Remoe-Control Spirit Armor

[Michael Hopcroft]

In one of the things I've been watching recently, five teenage girls in a military unit have the ability to summon suits of power armor from within their spirits. fair enough. the trick is -- THEY DON'T WEAR THEM! They control the suits remotely with their bodies and stand on platforms in the open while doing so. The suits have complete freedom of movement, but offer no protection to the girls, who are just as vulnerable to attack as normals 9maybe even more so, since they're out in the open and too busy controlling the armor to really defend themselves).

 

If you wanted to give a player-character this kind of ability, with this kind of weakness, how would you go about creating the character? is the fact that the armor is not worn by the Pc and offers her no protectiona a limitation on the armor? how big a limitation is the concentration required to control the armor and the fact that you need to be within line-of-sight to control it properly? (The enemy armor does not \seem to have that restriction -- in fact, although it seems to be based around the same principle it can be controlled from quite a long distance away from the action.)

[Chuckg]

That isn't Armor at all, that's Summon Slavishly Loyal Follower.

 

Build an automaton, figure out how many points it is, then give the girl a Summon for that point figure.

[austenandrews]

I'd build it as Duplication, with serious "psychic feedback" from the girl to the armor.

 

-AA

[altamaros]

there's several ways to do that :

 

- power : summon

- power : duplication

- perk : follower

 

as chuckg suggests : Summon automaton (with the mandatory "slavishly loyal" advantage)

questions to ask :

- if the armor is destroyed; can the PC call another one at once ?

- each time the armor is summoned;is the armor fully repaired from previous damage ?

if yes, it's definitively summon

Limitation : the summon armor will be under GM's control, not player's

 

As Austen Andrews suggests : Duplication (with the advantage "altered duplicate: 100%")

The armor and the girl are under player's control

Questions to ask :

- is the PC suffering any effect from damage done to the armor, because when the two will recombinate their body points will be reajusted

- if the armor is destroyed, will the PC lose it forever ?

Limitation : the active point cost is disgusting

 

Follower (an automaton):

You will have to give the armor a mind link (bond,any distance, any dimension) to the PC and some teleportation XD Travel to the armor but it can be done that way.

Questions to ask :

- is it the PC "calling" the armor or is it the armor replying to the PC ?

- if the armor is destroyed, will the PC lose it forever ?

Limitation : you cannot have a follower based on more points that the main character.

 

 

Question: what's the title of this anime ?;

i'm interested

[austenandrews]

Originally posted by altamaros

Limitation : the active point cost is disgusting

 

Granted, but I would think that particular AP cost falls outside of the usual limits (as long as she's only producing one suit of armor and not ten).

 

-AA