 Changlings, Looking for Ideas |
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 Feb 6 2004, 01:33 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 11-August 03 Member No.: 5,408  |
Any ideas as to new and interesting ideas for changling abilities. Most of the ones in YOTC are very boring and lack imagination (I have fur.. oooooo). If you have anything you think would be neat post it.
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Feb 6 2004, 02:32 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Vomit Spray Affected changelings build up large quantities of acid in their stomach. They can expel the acid in a stream as a melee attack. They must resist 2L physical damage from the attack, while the target must resist 6L physical using impact armor.
Corrosive secretions Skinless The afflicted changeling loses their skin over a period of days as it flakes away. A layer of thick mucous is secreted to protect the muscle and exposed tissue. The changling suffers a permanent light wound. Ever Changing This SURGE causes the victims physical appearance to change every week. The afflicted has no control, though he or she can feel it happening a few hours previous to the "seizure" which incapacitate him or her for three minutes. The change inflicts (Body)M stun resisted by willpower. Fat The afflicted becomes fat, enormously fat, walk through doors made for trolls sideways fat. Nothing permanently stops this. Every weight reduction surgery ends with the victim regrowing the fat, painfully. Stench The changeling can willingly emit a stench that forces those in the affected area (Body in meters radius) to make Willpower (Essence) tests or spend the phase vomiting. |
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Feb 6 2004, 02:39 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 11-August 03 Member No.: 5,408 |
How about some possitive effects, Ever Changing is neat.
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Feb 6 2004, 02:47 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
Ever changing is a bit of an edge- think about it.
"We're looking for a human with elf ears and a tail" "Sorry, this week I have tusks and a horn" |
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Feb 6 2004, 02:54 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Hey, with Fat you never have to eat again! And what's wrong with Stench?
Positive effects... HMHVV Immune The changeling is no longer susceptible to HMHVV or other human/metahuman only viruses. Boneless The afflicted's bones dissolve leaving him or her the ability to squeeze through tight spots. An unusual muscle replaces the bones, allowing them to walk normally and so on. Rhino skin Orthoskin affect (was this in there?) with added grey color. |
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Feb 6 2004, 03:22 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,047 Joined: 12-November 03 From: Perilously close to the Sioux Nation. Member No.: 5,818 |
Ummm. Not really a fan, I'm afraid. Muscle CANNOT do what bone does. |
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Feb 6 2004, 04:01 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
That's exactly the effect the implimentation of SURGE had on me! :D |
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Feb 6 2004, 04:06 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
There are three things that are usually used to provide such strength: 1) bone (internal or external) 2) cartilage (like soft bone) 3) fluid pressure (this is what octopi use that allows them to squirm through very small openings) |
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Feb 6 2004, 04:08 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
If you are that fat, bullets won't be a problem. Gee, the bullet got stuck in my fats. But a flamethrower spell will cook you really nice. Likewise, cold is no problem. Hmmm, I wonder if such a Fat person can walk naked in the Artic and suffer no drawbacks? |
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Feb 6 2004, 01:47 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 379 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Earth Member No.: 1,274 |
I'd use seismic readings to test the ice first. Otherwise it would be a quick way to drown and freeze to death. That could then lead to all sorts of hazards as the frozen corpse become an iceberg and drifts into the shipping lanes.
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Feb 6 2004, 02:06 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Ya know, I hear a lotta people b*tching about SURGE. Now, while it IS pretty goofy, and dosent do anything for the PUNK part of cyberpunk, its just something different. Sure, some of the effects can replicate cyberware or bioware, (and for the real chrome junkies, every point counts), but its something to add flavor. How about a 14 year old dekcer with a prehensial tail? Takes the phrase 'code monkey' to a new level. Personaly, Im partial to the less drastic ones, like skin/hair/eye color change. AND, the part that everyone over looks, its more nasty things a GM can do to a PC. Anyone ever see a duel natured street sam?
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Feb 6 2004, 09:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 973 Joined: 3-October 03 Member No.: 5,677 |
Phase 1: Make a physad ninja shaman with the SURGE flaws altered skin color: green. Give him the acid spray SURGE edge.
Phase 2: Name him Reptile. Phase 3: Unleash him against an undead-ish yellow Ninja physad and an ice-using mage/physad. Profit. |
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Feb 6 2004, 09:39 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,049 Joined: 24-March 03 Member No.: 4,323 |
Yeah. Theyre called cyberzombies. |
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Feb 6 2004, 09:55 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
Every SURGE character should have this one!
Calcium Dermal Deposits The character develops calcium deposits in their skin. Elemental calcium. This gives the character a +1 Body for damage resistance purposes, like a troll's dermal armor, but has the unfortunate side effect of causing the character to explode when they come in contact with moisture. (Their own bodily fluids do count.) This does D+(Body) damage, with no damage resistance test allowed. Targets within (Body) meters of the character must resist (Body)L damage from shrapnel. |
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Feb 7 2004, 12:11 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Now, the real question: Does the blast count as an elemental attack against air spirits? |
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Feb 7 2004, 12:50 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,066 Joined: 5-February 03 Member No.: 4,017 |
Hmmm, a variant of this where the calcium forms amid dead layers of the epidermis protected by a thin layer of calcium oxide (or fluoride maybe). Whenever the changeling takes damage, a small portion of the pure calcium gets exposed to air/body moisture. It's power level is the body of the changeling, and the damage level is based on what damage actually occurs. The damage level of the explosion is one below whatever damage is actually inflicted to the changeling. The area of effect degrades at the same rate as a grenade, and the changeling is always a target. Typically, when such a changeling takes a deadly wound, blasts at serious, moderate and light will burst out almost immediately, almost guaranteeing death of the changeling. |
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