Duplication for Speedsters

Anaraxes · 03-18-2023, 10:18 PM

I think you will have to invent a custom modifier. Many pros and cons to weigh, though. I'll have to think about it.

Just to add to the catalog of comparison, there's also a form of Super-Effort, "Multiplication", GURPS Supers p.26. (+20% to be able to work N times faster in parallel, explicitly forbidding faster learning or multiple combat maneuvers.) This wouldn't work well as a modifier on the base ability, since the effective levels of ATR from the dupes each being able to act is a huge part of the value of Duplication. Forbidding combat and learning from that seems like it'd be a limitation, not an enhancement. (It's an Enhancement as written because it lets you create even more dupes than your normally can, but only for working on non-combat tasks.)

If all the dupes are hit by an Area attack, does this speedster take N times the damage? (You could argue for some attacks (like fire) that each dupe is only exposed for 1/Nth the time, so no, it all adds up to unity; other attacks, like fragmentation, means you could get hit more than if there were just one target.)

03-18-2023, 10:18 PM	#2
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Duplication for Speedsters I think you will have to invent a custom modifier. Many pros and cons to weigh, though. I'll have to think about it. Just to add to the catalog of comparison, there's also a form of Super-Effort, "Multiplication", GURPS Supers p.26. (+20% to be able to work N times faster in parallel, explicitly forbidding faster learning or multiple combat maneuvers.) This wouldn't work well as a modifier on the base ability, since the effective levels of ATR from the dupes each being able to act is a huge part of the value of Duplication. Forbidding combat and learning from that seems like it'd be a limitation, not an enhancement. (It's an Enhancement as written because it lets you create even more dupes than your normally can, but only for working on non-combat tasks.) If all the dupes are hit by an Area attack, does this speedster take N times the damage? (You could argue for some attacks (like fire) that each dupe is only exposed for 1/Nth the time, so no, it all adds up to unity; other attacks, like fragmentation, means you could get hit more than if there were just one target.)