Re: [HOE] device problems

["earthbinder" <earthbinder@ntlworld.com>]

ok here's some ideas from your description.
 if he want to clone an item with a spirit he has to use sensor with a
spiritual viewer of at least 3d6, the spirit trap power this gets the spirit
that remains within the remnants of the item.
the slot size of the items created mass x2 will be the Drain (E=mc^2) pretty
expensive
the TN will be somewhere in the region of 7/9 + the frame size + the maximum
size of cloned item
slot cost is 15% for an external cloning plate or 35% for an internal
each spirit that he captures takes up a full data slug, info storage is
provided by the brains power
E.g. he wants to make a microwave that makes its own meals Frame uses temp
to make the oven and Cloner to make the meat
frame size 3 slots 31
temp base 1.6 (wants to be able to cook chickens) Nuke +100% = 3.2
Replicator power internal plate =35% = 10.85
Brains 1d4 =1 two slug ports = 4
 total slots used by power = 19.05
Cooking space = 8 slots +2 for a door mechanism = 10 slots
Total so far = 29.05 slots
one power jack port = 2 slots
=31.05
one minor flaw:  when cooking everyone in 3 yards must make a tn5 vigour
check or lose 1d4 wind (dry heaves as you watch something get constructed
and cooked from the inside out)
Drain = 3.2 + 32 + 1 = 37 drain per chicken

gosh that's a big response must go lie down now head hurts
AS always ideas and criticisms are gratefully received
dom
Journeyman Librarian and Defender of Knowledge




----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Zachariasen <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>
To: Deadlands HoE <hoe@gamerz.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 9:15 AM
Subject: [HOE] device problems


> O.K., one of my players has decided that he wants to try to create a
device
> that can clone organic matter.The problem is that we don't know exactly
what
> powers he'd need to use and/or create for it.  This is a guy who's just
> finishing up a new power (called Tractor Beam) just so he can build The
Rig
> from the Playstation game Wild 9.  What we're currently thinking is that
> it'd need a Healing device capable of resurrection just to get a spirit
> inside the cloned object and that it would also need Brains (for Aptitudes
> like Science: Biochemistry), Sensor (to read the DNA and chemical makeup
of
> the cloned object), and Commo (simply because the thing is bound to need
to
> display output).  Do you think he'd need to create a new power?
Basically,
> he wants to be able to analyze, for example, a cow and get a second, new,
> living cow in the out receptacle.  His thinking is that it could be used
as
> a food source.  Yeah, I know, it'd be quite powerful, which is why I've
told
> him that if he did end up having to design the Clone power, it'd probably
> have a TN of AT THE VERY LEAST 13, if not 15 simply for game balance
> purposes.
>
> I'm also thinking that this power would need SOME way of being able to
tell
> what kind of spirit to put in something just so you don't put, say, the
> spirit of an oak tree inside a cow or a German Shepard in a stalk of corn.
> Would that require the Brains of the thing to have an Academia: Occult,
some
> sort of special Science concentration, or what?  I'd say that it couldn't
> rely solely on the resurrection-capable device because, as I put it to
him,
> my interpretation of that power is more or less to tell a spirit that's
just
> vacated its body something along the lines of "Hey, come back here!  You,
> uh... left the gas on!  Yeah, that's the ticket!"  How would it catch the
> spirit to be lured- perhaps using both Spirit Trap and Spirit Weapon in
> conjunction somehow?  In any event, we'd both really like to get some
> feedback on this, as it is a really cool idea (which I would definitely
slap
> some heavy chemical component costs on), and while strong, would really be
> something to reward him with if he pulled it off.
>
> Nick Zachariasen
> Editor Emeritus
> Trojan Times
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