Jump to content

Aberrant RPG - Exiles to Aberrant


Cytorak Ruby

Recommended Posts

I'm trying to convert Morph and Mimic from the Exiles into the Aberrant system.

Morph has a body like Play-Doh, which he can use to fly and shapeshift into whatever he needs to for the situation. Shapeshift is a no-brainer, but what about the stretchy, clay-like body?

Mimic has the ability to permanently copy the powers of up to five mutants in the immediate vicinity, although at a power level decreased from the original mutant he is copying. He can switch out one of the powers, but he has to be within a certain range of said mutant for at least 6 hours.

Any help would be appreciated.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hi! I am playing a shifter right now who was in some ways inspired by morph. Though I didnt realize at the time apparently dispersed organs would work well for morph as would some kind of homonculus to to detach and reattch limbs. Shapsehift can duplicate bounce, flatform (to an extent) and flexibility (enhancement) so you get the plastic body there or you could buy them separate. armor, force field and desolid (up to level 2) can duplicate the mister fantastic effect of having a rubber body.

,,

As for mimic, you are looking at a Q6 character. Quantum imprint plus the area effect extra. I had considered making a character of this type as well.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I've done Mimic before and made it work pretty well. Mostly it comes down to getting the strengths and weaknesses correct on Q-Imprint and giving him Q6 so he can have 2 extras.

Mimic (draft):

Q6

5 dots of Q-Imprint

Strength: Can get powers Permanently, takes a point of Perm willpower and one hour to do this. Multiple people. Ranged.

Weakness: No Abilities. No baselines. No skill with powers. Only half strength (round up).

Special Abilities: Knowledge of {various mutants' powers and how to use them}

Mimic'ed powers:

Beast: 1 dot in Mega-Dex, 1 dot in Mega-strength, 1 dot in Mega-Int, Physical Prodigy

Cyclops: 3 dots in Q-Bolt, Find Weakness, Prodigy: Tactical G

North Star: 2 dots in flight, 2 dots in hyperflight, 1 dot in armor

Wolvering: 2 dots in Mega-Stamina, Regen, 3 dots in Claws+AP, 1 dot in Mega-Perception

Morph:

Bodymod: Displaced Organs x2

Mega-Stamina 5 (Res x2, Regen)

Shapeshift 2

Taint 5: Pale skin, no facial features

Mega-App 2 (Mr Nobody)

Obsession: Telling Jokes

Homuncious (sp) (1) (weakness: Can't make creatures)

Merit: No Oder (from Werewolf this is a +4 merit but IMHO it should be +2 in abby).

Quantum 4

Eufiber 5

Flight 2

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Mimic (draft):

Q6

5 dots of Q-Imprint

Strength: Can get powers Permanently, takes a point of Perm willpower and one hour to do this. Multiple people. Ranged.

Weakness: No Abilities. No baselines. No skill with powers. Only half strength (round up).

Special Abilities: Knowledge of {various mutants' powers and how to use them}

Mimic'ed powers:

Beast: 1 dot in Mega-Dex, 1 dot in Mega-strength, 1 dot in Mega-Int, Physical Prodigy

Cyclops: 3 dots in Q-Bolt, Find Weakness, Prodigy: Tactical G

North Star: 2 dots in flight, 2 dots in hyperflight, 1 dot in armor

Wolvering: 2 dots in Mega-Stamina, Regen, 3 dots in Claws+AP, 1 dot in Mega-Perception

That looks pretty good. I just had a few questions regarding your draft:

1. Doesn't "No skill with powers" cancel out "Knowledge of {powers}?

2. I take it the mimicked powers are set up so that Mimic would copy all of the powers of a given nova with one expenditure of a permanent willpower?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1. Doesn't "No skill with powers" cancel out "Knowledge of {powers}?

The basic Q-Imprint power includes the ability to copy abilities. Mimic can't do that.

Another problem he has is his skill sucks when he first gets their power.

2. I take it the mimicked powers are set up so that Mimic would copy all of the powers of a given nova with one expenditure of a permanent willpower?

All? No, but Mimic doesn't get "All" in any case. Wolverine has an enhanced sense of smell, but Mimic just has enhanced senses (he can't track with smell). What he gets (Max) is the standard (Dots in Q-I) powers per target, in this case 5.

Similarly Rogue IMHO doesn't really get "all" either. She gets a LOT, and she lives in a universe where most super foke have only a few powers, so the effect is the same.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

2. I take it the mimicked powers are set up so that Mimic would copy all of the powers of a given nova with one expenditure of a permanent willpower?

All? No, but Mimic doesn't get "All" in any case. Wolverine has an enhanced sense of smell, but Mimic just has enhanced senses (he can't track with smell). What he gets (Max) is the standard (Dots in Q-I) powers per target, in this case 5.

Similarly Rogue IMHO doesn't really get "all" either. She gets a LOT, and she lives in a universe where most super foke have only a few powers, so the effect is the same.

What I meant is, Mimic has Wolverine's healing factor, claws, and enhanced senses. That's pretty much all of Wolverine's powers, not just optic beams or flight.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yeah. Mimic gets them all, and then gets to keep them, if he pays one point of Perm Willpower.

I think that goes a long way to explain why he doesn't shift very often.

I guess then my question is, is your Mimic using Quantum Imprint for each power (Healing, Senses, Claws; 3 QI rolls and quantum expenditures total) and then pays a permanent WIllpower to keep the "suite" or is he using QI once to mimic Wolverine and pays one Willpower per power copied? And is he automatically getting half of the targeted mutant or do successes play into it?

