New Quirks: Availability through Brainbugs, Psychosurgery and Memetic Counselling?

[vicky_molokh]

Greetings, all!

Okay, so now we have lots of new Quirks, some of them pretty cool. Some of them actually useful. So is it possible to gain them through Psychosurgery, Memetic Counselling, and/or Brainbugs? E.g. Decisive is kinda neat for officers, and extra neat if it's switchable.
Methodical is also very occasionally useful. Ditto Mind-Numbing Magnetism. IOW, some of them are very nice if you can switch them on/off in advance - something that brainbugs can do (and probably AI modular abilities should logically be able to).

Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

E.g. Decisive is kinda neat for officers, and extra neat if it's switchable.

Switchable quirks would be perfectly good Controllable Disadvantage perks.

[Phil Masters]

"Switchable Disadvantage" is an established perk; no reason why it shouldn't encompass quirks.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

"Switchable Disadvantage" is an established perk; no reason why it shouldn't encompass quirks.

AFAIK it normally comes with a Will/HT roll required for activation. And I also recall some objections to just slapping NDRR on Perks.

[Phil Masters]

It would seem perfectly reasonable to replace the Will/HT roll with some other kind of trigger. (A hypnotic technique, electromagnetic deep brain stimulation, a spoonful of live yoghurt to trip a biochemical switch...) Or just dump the need for a trigger when all that get instantiated is a quirk-level feature.

This is a one-point perk we're talking about, remember. Getting all rules-lawyer about something which belongs in the fuzzy "GM's judgement" zone seems like missing the point.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

It would seem perfectly reasonable to replace the Will/HT roll with some other kind of trigger. (A hypnotic technique, electromagnetic deep brain stimulation, a spoonful of live yoghurt to trip a biochemical switch...) Or just dump the need for a trigger when all that get instantiated is a quirk-level feature.

This is a one-point perk we're talking about, remember. Getting all rules-lawyer about something which belongs in the fuzzy "GM's judgement" zone seems like missing the point.

Of course a given quirk or perk may be favored by a religious and/or philosophical group. Being able to turn quirks and perks on and off at will could aid in certain types of undercover work.

[Phil Masters]

Given that a lot of disads can be temporarily induced by nanotech treatments in TS, doing the same with (some) quirks should be perfectly feasible. Going through the new PDF and noting which would be reasonable candidates is left as an exercise... But anything that's specifically marked as the quirk-level version of a nanotech-inducible disad would of course be on the list.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Given that a lot of disads can be temporarily induced by nanotech treatments in TS, doing the same with (some) quirks should be perfectly feasible. Going through the new PDF and noting which would be reasonable candidates is left as an exercise... But anything that's specifically marked as the quirk-level version of a nanotech-inducible disad would of course be on the list.

Would a device that lets someone quickly and reliable change accents (with no chance of slipping out of the accent) be possible? It's easier to learn a language than to learn to speak exactly like a real native speaker. So the ability to get the accent perfect would really aid a spy.