Psi: What can you do with an astral accessory?

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by Gef

Just wanna be clear here: I can take a gun as signature gear, for a point, and make it an astral accessory, for a point, and inflict far more damage at far longer range than I could with a much more expensive Astral Sword ability, right? Or I could take a motorbike as an astral accessory and increase my spying radius more than a more expensive astral celerity ability, right? The accessory isn't merely cosmetic but works on the astral plane the same way it would in the real world. Is that the intent of the perk?

GEF

As pointed out by others, you'd have be superhumanly strong to have your motorcycle. But yes, you could have a gun if you have a real fetishistic attachment to one. However the Astral Sword does have some advantages. One is that it would be impossible to reload the astral gun without leaving the astral plane. Reloads are NOT eligible to be Signature gear. Also you only need to inflict 1/3 the opponents hit points, to banish them with the sword while the astral gun has to take the opponent's hit points below zero and then have them fail a consciousness or death check.

And if the situation arose, I'd let Astral Swords use Parry Missile to parry astral gun rounds in the astral planes (they move slower there) because I have a pro-sword prejudice.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Reloads are NOT eligible to be Signature gear.

Where does it say that? Isn't ammunition exactly the sort of thing covered by Consumable Signature Gear?

[David Johnston2]

Could be, but I don't remember ever reading about Consumable Signature Gear.

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Could be, but I don't remember ever reading about Consumable Signature Gear.

Shows up in Supers, on pg 81, and is referenced in Loadouts - Monster Hunters.

[Gef]

Thanks for all the input, especially the reminder that ranged weapons may not work well in distorted space.