Compartmentalized Minds with different Stats

[JCurwen3]

Let's say I want to build a character with CM 3, meaning he has 4 CMs (mental maneuvers / compartments).

I want one to be IQ 20, two to be IQ 10, and one to be IQ 8. What's the best, fairest way to price that?

[Langy]

Either also buy Split Personality (if the different minds can assume control of the body without warning) or Alternate Form (if they reach consensus on who is in charge at any one time).

[JCurwen3]

Originally Posted by Langy

Either also buy Split Personality (if the different minds can assume control of the body without warning) or Alternate Form (if they reach consensus on who is in charge at any one time).

I thought about both...

The concept is an AI that basically has multiple CPUs, but each of them function at different capacities, sort of like a PC that has one Pentium I, two Pentium IIs, and a modern chip. But they're all ultimately the same mind, the same person.

So Split Personality wouldn't fit. As far as Alernate Form, it would work, it's just that it would paradoxically make the build more expensive than just buying an IQ of 20 and 3 levels of CM. The end result must be cheaper, because in the end what the guy has is less good than that.

I thought about cascading limitations on the bought up levels of IQ - selling down base IQ to 8, and then buying IQ+2 with "for 3 of 4 CMs" and the other IQ+8 (for the IQ 20 CM) with "for 1 of 4 CMs", or doing the opposite and having the base IQ bought up to 20 and having cascading limitations on the sold down levels. But I don't want to end up handing out discounts so good that the build makes the extra CM levels free either!

Or maybe limitations on the CM levels themselves, except that's not very scalable if I wanted to have a greater variability between the CMs (maybe one has higher Will, or another has TK and the others don't, etc.).

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

I thought about both...

The concept is an AI that basically has multiple CPUs, but each of them function at different capacities, sort of like a PC that has one Pentium I, two Pentium IIs, and a modern chip. ).

Call it a 10% nuisance effect on the CM.

[mhd]

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

The concept is an AI that basically has multiple CPUs, but each of them function at different capacities, sort of like a PC that has one Pentium I, two Pentium IIs, and a modern chip. But they're all ultimately the same mind, the same person.

Can they really be? If you operate on an IQ 8 level, are you really the same as your IQ 20 incarnation, even if you have the same memories? Especially for an AI, you're not just operating on different speeds, you're not able to tackle the same level of complexity, which is probably closer to having a different algorithm.

The inverse of ETS would be really helpful here as a temporary disadvantage…

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by mhd

Can they really be? If you operate on an IQ 8 level, are you really the same as your IQ 20 incarnation, even if you have the same memories? Especially for an AI, you're not just operating on different speeds, you're not able to tackle the same level of complexity, which is probably closer to having a different algorithm.

The inverse of ETS would be really helpful here as a temporary disadvantage…

The inverse of ETS is a low IQ taking more time for a positive dice modifier.

[mhd]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

The inverse of ETS is a low IQ taking more time for a positive dice modifier.

If only reality would work that way, too ;)

[Nosforontu]

Temporary Disadvantage on the lower intelligence Compartmentalized minds perhaps?

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by JCurwen3

As far as Alernate Form, it would work, it's just that it would paradoxically make the build more expensive than just buying an IQ of 20 and 3 levels of CM. The end result must be cheaper, because in the end what the guy has is less good than that.

This looks like Disadvantageous Alternate Form might fit.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Not another shrubbery

This looks like Disadvantageous Alternate Form might fit.

It isn't disadvantageous. I mean the 20 IQ is always there for any problem that needs it.