New Power Talent: Doll Control

AlexanderHowl · 06-29-2018, 08:00 PM

I just wanted to share a new power talent that I developed called Doll Control. I just took the Animal Control Talent and changed it so that it would apply to dolls instead of natural animals, as well as allowing for temporary animation of dolls through telekinesis. The definition of dolls is sufficiently broad so that it includes some forms of golems, vampires, zombies, etc, so it can serve as a surprising useful power under limited circumstances. Please tell me what you think.

Doll Control
Sources: Chi, Magical, Psionic, or Spirit
Focus: Dolls

Doll Control lets the user create and control dolls. Dolls are defined as any object that possesses the traits of Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30], Injury Tolerance (Unliving) [20] or (Homogeneous) [40], and Unhealing (Partial) [-20] or (Total) [-30] that bears some resemblance to fantastic or realistic living creatures (which includes some forms of golems, vampires, zombies, etc). Explanations include chi projection (Chi), magical animation (Magical), psionic manipulation (Psionic), and spiritual possession (Spirit).

Doll Control Talent
5 points/level

Doll Control Abilities

Advantages marked * involve direct mental contact, and require Specialized, Dolls Only, -25%. They work only on dolls (which includes some forms of golems, vampires, zombies, etc), though the nature of the dolls does not matter.

Allies (Dolls), with Summonable; Damage Resistance (Limited, Dolls, -60%); Detect (Dolls); Enhanced Defenses (Any; Limited, Dolls, -60%); Mind Control*; Mind Probe*; Mind Reading*; Mind Link (Any Doll); Possession*; Protected Power; Shapeshifting (Any Doll Form); Spirit Empathy*, Telecommunication*; and Telekinesis (Animation, -20% or -30%; Limited, Objects that bears some resemblance to fantastic or realistic living creatures only, -25%).

Prince Charon · 06-29-2018, 09:17 PM

Could fit a fairly wide range of campaignes. One of the more disturbing options (probably for Horror/Monster Hunters/Urban Fantasy) is a demon that at first the investigators think is the lonely ghost of a little girl who died of an illness.

edk926 · 06-29-2018, 10:22 PM

Given that moving dolls are inherently creepy, you could probably add Terror into that.

whswhs · 06-30-2018, 12:39 AM

I think I would suggest calling it Animation, as the abilities can be used more broadly than with dolls.

lvalero · 06-30-2018, 06:18 AM

I love it! It reminds me the puppet master powers of the Naruto series.

The most powerful puppet master can animate corpses or even "puppet" a living person!

http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Puppet_Technique

Quote:

If a puppeteer loses all puppets, it does not mean they are rendered completely helpless, as they could utilise the technique with corpses strewn across the battlefield; performing this tactic with a live person requires great cooperation and coordination or weakening the resisting enemy beforehand.

You may also consider

- Afflictions/Innate Attacks with cosmic enhacement "Can be cast from the doll instead from me" +100%
- Telekinesis with "Power Block" to block attacks to you using the doll as a shield.
- Healing "only for Dolls"
- Gadgeteer "only to invent weapons for dolls, armour for dolls, and dolls body parts"

AlexanderHowl · 06-30-2018, 07:26 AM

Thank you all for the positive comments. Terror is definately a good addition and Naruto was an inspiration. I had not thought about the other abilities, but they seem like a natural fit as well. Shielding with a doll would seem to be more of a combat perk rather than a power enhancement to me though.

06-29-2018, 08:00 PM	#1
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	New Power Talent: Doll Control I just wanted to share a new power talent that I developed called Doll Control. I just took the Animal Control Talent and changed it so that it would apply to dolls instead of natural animals, as well as allowing for temporary animation of dolls through telekinesis. The definition of dolls is sufficiently broad so that it includes some forms of golems, vampires, zombies, etc, so it can serve as a surprising useful power under limited circumstances. Please tell me what you think. Doll Control Sources: Chi, Magical, Psionic, or Spirit Focus: Dolls Doll Control lets the user create and control dolls. Dolls are defined as any object that possesses the traits of Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30], Injury Tolerance (Unliving) [20] or (Homogeneous) [40], and Unhealing (Partial) [-20] or (Total) [-30] that bears some resemblance to fantastic or realistic living creatures (which includes some forms of golems, vampires, zombies, etc). Explanations include chi projection (Chi), magical animation (Magical), psionic manipulation (Psionic), and spiritual possession (Spirit). Doll Control Talent 5 points/level Doll Control Abilities Advantages marked * involve direct mental contact, and require Specialized, Dolls Only, -25%. They work only on dolls (which includes some forms of golems, vampires, zombies, etc), though the nature of the dolls does not matter. Allies (Dolls), with Summonable; Damage Resistance (Limited, Dolls, -60%); Detect (Dolls); Enhanced Defenses (Any; Limited, Dolls, -60%); Mind Control; Mind Probe; Mind Reading; Mind Link (Any Doll); Possession; Protected Power; Shapeshifting (Any Doll Form); Spirit Empathy, Telecommunication; and Telekinesis (Animation, -20% or -30%; Limited, Objects that bears some resemblance to fantastic or realistic living creatures only, -25%).

06-29-2018, 09:17 PM	#2
Prince Charon Join Date: Dec 2012	Re: New Power Talent: Doll Control Could fit a fairly wide range of campaignes. One of the more disturbing options (probably for Horror/Monster Hunters/Urban Fantasy) is a demon that at first the investigators think is the lonely ghost of a little girl who died of an illness. __________________ Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted.

06-29-2018, 10:22 PM	#3
edk926 Join Date: Jan 2017	Re: New Power Talent: Doll Control Given that moving dolls are inherently creepy, you could probably add Terror into that.

06-30-2018, 12:39 AM	#4
whswhs Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS	Re: New Power Talent: Doll Control I think I would suggest calling it Animation, as the abilities can be used more broadly than with dolls. __________________ Bill Stoddard I don't think we're in Oz any more.

06-30-2018, 07:26 AM	#6
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: New Power Talent: Doll Control Thank you all for the positive comments. Terror is definately a good addition and Naruto was an inspiration. I had not thought about the other abilities, but they seem like a natural fit as well. Shielding with a doll would seem to be more of a combat perk rather than a power enhancement to me though.