The Anti-Neo?

[WhammeWhamme]

Okay. I had a cool idea for a character (inspired by renting Simone on DVD);

They're not a human. They're not even a conventional AI; they're a sentient computer program/virus that was launched onto the internet. Well, not exactly a virus; sort of a virus 'policeman' that became sentient. (There's a long back story).

Anyway. The powers are the interesting/unbalancing part. In cyberspace, they're pretty much unbound in their powers. In the real world, they've bugged much of the world with inactive nanites, so she can create devices at will just about anyway.

My initial thought on how to simulate this:
Big Power Pool, limited to technological sfx. 1/2 phase to change, no roll. This means unlimited variety in Cyberspace, and there powers also get a 'cyberspace only' power limitation... which = muy powerful. In the real world, she needs to create devices (which would have some kind of limitation to represent that they're breakable)... but the powers in the real world are transdimensional (which reduces the total AP available), unless she actives her 'Robot copy' Duplication power (which gives the enemy something to shoot at...).

Anyway. I've since thought about that idea, and I've concluded having a character operate from another dimension might be a bad thing.

So. Thoughts?

[Fireg0lem]

First, rent and watch Ghost in the Shell.

Second, get your email working again, dang it :nya:

Third, to address your actual question: consider buying the character lots of Followers that are in the real world as a way to do this...anything nanite-infected gets paid for as a Follower. This also gets your players something to fight directly.

[WhammeWhamme]

First, rent and watch Ghost in the Shell.

Second, get your email working again, dang it :nya:

Third, to address your actual question: consider buying the character lots of Followers that are in the real world as a way to do this...anything nanite-infected gets paid for as a Follower. This also gets your players something to fight directly.

1) Okay... I'll try. Genre?

2) Well, I can still receive fine, and I can send via hotmail.

3) NPC? You think this is an _NPC_?

Actually, I haven't decided how I want to use this idea. It'd have great RP op as a hero.

[Fireg0lem]

1) Okay... I'll try. Genre?

2) Well, I can still receive fine, and I can send via hotmail.

3) NPC? You think this is an _NPC_?

Actually, I haven't decided how I want to use this idea. It'd have great RP op as a hero.

1) Ghost in the Shell is a cyberpunk anime. The Wachowski brothers drew inspiration from it when making The Matrix.

2) Cool. I'll send you some questions, then.

3) If you want a workable PC out of such a character, then I agree, you need to change some stuff - a character that exists only in cyberspace is going to be pretty much impossible to run. My advice is to have the character be able to "transfer" between cyberspace and robotic bodies in the real world, but also be able to do minor stuff (like taking over machines) in the real world when in cyberspace...but have the actual "character" be the robot shell. In any case, I direct you back to #1 for further inspiritation.

[Witch Doctor]

You could use a transdimensional summoning to bring things into the real world.

I have a similar concept I created several years ago called "Box".

The backstory is that it was orignally a black box in a high energy research lab doing research on interdimensional travel (which, in this particular world, has never worked in a controlled environment succesfully - which doesn't prevent scientists from continuing to try).
The whole lab blew up during an experiment and nothing was left but a crater. Many top scientists were effectively disintegrated.
The black box recorded all information in the lab during the explosion and was taken to be analyzed.
There, it was discovered that the data was a sentient program of indeterminate origin. It was discovered that it contained fragments of the personality of at least one of the scientists who died in the experiment and maybe more than that (among other things).
It was, in other words, a sentient AI with a whole bunch of mysterious disadvantages.
One power I gave it was transdimensional summoning (from the cyberworld, it could summon a machine/robot/gadget/etc. into the real world by somehow manipulating magnetic and electronic fields).