08-05-2013, 05:27 AM | #11 |
Join Date: Mar 2013
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Re: Psi: What can you do with an astral accessory?
As I read it, the Accessory perk is only for non weapon items. It's so you can always have a small penknife or flashlight when you need it, not so you can sneak guns past customs.
If one of my players took a gun as an astral accessory, I'd allow it (after first telling him that i would rather he didn't and that it's a bad idea). However on the astral plane it wouldn't shoot.
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08-05-2013, 06:47 AM | #12 | |
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Re: Psi: What can you do with an astral accessory?
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I'd base damage on Will, or perhaps on Astral Travel and/or Astral Projection Talent in some way, rather than on strength, or on the normal damage for a mundane firearm. If the Astral Sword ability also exists, though, it will have some significant advantages over the much cheaper option (or Astral Accessory simply wouldn't be allowed for weapons). Likewise, I might allow an Astral Only version of ranged Innate Attacks, if the players really want to have the option of ranged Astral combat. One of my ideas for the Astral Plane is that you simply can't fight there, in the manner you fight in the material realm, unless you're using telepathy (and maybe not even then - maybe it's all social engineering). I'd also allow Astral Accessory without Signature Gear, for accessories that only exist on the Astral Plane, weapons or otherwise.
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08-05-2013, 07:57 PM | #13 | |
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Re: Psi: What can you do with an astral accessory?
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At any rate I don't really see the abuse. You have to have the item. It's restricted in the same ways that gear in the real world does and it may or may not be subject to wonky Astral physics on top of that. Getting a motorbike or a MBT or the USS Nimitz is prohibitively expensive in terms of Signature Gear plus ST or Payload (and really you can say, "Yes you can have anything as an Astral Accessory but you aren't allowed to buy Payload to get around the BL restriction in this game."). So sure you can have your trusty .45s. Of course you can have bullets too! That's going to cost you at least 4 points though. This doesn't mean guns work everywhere in the Astral Plane, and it doesn't mean that they won't be a problem in Inner Realms with legal or supernatural gun control... |
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08-07-2013, 11:19 AM | #14 | |
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Re: Psi: What can you do with an astral accessory?
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Although I'd note that both of these examples, the gun and motorbike, are likely to be pretty useless on most versions of the Astral, where distances and times tend not to work right. Missiles tend not to move once they leave your hand, even if you can see far enough to make them worthwhile, and things are separated by times more than distances - a vehicle mostly doesn't get you anywhere out of sight faster than walking.
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08-07-2013, 11:49 AM | #15 | |
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And if the situation arose, I'd let Astral Swords use Parry Missile to parry astral gun rounds in the astral planes (they move slower there) because I have a pro-sword prejudice. |
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08-07-2013, 08:56 PM | #16 |
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08-07-2013, 09:19 PM | #17 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Re: Psi: What can you do with an astral accessory?
Could be, but I don't remember ever reading about Consumable Signature Gear.
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08-07-2013, 10:20 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Mar 2010
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08-09-2013, 12:47 AM | #19 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Yucca Valley, CA
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Re: Psi: What can you do with an astral accessory?
Thanks for all the input, especially the reminder that ranged weapons may not work well in distorted space.
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