Statting up a Dullahan

[Cowrie]

Originally Posted by Varyon

Away from my books for the near future, but with something like this, I’d suggest eating the elephant one bite at a time - define the benefits and drawbacks of a permanently detached head and see if there are any GURPS traits that come close to such effects and work from there. You’ll also want to consider what actions the character can take to reduce/eliminate the drawbacks (and/or other Advantage he/she might have that would have a mitigating effect). Don’t be afraid to invent new Advantages based roughly on the cost of existing ones rather than trying to contort existing ones with a paragraph of Modifiers.

Breaking it down in this method, and assuming that I won't use an Ally, I've got:

Permanently Detatched Head Pros:
Movable viewpoint - Clairsentience (Increased Range, x20, +40%; Location Always at Head, -80%) [30]
Ranged Bite Attack - Natural Weapon (Crushing; Bite, +0%; Limited Use, Thrown, -5%; Ranged, +100%; Single, -20%) [9] + Weak Bite (No Bite, +50%) [-3]
Doesn’t have to view and work from the same angle - Maybe Flexible only for close quarters penalties or an Unusual Posture perk?
Can’t be decapitated - Injury Tolerance (No Neck; Can Still be choked or strangled, -40%) [3]

Permanently Detatched Head Cons:
Head position unstable unless held, secured or resting on flat surface - Unstable Head (Mitigator, Ribbon or Scarf to Secure Head, -60%) [-2] (Refluffed Klutz, equally inconvenient, but more likely to cause minor injury than expensive property damage)
Head has no mobility of it’s own - ?
Head can be lost, in which case body must work by touch - Blindness (Accessibility, only for actions using body, -20%; Mitigator, Head can see or is touching body, -60%) [-10]

Originally Posted by Gumby Bush

The Kaldane build you link to assumes the proximity of head and body for driving, which it sounds like you don't want.



The Minimal Software Template, for our purposes, is essentially IQ-10 [-100]; Dead Broke [-25]; (It adds reprogrammable and a social stigma because it's software, but that doesn't apply here)

Thanks, though upon further reflection, I'll probably use the stuff I mentioned above instead of an ally. It seems simpler and/or less cluttered.