02-26-2021, 05:30 AM | #41 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Insubstantiality
True, but that is not actually Flight either, as you can quite easily fall with Flight.
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02-26-2021, 08:13 AM | #42 | |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Insubstantiality
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02-26-2021, 10:36 AM | #43 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Insubstantiality
Again, heavy spoilers incoming!
IIRC, Rimmer actually has a few decent stealth/spy moments and... well... Rimmer being Rimmer, if he wasn't mostly or wholly insubstantial, then they wouldn't he wouldn't have had a hope of succeeding. ;) I'll add that the show is comedy driven, and wasn't the kind to sweat inconsistencies. So they sometimes ignored that Rimmer - an AI replicating a deceased member of the crew, represented with a holographic "body" - was always dependent on something "running" him. Whatever ran him also supplied his senses, and in some cases, let him do odd things like "drink". It wasn't that he physically ingested liquids, but that the program could simulate him being "drunk".
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02-26-2021, 07:25 PM | #44 | |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week: Insubstantiality
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To make Flight emulate ignoring gravity, the only thing you need to add under the Basic rules is that you cannot benefit from diving as described on B398. Probably a -5% limitation. (Logically, it might also have odd consequences if used in orbital reference frames, but that probably isn't intended for Insubstantiality. In most settings. Ghosts being unable to cling onto orbiting objects and instead being flung off on escape trajectories seems like something a setting in the style of Dr. McNinja might do. Though Dr. McNinja in particular quite firmly did not.) That leads me to a point of curiosity about Insubstantiality: what skills do you use for endurance and agility during insubstantial pseudoflight? (Analogous to Flight and Aerobatics or Running and Acrobatics.)
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