Fooling Detect

[nbkbruce]

I was wondering how you might build a power that fools a Detect, not Invisibility but the Detector actually "sees" something different. An example of this would be several of the more powerful demons in my game, some of which can appear Angelic/Holy to those who can Detect Demons/Unholy. I thought a limited Mind Control, Triggered by the Detect, only to make the Detector see something different, but this seems too complicated for such a simple effect. Anyone have any ideas?

[Edsel]

Re: Fooling Detect

 

Use Images. The Images power can specify what senses or detects it works against. I'd be a little more specific than this normally but I am on my lunch break and without my books.

[Doc Democracy]

Re: Fooling Detect

 

I was wondering whether you might use shapeshift for this. It is simply a super-disguise power you are talking about....

 

 

Doc

[Hugh Neilson]

Re: Fooling Detect

 

I'd use Images simply to permit a stronger Detect to penerate the illusion. Shape Shift works if you want a guaranteed disguise.

[Dust Raven]

Re: Fooling Detect

 

Shapeshift seems the most appropriate. Shapeshift versus the Detect Holy/Unholy Sense. Or if you use simple Aura Vision (Detect Auras) you can have it a Shapeshift versus that. There can always be a counter Detect, such as Detect True Nature, which you can rule is more difficult and can't work as a Sense and might require a ritual or spellcasting to use.

[MikeyMitchell]

Re: Fooling Detect
Another possibility would be to use Invisibility. I think it would largely depend on what you're trying to simulate. (Gee, another "lots of different ways to do it in HERO" thread...) :)If you wanted the character to appear as something else to the Detect, then Shapeshift would be good. If you wanted the character simply to show up as "no signal" on the Detect, Invisibility might be more appropriate.

[John Desmarais]

Re: Fooling Detect

 

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I think I'd go with Images.

[Constantine]

Re: Fooling Detect

 

I was wondering how you might build a power that fools a Detect' date=' not Invisibility but the Detector actually "sees" something different. An example of this would be several of the more powerful demons in my game, some of which can appear Angelic/Holy to those who can Detect Demons/Unholy. I thought a limited Mind Control, Triggered by the Detect, only to make the Detector see something different, but this seems too complicated for such a simple effect. Anyone have any ideas?[/quote']

 

I agree that images is the way to go. This way, somebody with a really good detect, or a really lucky roll, has a chance of detecting the real aura.