Cosmic Questions

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Originally Posted by Purple Snit

I'm working on some characters using the Cosmic Advantage [basically Demigods in a mortal world], and I had a few questions on how the advantage works.

I strongly recommend checking out GURPS Power-Ups 4: Enhancements, which has an entire section (basically a sub-chapter) on the Cosmic enhancement, what it can and cannot do, and how every existing version of it works (in detail).

1. Cosmic Mind Control vs. a mortal - does the Cosmic overcome the will roll and automatically affect the victim, or does it just bypass any non-Cosmic mental defences the target may have?

The latter. Mind Control (Cosmic, Irresistible attack, +300%) ignores every non-Cosmic defense against Mind Control that the victim has -- including Mind Shield and Immunity to Mind Control -- but the victim still gets a Will roll to resist.

2. An ordinary M-16 with AP ammo vs. Cosmic DR - does the DR block all the damage, or just the damage up to its value as usual, but ignoring the non-Cosmic AP effect? [e.g. Cosmic DR 10, damage rolled is 18 pi [2], does 8 get through, or nothing because Cosmic DR ignores non-Cosmic damage?]

DR (Cosmic, Defense, +50%) simply protects against attacks with (Cosmic, Irresistible attack, +300%). To offset Armor Divisor, you'd want to add Hardened to DR.

3. If someone with Cosmic on their ST score hits something with non-Cosmic DR, do they ignore the DR, and just go straight to damaging the HP?

You can't add Cosmic directly to ST -- but you can use the rules for modifying your ST-based damage from GURPS Power-Ups 4: Enhancements. If you use those rules to add Cosmic, Irresistible attack (+300%) to your punches, then yes, you ignore non-Cosmic DR.