Sorry for all the questions, but I am trying to make sure the player that wants to use this isn't going to explode my game. ::biggrin

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I guess then my question is, is your Mimic using Quantum Imprint for each power (Healing, Senses, Claws; 3 QI rolls and quantum expenditures total) and then pays a permanent WIllpower to keep the "suite" or is he using QI once to mimic Wolverine and pays one Willpower per power copied? And is he automatically getting half of the targeted mutant or do successes play into it?

He pays one willpower per person copyied perm.

On the other hand if he gets another dot in Q-I then he doesn't get more powers, he's stuck with the number that he copied before.

Sorry for all the questions, but I am trying to make sure the player that wants to use this isn't going to explode my game. ::biggrin
Depends on the game. This is a Q6, level 4 power, and a strong one. Q-Imprint + Multiple Targets means he gets (Q-I dots) of power from (Q-I dots) of people.

In theory and in practice he can mimic other level 4 powers. Magneto, Prof X, Pax, Mal, and take up to 5 mastered powers from each. With Pax he could probably get INV:BC:Energy+Physical, and if Pax has 4 dots then he can take 2 (+24 soak). All he'd need to do is go to an award cerimony honoring Pax and sit there for an hour.

It's really easy to put together a really broken combo with this. Phoenix, Magneto, Prof X, Juggernaut & Wolverine.

Or in Abby, Pax, Totentanz, Mal, Lotus Infinite, and keep a free spot to zap other people you encounter (keeep in mind he only pays willpower if he takes that power perm).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Id say that its pretty iffy that an ST would let you gain permanent powers, without experrience point expenditure, for only the cost of a permanent willpower point. Considering that to buy a willpower point only costs (current rating). Hey if you only had a willpower of 5 that would be 5 xp per suite of powers gained. Munckin Wet Dream? Or simply bad idea. You decide. News at 11.

,,

(Thats what morph would say...)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Meaning that this is the way Mimic in the comics is built, but in a real game it's tough to see how this could work and be far to everyone else.

And we are also ignoring with Q-Imprint, in theory he has the theme to actually buy some of the powers he is mimicing. Usually this isn't a big deal, but he also has Q6.

And with a Willpower of 5 that would be 4 exp for Willpower (he pays the point of willpower dropping him to 4, then he pays 4 exp to push it back up), and maybe another 3 exp to buy a "skill" to use the power without a +1 or +2 difficulty.

If you really want to have him in a game, make the PC buy the various suites normally, then give him Q-Imprint 5 with Q5.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 6 months later...

Another possibility: he has purchased all permanently mimicked powers with XP. Before he got enough XP to do so, any powers mimicked were either unreliable or incompletely retained or such.

However, all powers so learned are linked to the Q-I, and if he chooses to mimic a new power, he loses whatever old ones filled that slot. . . *but* gets refunded the XP, which he can then respend on perm learning a new power set.

Note, there is precedent for him mimicking Q6+ powers- the fight with Dark Phoenix. He just couldn't keep it, since he couldn't stick around for a full hour ( and OOC, didn't have the XP to buy it, anyway ).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

It is, but OTOH, his powers come with some pretty hefty custom limits, so I think it'd balance out.

Plus, these "refunded" XP would go into a separate reserve, which could *only* be spent on perm-mimicked powers. Can't be used to acquire other stuff.

Its mostly so as to keep Mimic from becoming God if he can hang around Norrin Radd for an hour, while also not leading to perma-loss of spent XP ( which is not normally possible, except in the most limited manner ).

Link to comment
Share on other sites

A variable experience pool is pretty strong.
,,

Funny...I had just commented that Aberrant needed something like this in another thread...

,,

Its mostly so as to keep Mimic from becoming God if he can hang around Norrin Radd for an hour, while also not leading to perma-loss of spent XP ( which is not normally possible, except in the most limited manner ).

,,

This is one of those cncpets that Aberrant handles very poorly.

,,

in the Marvel system things are given ranks...from Feeble, poor, typical, good, excellent, to the higher ranks, incredible, amazing, mostrous, unearthly, and then even higher levels like the Shift and Class 1000+ levles...all the way to the Beyonders power level...called Beyond.

,,

So in Marvel, Mimic has the Mimic Power power...dont know his stats but lets say its at Remarkable...middle of the road (for supers that is...normal humans cant get beyond excellent usually.) But Silver Surfer has Power Cosmic (which is essentially a do anything energy manip power) at Unearthly Rank.

,,

So Mimic would only be able to copy up to Remarkable level of anyones power.

,,

of course it wouldnt work or Norrin Radd in the first place since Mimic only copies Mutants powers..... ::tongue

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Mimic is a fairly broken character.

He can, and has, mimic'ed Phoenix (yah Q6), so he can get Mastery. I see no reason why he can't get those kinds of powers perm if he stays in contact for an hour, and it's only writters' script that's prevented him.

His double on another reality had Prof X, Magneto, Cannon Ball (for INV), a free slot, and god knows what else. Wolverine would be a good choice.

He could, and should, mimic 2 Q6 types, one defensive specialist, one movement specialist (assuming he doesn't have that already), etc.

For example, he could do: Marvel's Superman Clone, Magneto, Phoenix, and then maybe Wolverine & Longshot.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...