break his concentration? If so, how does that resolve?
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05-25-2014, 10:33 PM | #2 | ||
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05-25-2014, 10:59 PM | #3 |
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Re: Breaking concentration + compartmentalized mind
I think taking damage would have the potential to disrupt concentration. Dodging if it was handled by the other compartment would not.
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05-26-2014, 11:26 AM | #4 |
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Re: Breaking concentration + compartmentalized mind
This sounded right to me, but then I wondered... Did we ever ascertain if pain/shock penalties applied to compartments not in control of the body?
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05-27-2014, 01:12 PM | #5 |
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Re: Breaking concentration + compartmentalized mind
This was my thought exactly. Reading through comments on the GURPS forum, everyone seemed to treat one compartment as "controlling the body". But it wasn't clear whether only the compartment controlling the body was susceptible to shock. I'm still not sure that it's clear.
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05-27-2014, 02:03 PM | #6 |
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Re: Breaking concentration + compartmentalized mind
To the best of my knowledge, CM grants no protection to distractions and the like - all it does is give you an extra Concentrate Maneuver each round. You could certainly modify it to, say, ignore distractions from pain/damage (which is arguably something like High Pain Threshold, limited to only work for the CM).
Basically, to figure out effects, just treat the character as if all he did was use Concentrate last round. The exception would be if your ability can be disrupted by making an Active Defense, but you used a Maneuver other than Concentrate that allows for such, in which case you can defend without risking breaking the Concentrate. |
05-27-2014, 03:37 PM | #7 | |
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However the trait indeed says nothing about one or the other mind being somehow firewalled by the other one. |
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05-27-2014, 04:30 PM | #8 | |
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05-27-2014, 07:37 PM | #9 | |
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