After watching Equilibrium(for those that haven't seen the movie, I recommend it highly), I took a whack at creating a Grammaton Cleric for Champions. Originally, for his "gun kata," I created a single killing attack, autofire, with a radius area effect.
A few problems with that approach. Since this occurred in a single phase, he would just stand there and abruptly everyone within 8" of him would take damage (assuming they got hit). Also, his range was 8", far shorter than guns like his would normally be. And finally, the AE+AF approach was a killer on active points, which kept the attacks fairly low in damage.
Something I had experimented in the past with was Duplication, Invisible Special Effects (Total), and I wanted to bounce it off those of you here to see how it jived with your understanding of Champions.
This is what I tried:
183 Summon (1 301-Point Creatures) ; Range (0"); Amicable (Slavishly Loyal): +1; Invisible Power Effects (All Senses): +1; Feedback (Beneficial Effects); Feedback (BODY Damage); Feedback (STUN Damage)
2: Mind Link ; Minds Involved (One Specific Mind): +5; Number of Minds (1): +0; Distance (Single Planet): +0; Dimension (Current): +0; Feedback [sTUN and BODY]: -2
The summoned character has some other individual things on it, such as disads like "Can't speak." That I don't need help with, at least not yet.
So, during his "gun kata," he would summon something that would act on its own accord, as its own entity, but over which he had total control, in this case one of his arms. Since the summoned character has all the same attacks and SPD, he would be able to effectively act twice in a single phase, or at least look like he was doing so.
So my questions:
1. Is this legal?
2. Should I/Can I use Duplication instead? (ghastly more expensive!!)
3. Can the summoned character have a 0 INT, and still act on instructions via Mind Link?
4. Should the arm (in a perfect world) be an automaton, allowing feedback to damage the main character without "stunning" his arm if he gets hit?
5. Should I make the arm desolid vs. mental attacks? How would I "pass that buck"?
6. Is there a better way to do this?
Any insights here would be appreciated, whether they're answers to my questions or just thoughts about it in general.
- Captain Pants