"Telekinesis enhancing weapon" how to build?

[Dunadin777]

Originally Posted by Lex_BR

ways to get this weapon :

- Be a Faranian Justicar (space paladin)
- Kill a Justicar
- Buy it off the black market for an outstanding sum of money from someone who has killed a Justicar.

the two latter options come with a hidden cost, however.
as soon as word got out that you have purchased a fallen justicar's power-staff for your own crazy billionaire private collection you can be damn sure it wont take too long for a very live justicar and his followers to burst through your front door to retrieve it by any means necessary.

to summ it up:

lex luthor has a lot of money but still couldnt buy a green lantern ring if he wanted to...at least not without bringing the wrath of the lantern corps on him.. does the ring cost money or CP?

I would say the issue is if the PC can just pay a huge amount of money and take the risk, it should be bought with money. If you, as the GM, would require some RP'ed plot to get it in addition to other concerns, then it'd be points.

Going with the Lex Luthor example. He can get a nuke or even kryptonite without it being covered in the comics. He regularly pulls one 'out of his hat' and no fans really complain. Note that kryptonite is pretty rare and special, but if he can get it without any plot-time or page-space devoted to the action, then he must not be paying points for it. If Lex pulled a Green Lantern ring on Supes in the middle of a fight, and there was no page-space devoted to how he got it, fans would cry foul. He has to have a really good plot explanation for owning it, so it is more an issue of points.

That's how I see it. So as Genesis said, it's about how you want it to play out in the campaign. Personally I'd lean towards buying with money for anything that can conceivably be mass-produced, even if it isn't in the specific setting. So if someone can use any old staff (ie it isn't attuned to the intended Justicar) it's bought with GURPS bucks.