Need help designing...

[Red Knight]

OK... I previously posted a message about VPP and this is somewhat related.

My player initially wanted to play a power armored hero with modular packs that could be switched out....ala..Iron Man...

Now... I guess he went back and read some of the back-issues... He would like to create a suit of armor that is sentient.

I suggested two (2) different approaches...

#1) Create a normal character then buy the Suit's stats under the powers section with the limiters of OIHID or linked to the suit. IE: if the suit gets trashed so does the persona.

#2) Create the sentient suit and then use a Multiform to create the human (out of the suit) form. The idea would be then that the human would wear the suit.. any damage that penetrated the suit would deal 1/2 damage to the suit's Hits and Stun and the other 1/2 to the human....

Well... Let the ripping begin.... What did I miss???

[Steve]

Actually, you could still do the suit as a Focus or OHID and just add in an AI as being part of the suit, taking the Focus or OHID limitation. The Galactic Champions version of Defender is done like this. This would be the simplest way to do it. It then becomes a sentient Focus.

[Red Knight]

That was my first thought and that is what I suggested to my player. The Multiform was a second thought...

I think I wil go with that idea.... after all.... easy is better

[altamaros]

#2) Create the sentient suit and then use a Multiform to create the human (out of the suit) form. The idea would be then that the human would wear the suit.. any damage that penetrated the suit would deal 1/2 damage to the suit's Hits and Stun and the other 1/2 to the human....
If the armor can act indepently of the wearer (or even be remote controlled) Duplication should do the trick as well but i don't have my books there; i can only detail crudely my idea right now :

Duplication
+ altered duplicate (100%)
+ cannot recombine (+0)
...