05-05-2011, 12:45 AM | #1 |
Join Date: May 2011
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The Morphing Detective
When a character uses Morph to imitate another character, what are they imitating? I have a player in my current campaign who has a character with Morph that suspects another character is masquerading as a member of the opposite gender. His plan is to watch that character from hiding and mimic them.
So when someone mimics someone else using Morph, are they imitating the actual person, or what they can see? Would things such as birthmarks or moles that the Morphing character hasn't seen show up as well? |
05-05-2011, 12:54 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Re: The Morphing Detective
What they can see. Although I suppose you could get a Detect/Analyse to duplicate the whole body in unseen detail.
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05-05-2011, 11:55 AM | #3 | |
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05-05-2011, 02:49 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: L.I., NY
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Re: The Morphing Detective
I was going to say it's a setting specific detail. If the morph ability has a magic, psionic, or pseudo-science explanation, there's no reason that unseen details wouldn't be copied as well.
Then I remembered that there is a limitation that introduces flaws to morph so that it can be detected, so I changed my mind and would rule that a perfect copy, undetectable by external inspection, is the default for morph, and if there are any visible differences it is a limitation. |
05-05-2011, 03:15 PM | #5 | ||
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You don't need an MRI, or to look into a Centauri's pants, in order to morph into a humanoid creature with two hearts and six tentacle phalluses with a 4 foot reach. If you want to limit Morph to only what they can see visually and through an MRI Scan then you're talking about a "Needs External and Internal Visual Sample" Limitation, which I'd price at -40%, since it's very onerous but not quite as bad as the -50% "Must Devour Victim" Limitation. See Powers, p.74 for examples of Morph limitations. |
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05-05-2011, 05:15 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Re: The Morphing Detective
Only 4 feet?
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05-05-2011, 11:43 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: The Morphing Detective
I'm the player in question.
My view is that the text is unclear on the question. I think either interpretation would be reasonable - that it's what-you-see-is-what-you-get or the full morph. I've told Badmash that while I think the full-morph is right, I'm not going to fight any decision he comes up with. But one bit of text that I think strongly supports my case: you can morph into the appearance of anyone you can see or touch. I'm hard pressed to see how the "touch" part works unless a touch anywhere on the person means that you can turn into the person entire. If it's what-you-see-is-what-you-get, or in this case, what-you-touch-is-what-you-get, does that mean you have to run your hands over the entire person in order to morph into him? Or, say, if a blind morpher managed to grab an elephant's trunk, would he then morph into a snake? |
05-06-2011, 06:42 AM | #8 | |
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Location: Stuttgart, Germany
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Morph is a very powerful advantage, very very powerful, that's why it's worth 100 points. |
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05-06-2011, 11:16 AM | #9 | |
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05-06-2011, 11:42 AM | #10 | ||
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Something not enough GMs do is put in the appropriate limitations to make a RAW advantage fit their setting's power. The system is a tool-kit with lots of knobs and dials to tune a power as needed, Morph without limitations is pretty damn powerful and fully accurate, no MRIs needed. |
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