[HERO] His little robot buddy

External Since: Apr 15, 2004 Posts: 52

A potential player wants to have a straight-forward combat monster, a
cyborg with only combat mods. However, to squeeze more points out, he
wanted to purchase a Follower: a little robot that would assess the
battlefield and feed him information in real time.

There seem to be a few ways to go about this:
1) As he figures, buy the little guy as a Follower. This might make
him either less reliable or more annoying, depending on how we decide
to play it. This also means that if someone destroyed the 'bot, it'd
be gone, and the points with it.
2) He also suggested purchasing the Follower as an AI that was
attached to him, but that could run the robot from a safe distance. I
suppose this would require the AI to purchase the Enhanced Senses with
Indirect and/or some range, with an OAF (somewhat easily replaceable).
3) He could just buy the Enhanced Senses as Indirect and/or with some
range. The little robot would just be sFX, but therefore easily
replaceable.
4) He should just buy the Enhanced Senses and ditch the robot.
(Undesirable.)

Any opinions or other suggestions?
-- pseudosoldier

External Since: May 15, 2005 Posts: 852

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:06:36 GMT, pseudosoldier DeleteThis @hotmail.com
(pseudosoldier) wrote:

>A potential player wants to have a straight-forward combat monster, a
>cyborg with only combat mods. However, to squeeze more points out, he
>wanted to purchase a Follower: a little robot that would assess the
>battlefield and feed him information in real time.
>
>There seem to be a few ways to go about this:
>1) As he figures, buy the little guy as a Follower. This might make
>him either less reliable or more annoying, depending on how we decide
>to play it. This also means that if someone destroyed the 'bot, it'd
>be gone, and the points with it.

Thats a GM's option. In this case I'd say you could get the points
back but only after a long period of building a new one.

>2) He also suggested purchasing the Follower as an AI that was
>attached to him, but that could run the robot from a safe distance. I
>suppose this would require the AI to purchase the Enhanced Senses with
>Indirect and/or some range, with an OAF (somewhat easily replaceable).
>3) He could just buy the Enhanced Senses as Indirect and/or with some
>range. The little robot would just be sFX,

It would be the Focus. It would be something that could be captured
or destroyed, depriving him of the use of his power. I think getting
it as a Follower is more amusing, though. "Cheer up, sir! Crowd
control is a very important duty!"