RE: Duplication and regeneration

[dsatow]

Sorry, too much caffeine.

 

In a previous post, I asked if healing (aka regen) with resurrection ability will regen a dead duplicate. The answer was yes.

 

In the FAQ, it says

Can a character with Duplication take Regeneration for his Duplicates that only works when they’re combined with him?

 

No.

 

and

 

Is it possible for a character to buy a “replacement” for a dead Duplicate, and if so, how?

 

There’s no specific provision within the rules for buying another Duplicate to replace the dead one. A GM who wanted to be lenient about it might want to consider charging +5 points — sort of as if the character were buying the Duplicate over again through the standard rule (but the character only gets the one Duplicate, not a doubling). A GM who wanted to be strict, or discourage this sort of thing, might require the character to buy his Duplication a second time, with just one Duplicate, to “re-create” the dead guy; or he might make the character buy some sort of Limited, one-time use of Resurrection Healing.

 

From this, I am a little confused about the dead duplicate. Since a duplicate dying can't recombine, it's just a body lying there, but a dying duplicate doesn't have to have to leave a body. The body, by special effect, could be an energy duplicate that dissipates upon death or the copy could have died a death whereby there is no body left (IE Threepeat's duplicate is tossed into an active volcano). If you can't use healing to regenerate the dead duplicate from your own body, how do you resurrect the duplicate? What are the rules on how to use healing/regen to resurrect the dead duplicate?

[Steve Long]

Re: Duplication and regeneration

 

If you choose a special effect that doesn't involve your Duplicate having a body to be Resurrected, either you have to find a form or Resurrection that will do the trick based on its own special effects, or you're simply out of luck.

 

Beyond that, all I can suggest is that you apply common sense and dramatic sense. There's a limit to how far rules can take you, especially when dealing with an inherently fantastical concept like Duplication and all its bizarre metaphysical implications.