Heroic Safe Mode

[Fwibos]

Controllable Disadvantage: Split Personality would be what I use. Note that you can't snap back out of it once you turn it on.

Alternate form would work if you eventually want it off - you simply add things like aftermath and trigger to it to represent what causes it and the after effects.

Alternatively, it's a "cold berserk."

[Pragmatic]

Canonically, you could look up Mark Piotr Vorkosigan's writeup in the GURPS Vorkosigan Saga book.

He has four "split personalities" which show up in different stress situations.

From 3E, there's a character from GURPS Uplift (Jacob Demwa, IIRC?) who has a "split personality" show up when he needs it.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

From 3E, there's a character from GURPS Uplift (Jacob Demwa, IIRC?) who has a "split personality" show up when he needs it.

Yes, from the Uplift trilogy (the only one there is), it was indeed Demwa who had that, in the first book. I can't recall if it is included in his writeup in "GURPS Uplift 2nd Edition", or even if Demwa himself has a writeup there, but if you claim it's there, then you're almost certainly correct.

[Pragmatic]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

Yes, from the Uplift trilogy (the only one there is), it was indeed Demwa who had that, in the first book. I can't recall if it is included in his writeup in "GURPS Uplift 2nd Edition", or even if Demwa himself has a writeup there, but if you claim it's there, then you're almost certainly correct.

As someone who was lured to GURPS because of their licensing of the Uplift universe, I can tell you, yes, he DOES have a write-up in that book. :-)

[Gef]

Originally Posted by Fwibos

Controllable Disadvantage: Split Personality would be what I use.

Ditto; I've used it before. I actually like having one personality have the perk, and the other the full-blown disad: You control when you go into safe mode, but not when you come out. Lower it from the full-blown disad to the quirk Personality Change if the referenced "cooldown hug" works.

Of characters I built this way, one was a cold berserk, and the other was a psionic assassin with a Jekyll-like cover ID created by means of psychic surgery. She didn't just memorize a cover story, she became it, and forgot (Amnesia) all about her other skillset. This second character, I did not play myself; I built her for a player (my wife) who wanted a dark secret of which the character was unaware. She entered the campaign as Dr Jekyll, unaware of the circumstances that would trigger her secret mission. It was a brief campaign, but fun.