11-11-2021, 06:45 PM | #11 | ||
Join Date: Nov 2021
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Re: Telepathic Learning w/o breaking the game
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Yeah, I'm going to pass on this ability for now. My main concern is less about convincing the GM than convincing myself. I like the utility of it but I really don't want to risk the game balance by having something that allows us to get information before the GM is ready for us to have it! Quote:
The best way to run it would be to say you can only draw RAW skills and only get generic information such as the principles of accounting and filing without client-specific data. That seems like the spirit of the ability but it seems illogical that if you could rifle through someone's brain to get skills, there would be some mystical privacy barrier! |
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11-11-2021, 08:43 PM | #12 | ||||
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Re: Telepathic Learning w/o breaking the game
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GURPS is a pretty fine-grained, detailed system. Most typical fictional characters don't just have one ability, stacked until the system breaks with every point that can be stuffed into it. They have a whole set of related skills and abilities that work together. A real swordmaster doesn't just have Broadsword-30; they have half a dozen or more other skills related to their training. In this case, the psi spy doesn't just have Borrow Skill. To be effective at those intrusion and data-theft applications, he needs some other abilities -- in this case, Telereceive (as PP has it; Mind Probe in Basic). That's the psi ability that lets you pull out answers to specific questions from one individual's knowledge, as opposed to the generic cloning you get from Borrow Skill. Quote:
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11-11-2021, 11:25 PM | #13 | |
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
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Re: Telepathic Learning w/o breaking the game
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Something like that could justify only having Borrow Skill. Thanks for pointing that out. A lot of powers have a lot of their details taken care of subconsciously, or mystically - the döppelganger shapeshifter doesn't consciously place each cell and pigment in his body in the correct place to mimic his subject; most times he won't even be able to see all of his subject, but the mole under the blouse is mimicked nevertheless. Last edited by transmetahuman; 11-11-2021 at 11:28 PM. |
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11-12-2021, 06:24 AM | #14 | |
Join Date: Jun 2013
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