10-06-2012, 09:35 PM | #1 |
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[Powers] Resurrection with Option to Cancel
Powers: Divine Favor has two methods to bring people back to life.
Raise Dead (p. 13) uses a retroactive permanent Affliction of Extra Life. Resurrection (p. 16) uses an temporary Affliction of both Regen and Unkillable 1. I'd like a power build that allows you to resurrect the dead, permanently (as the two above abilities do), but allows the option for you to put down those that you've personally resurrected easily. I thought immediately of the Cancellation enhancement for Affliction listed on Psionic Powers, p. 13. That wouldn't really be useful on the Resurrection build (since it employs temporary affliction on a corpse to "make it better"). But maybe it's reasonable to allow it on the Raise Dead build? Except that it explicitly retroactively permanently afflicts Extra Life, so it gets "used up" immediately, and maybe can't be "cancelled" anymore. So is Cancellation reasonable to do this? Otherwise, the only thing I could think of was adding into the resurrecting Affliction some sort of permanent super-aggressive Weakness or high level of Susceptible or something along those lines that would be specific to your abilities alone. Or maybe some modified Self-Destruct (Depends on Will of Resurrecter, not on age) with Reduced Time to make it happen more quickly?
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10-06-2012, 10:06 PM | #2 |
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Re: [Powers] Resurrection with Option to Cancel
Maybe Add Terminal Condition as an Afflcition.
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10-06-2012, 10:13 PM | #3 |
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Re: [Powers] Resurrection with Option to Cancel
GURPS Fan's Poor Man's Resurrection is an interesting possibility if you can live with the wonkiness. The biggest problem would probably be that you can only have one resurrectee at a time.
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10-06-2012, 10:17 PM | #4 | |
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Re: [Powers] Resurrection with Option to Cancel
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But it would be cheaper to reduce Permanent +300% to Permanent +150% and define "can be canceled by raiser" as the overt antidote, if you can live with there being other discoverable ways of canceling the effect, like excommunication, holy curses, etc. |
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10-07-2012, 12:52 AM | #5 |
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Re: [Powers] Resurrection with Option to Cancel
No. Neither build has any ongoing effects that can be cancelled. If you afflict Extra Life, it's used up and gone. If you afflict Regeneration+Unkillable, the effects are gone once the affliction's duration ends (within minutes).
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10-07-2012, 08:13 AM | #6 |
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Re: [Powers] Resurrection with Option to Cancel
This generally adds a way other people could use to terminate your Affliction. It certainly could be a way you could do so as well. Although in this case, switching the +300% version of Permanent for the +150% version would be a more cost effective way to have a build with a Terminal Condition built-in. In either case these approaches wouldn't be appropriate if I wanted it to be impossible for anyone to undo my Affliction besides me.
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So in the end, barring an official ruling that this is plain wrong, I think it makes sense to use Cancellation and interpret that retroactively as well, if I want a build that allows only the raiser to put down the raised. Although I've thought about it and I think Permanent +150% that involves using an incantation to terminate retroactively the Extra Life Affliction is actually what I want. It would be known to the raiser, of course, but could be researched or discovered by others and that seems fine.
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10-07-2012, 08:23 AM | #8 |
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Re: [Powers] Resurrection with Option to Cancel
Good point, the resurrector's death isn't meant to kill the resurrectees.
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10-08-2012, 01:20 AM | #9 | |
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10-08-2012, 01:53 AM | #10 | |
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It's loosely based on some resurrection abilities seen in Lovecraftian fiction. Naruto (an anime) also has a chakra-based resurrection technique which is similar.
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