04-13-2011, 10:11 AM | #21 |
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Re: Alternate Form that's a Split Personality?
I checked that out on Wikipedia (seems cool!). Yeah, pretty similar concept, to model that you'd also need a similar build as well. The fictional trope of the hero or anti-hero that has a powerful (often superhuman) Alternate Form that has a distinct and sometimes malevolent personality and identity is common enough that it should be playable under GURPS (and thanks to everyone's help here - with a special shout out to SuedodeuS - it is). Hopefully one day someone here wants to do something similar and finds this thread, or I stumble upon their thread and offer them some guidance after not only having built but GMed a player with a build like this.
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04-13-2011, 10:49 AM | #22 |
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Re: Alternate Form that's a Split Personality?
Heh, the first thing which popped to mind for me was Pandora Breedlswight and Hugo, from Ironwood, which probably dates me a bit.
Hugo only went away after having sex, and he looked different each time he appeared... I'd do it as an Enemy (Possessed, seized at 1/3 HT), then give the enemy a spirit like template which involves seizing and incorporating the victim's body into its materialized form which happens only when its summoning condition is met. Exorcism can be a decent banishment requirement, especially if the exorcism only breaks the current possession. Mind you, I'm not sure I'd allow a player to play both the target and the enemy. |
04-13-2011, 10:50 AM | #23 | |
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For game purposes, it seems to me that a Delusion needs to be demonstrably false, or be generally believed to be demonstrably false. That gets you out of the problems with religions. Someone with small Delusions may also be able to rationalise them, in the sense of admitting that "yes, here is a situation where it isn't true at present but it will be soon, and it also applies in other examples", and so on. |
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04-13-2011, 12:12 PM | #24 | ||
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And the other thing is this player is a real star roleplayer, and is almost like an assistant GM in coming up with ideas, building things out, and also reigning himself in - quite the anti-munchkin. So I'm not worried. But I also realize not all players are like that...
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04-13-2011, 12:32 PM | #25 | |
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Because there's something wrong and sick about that strongly held and influential a belief that one isn't even willing to consider the possibility, even for the sake of a hypothetical scenario, that their belief might be untrue - and that "wrongness" and "sickness" in GURPS terms will manifest as reaction penalties from people who don't believe with as much intensity. For instance, we all generally know (and believe, because it's demonstrably true) Earth is round and revolves around the Sun. But I know if I encountered someone that got entirely irrational and belligerent whenever a discussion led to talk about how people used to (and perhaps that a very small minority still do) believe in a Flat Earth geocentric model, or got out of his mind if anyone suggested a hypothetical where this false idea was true (like maybe starting a campaign on a Flat Geocentric Earth), I would react at a penalty against that person; they'd seriously rub me the wrong way because there'd be something very wrong - delusional - about them. You could argue this is more an OPH, but in the end they lead to the same game effect so what's in a name? Anyway, just how I play it.
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04-13-2011, 12:37 PM | #26 | |
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Oh, and Lecherousness is a mild term when you're talking about the Ironwood setting, Bill Willingham is known more for "Fables" with DC Comics and the rpg art he did while working for TSR as a staff artist, but Ironwood was quite memorable. |
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04-13-2011, 07:18 PM | #27 |
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Re: Alternate Form that's a Split Personality?
You could give the entire party a delusion. No one is going to believe them when they say their friend is possessed by a demon, unless that is a fairly common circumstance in the game world...
And don't forget stress atavism as a possible Disad.
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04-13-2011, 07:19 PM | #28 |
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Bill Willingham worked for DC Comics? That's news to me.
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04-13-2011, 07:45 PM | #29 | |
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04-14-2011, 07:17 AM | #30 |
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