Help with a power: look like a statue

[tgaptte]

Hi all,

 

I have a character who is a golem...I was thinking it would be cool for him to be able to stand so still, that he appeared to be nothing more than a statue...any suggestions on how I would build this?

 

I initially was thinking of Images with perception minuses...

 

Thanks!

 

Tim

[gojira]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

Yes, that does work. A few other ideas off the top of my head:

 

Stealth, or other "Sneaking" skill, with a limitation Only in Grey, Rocky or Cement Areas (-1/2). (Or what ever colors or formations you desire.)

 

Invisibility, with the same lim.

 

Shapeshifting, only for disguising features, only with the lim above.

 

Oh, and the lim May Not Move (-1/2). Essential for being a statue.

 

Also don't forget: not everything has to be a power or a skill. If you are described as rocky and grey to begin with, try just standing still and see if people think you're a statue. The GM might let you have it just for good role play.

 

(All limitation values guessed at.)

[mattingly]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

Simulate Death?

[Rapier]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

How about just Camouflague? Drop a limitation on it that "Only to Look Like a Statue." This makes detects really easy too, because it's skill vs skill (Camo vs PER).

[Thia Halmades]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

Or the skill, Concealment, SFX: Stands so still he looks like a statue, allowing you under reasonable circumstances to hide in plain sight.

[Dust Raven]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

There was a character in a game I ran years ago who was effectively an animated stone gargoyle. If he stood completely motionless, it could often be confused from a truly inanimate statue. He didn't buy this as a Power or Skill or anything, it was just a feature of his character not really worth any points (in this campaign anyway).

 

I think how looking like a statue should be handled will depend heavily upon the campaign setting and the nature of the character within it as well as his appearance. It may be something as simple as I did (costs nothing in an ordinary Champions setting), or it could be built as a form of Invisibility or Shape Shift for other settings (such as for a character who looked like any given statue in a setting full of such ordinary statues that look a lot like the character).

[Vondy]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

PS: Mime?

[gojira]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

"Yes sir, that's when I whacked him with the pimento loaf. No, I don't remember who brought the deli bag."

[Thia Halmades]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

Pimento loaf? I'm telling ghost-angel you're stealing his lines.

[Killer Shrike]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

This character is similar:

http://www.killershrike.com/MillennialMen/CharacterFiles/crux.HTML

 

His Statuesque Power combined with his Familiar Power allows him to take on the form of statues, and gain a defensive benefit from it.

[tgaptte]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

Thanks for all the help guys...I decided to go with Simulate Death, with the SFX being that he's a statue...

 

Thanks for all the good suggestions!

 

Tim

[gojira]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

There's a really funny Bloom County series of strips where Opus kills a mime by whacking him with a pimento loaf. GA and I may have a common source.

[Doc Samson]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

I would say a Sight Shape Shift (10 pts.) with the Chameleon(-1/2) Limitation from the Invisibility power.

 

[edit]Woops, nevermind, you already made your decision.

[transmetahuman]

Re: Help with a power: look like a statue

 

Bah. You don't make robo-hoovers or vehicles pay for the ability to "stand" perfectly still, do you? And you can look like whatever you want, if it fits your abilities. You can look exactly like a pimento loaf, for free, if that's all you ever look like. I say just give it to him, gratis.