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ETA: On a related note, I'd personally overhaul the Ascended build a lot if I was running this. Their natural mental Disadvantages make their native society completely unworkable as-described. At worst, they should've had a quirk-level Pride or Bad Temper and either quirk-level Uncongenial, Chauvinist, maybe both, or at worst Intolerance [-5] against everybody outside their core group, if they had a comfortable presence in space when the Shahar found them. That level of infrastructure simply does not get achieved by violently-introverted lone wolves; I consider their medicated stats excessive for a civilization at that level of technology that does not have access to genius superheroes who can make that stuff happen by themselves, let alone what they supposedly have on their own. This is all relative to the average Human, of course, who might be much easier to get down to a typical Willpower of 9 because we started at 10 with no major universal antisocial flaws, which provides a plausible reason why they'd try to make us into the obedient little butt-monkies with keen eyes and clever little hands who do the technical tasks like powerless bosses. They probably would've tried to make half or all of us into their bureaucrats, too, if they hadn't conquered the Tarcaseru first, because we get along so well compared to everybody else in the setting. Last edited by Gold & Appel Inc; 02-25-2015 at 05:37 AM. |
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02-25-2015, 07:37 AM | #13 |
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How long is "a long time" here? As-written, these guys (expletive deleted) hate each other, and everybody else. How did they ever get massive, cooperative industrial stuff done, even given an indefinite time-frame?
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02-25-2015, 09:29 AM | #14 |
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Bad temper, Loner, Selfish, Oblivious, Curious --- Oh, and broad minded. I have no idea why they have broad minded if they only . If anything they would function better in a large society -- one where mistakes can be moved on from. The [-5] intolerance is a fair start (though I think a group that large is [-10]). I'm trying to imagine what else would make a society unable to function at sizes larger than 300. Perhaps a tendency to factionalism? I think the broad minded, Oblivious, and curious are an attempt to make the society work, but I'm not seeing it. The really hard part is that its quite possible what makes us different from animals is not our intelligence, but our ability to communicate and function in very large groups.
I personally get the impression the author was trying to recoup all those points he spent on their arms -- the octopus build is insanely expensive, particularly for the benefit it gives you (no, not even +12 to grappling is worth 100 points). I did a rework where they have 'four' arms -- meaning that they only have the ability to do the work of four hands, and are doubling up limbs for a lot of their work. I also made their arms short as well as flexible (hydrostats really struggle with swinging things compared to endoskeletons). I'm debating adding extra legs to indicate their stability from multiple limbs as well. The ascended are especially weird for me, because their shape is something of a deja vu moment for me. I built a set of aliens with an emphasis on physiology a while back and one of the things I got was a swimming, climbing invertebrate with 12 limbs and a prehensile tail. It ended up with six tentacles, six fins, and filling a very similar ecological niche to the ascended. Half of me thinks of treating them the same. The other half imagines what they would think of each other.
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The primary limitation of short arms is swing damage and the distance at which you can effectively wield a weapon. If you observe an octopus or the trunk of an elephant, you will notice that the ability to swing something is extremely limited. Also notice that the ability to move around a sizeable object (relative to body size) quickly and accurately is limited to closer to the base of the limb. they can do simple grabs at the full reach of the limb though. Making all of their arms "short" does nothing to change how long the limbs they use to swing through the trees are. Its an exercise in "Pay for the effects, not for the name of the advantage" The legless is a good thought. Though I was thinking of trees, but I suppose that's covered with the arms, even if I'm only using 4. ----- As a side note, is there a place where using more than two arms increases your ST rating for using a weapon? you seem to have implied that there is one...
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Probably the same way it works for badges and wolverines. They're both overcome with the need to procreate just long enough to get over the raging territoriality they normally posses.* If the native Ascended had 12's for Self-control... it would be easier to see them as working together, but 9's does make it hard to imagine. * And that could be it. It's possible the procreation "put up with another of your species" imperative lasted long enough for the occasionally collaboration, often enough to get to long-distance communication. From there you can collaborate without needing to make all those SC rolls. And this ties in with the "Drug", if it's just hormone treatments keeping the Ascended in the "calm before and after procreation" phase... |
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