[GURPS: Ultratech] Implants without Unhealing?

nick012000 · 07-05-2009, 11:49 PM

How do you properly stat up implants that replace body parts, but are capable of healing themselves? Examples might be a liquid metal arm, or a pair of ear replacements that use biological ear material, but function as cable jacks (with the connections being made with piercings) and utilize a pair of chips as an intermediary between ear and brain? In the latter case, the chips might be Unhealing (and are certainly Electrical), but the ears themselves aren't.

Should Mitigator (Cybernetic) be treated as though it had Temporary Disadvantages, and removing Unhealing and/or Maintenance (for solid-state items that shouldn't need it) would increase its value? By my calculations, it's got -55% worth of Temporary Disadvantages on it; this puts its "original" value at -155.555... %, and I'm not entirely sure how that'd work. If that is correct, then removing Unhealing would knock it down to -116.666... %, and that doesn't seem quite right. Taken literally, you'd literally have to pay points to get a disadvantage, and that seems off.

EDIT: Oops, wrong forum. Ask the mods to move, please.

Langy · 07-06-2009, 03:42 PM

I'd just increase the value of the Mitigator to -80% instead of -70%. Since -80% is the highest possible limitation cost, it doesn't much matter how much or how little it would actually turn up to be.

This way you get less points back for the disadvantage in question - i.e. it's worth less as a disadvantage if it isn't unhealing.

nick012000 · 07-07-2009, 01:15 AM

Fair enough.

Another question: if you've got a holdout laser Disguised as an earring (x2 Cost), and have it rigged to fire with a DNI (and you display a crosshair on a HUD and aim with your head), do you need Extra Arm (Weapon Mount) to fire it hands-free?

Langy · 07-07-2009, 01:33 AM

So long as it can be fired by, say, voice or something else, I don't see why you'd need Extra Arm (Weapon Mount). Gear can take the place of advantages, and that's just a special combination of gear. It's up to the GM if that technology exists in his universe, however. If you have a laser small enough to be an earing I don't see why you can't, though.

07-05-2009, 11:49 PM	#1
nick012000 Join Date: Jul 2009	[GURPS: Ultratech] Implants without Unhealing? How do you properly stat up implants that replace body parts, but are capable of healing themselves? Examples might be a liquid metal arm, or a pair of ear replacements that use biological ear material, but function as cable jacks (with the connections being made with piercings) and utilize a pair of chips as an intermediary between ear and brain? In the latter case, the chips might be Unhealing (and are certainly Electrical), but the ears themselves aren't. Should Mitigator (Cybernetic) be treated as though it had Temporary Disadvantages, and removing Unhealing and/or Maintenance (for solid-state items that shouldn't need it) would increase its value? By my calculations, it's got -55% worth of Temporary Disadvantages on it; this puts its "original" value at -155.555... %, and I'm not entirely sure how that'd work. If that is correct, then removing Unhealing would knock it down to -116.666... %, and that doesn't seem quite right. Taken literally, you'd literally have to pay points to get a disadvantage, and that seems off. EDIT: Oops, wrong forum. Ask the mods to move, please. Last edited by nick012000; 07-05-2009 at 11:58 PM.

07-06-2009, 03:42 PM	#2
Langy Join Date: May 2008 Location: CA	Re: [GURPS: Ultratech] Implants without Unhealing? I'd just increase the value of the Mitigator to -80% instead of -70%. Since -80% is the highest possible limitation cost, it doesn't much matter how much or how little it would actually turn up to be. This way you get less points back for the disadvantage in question - i.e. it's worth less as a disadvantage if it isn't unhealing.

07-07-2009, 01:15 AM	#3
nick012000 Join Date: Jul 2009	Re: [GURPS: Ultratech] Implants without Unhealing? Fair enough. Another question: if you've got a holdout laser Disguised as an earring (x2 Cost), and have it rigged to fire with a DNI (and you display a crosshair on a HUD and aim with your head), do you need Extra Arm (Weapon Mount) to fire it hands-free?

07-07-2009, 01:33 AM	#4
Langy Join Date: May 2008 Location: CA	Re: [GURPS: Ultratech] Implants without Unhealing? So long as it can be fired by, say, voice or something else, I don't see why you'd need Extra Arm (Weapon Mount). Gear can take the place of advantages, and that's just a special combination of gear. It's up to the GM if that technology exists in his universe, however. If you have a laser small enough to be an earing I don't see why you can't, though.