Summon a Mecha

[Duane From RI]

Summon can be used to summon a vehicle - for example a Mecha. I have a few questions:

1) Take for example the Power Rangers - they Summon a mecha every episode. Is that a specific vehicle? Must you repair it if it is damaged? Can you rebuild it at a rate of 1 Body per day?

2) Summon is supposed to bring its being into the nearest unoccupied space. Does the GM have the option of allowing a Mecha to arrive and the summoner already be in it or do you recommend a triggered/linked teleport?

3) A summoned being that is Slavish Devoted is limited to summoners Ego/1 tasks. What does a Mecha do when the number of tasks runs out? Can the summoner pay END again and keep continuity? Must the Mecha become disoriented a phase every time the task limit is reached?

4) From a special effect point of view, Ego may not be the most reasonable attribute for determining a Mecha task limit. Is the GM free to propose something else? Would you recommend a advantage/limitation for using Inteligence?

[Steve Long]

Re: Summon a Mecha

 

1. See 6E1 288.

 

2. Let's use our common and dramatic sense here. Would it be dramatically appropriate to have the Vehicle appear with the character in it? If so, I see no reason why the character couldn't immediately be inside it when it appears; having to buy another power to do that seems absurd. However, note the rules on 6E1 288 re: when a Summoned being can act; those still apply. One good special effect for them in this case would be, "the Summoner has to enter the Vehicle and turn it on."

 

3. After it's performed its tasks, a Summoned being is typically freed from control, disappears, or the like. In the case of a Vehicle, that would mean "stops working" or "vanishes" or whatever else is appropriate in light of the special effects involved. The end result in game terms is the same: the Summoned being isn't available to or helping the Summoner any longer.

 

4. The GM's free to do whatever he wants, but by default the standard book rules apply to Summoned Vehicles. The GM can adapt the APG Cyberkinesis rules to give a Vehicle an "EGO" for these purposes.