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Hay i am currently building a starship and came up with the ide of making some form of a 3d printer to help the group out to be able to build and customize wepons and armour that thay coud use druing the mision or by the ships crew any ide if that is posibel to make in heros

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Hay i am currently building a starship and came up with the ide of making some form of a 3d printer to help the group out to be able to build and customize wepons and armour that thay coud use druing the mision or by the ships crew any ide if that is posibel to make in heros

This question is "How do we stat up Item Creation?"

 

The answer is a bit more complex:

In Superheroic setting usually gear is bought with points, same as any other character ability. As such any ability like this would be highly dangerous for game balance. The players could effectively "create points from nothing" and all semblance of balance breaks down.

 

In Heroic games equipment is usually bought for money, looted or crafted. It is not direct part of the game sheets/point accounting. Here item creation powers can work and you have two options:

Transform. Not the best one, but at least possible by default rules.

Item Creation, a Optional power added in one of the Advanced Player Guids (Nr. 2 I think). It allows the creation of items in a more managed way then Transform.

You would still have to control wich/how many items the players could create and use. But it is a lot less dangerous.

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I'd suggest using the rules for Resource Points, and put some limitations on the Equipment pool to reflect how the technology works.

 

  • The printer needs a blueprint for the item to be printed. Creating one from scratch requires a skill roll and considerable time.
  • Raw materials are needed: for example, if the design calls for tungsten carbide and you don't have any, you're out of luck.
  • There may be limits on tolerances and material strengths: the gun stock is easier to make than the barrel, for example.
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Would a VPP Gadget Pool be a valid approach? Everything created has to be a Focus, real and "Usable by Others", amongst other restrictions.

 

The TL of the "forge" will determine some of the other restrictions: if energy-to-matter conversion is possible, you won't need raw materials, but if it's not, consider the very wide range of feedstocks needed by even a society of our TL for complicated things like electronics.

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Hay i am currently building a starship and came up with the ide of making some form of a 3d printer to help the group out to be able to build and customize wepons and armour that thay coud use druing the mision or by the ships crew any ide if that is posibel to make in heros

Use the Create Effect power.

 

It is something that has been kicking around FH since its first edition. I'm told 6th edition has a version. The latest I have is the Alternate Enchanted Item Creation Rules from 5th edition FH on page 279, second column. They characterize it as a version of UOO with Differing Modifier rules. But it is the old Create Effect.

 

You take an existing effect with its advantages and limitations use that as the base effect for Create effect which has its own advantages and limitations.

 

It could be used to model nano seeds or nano forges. Green Lantern using his ring to build a spare ring. Etc.

 

I think works quite well. Nothing stopping you having a Create Base, Create Automaton, or Create Vehicle.

 

If you can figure how stat a planet as a base, then Create Planet Size Base is a Terraformer.

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