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Infomorph, remote controlled robots and Morph

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Fri, 2013-06-21 18:16

fafromnice fafromnice's picture

Infomorph, remote controlled robots and Morph

So i'm reading Glass Houses from Laura J. Mixon (great book) who is one of the razor girl feminist's theory main book (the other two is Neuromancer with Molly the original razor girl and Mind Player from Pat Cadigan) So I was reading Glass Houses and it struck me, the main character is damn good character if you want to play a rigger in Shadowrun ... Wait ! can i do that in Eclipse Phase ? let me explain. In glass houses the character is a woman who jack-in a "waldo" synth morph drone type robot and she is a little claustrophobic if in shadowrun I know how to build a character who is exactly like that, building an infomorph who sleeve (?) himself in a remoted controlled synth morph seems to me a little bit power player and like in the book I could jack-out and jack-in "sleeve" in another synth pod morph I feel like i forget something and if not, what happen if my infomorph is running an Eidolons (see Transhumans) ?

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Fri, 2013-06-21 18:31

CodeBreaker CodeBreaker's picture

I haven't read the book, I

I haven't read the book, I don't know the character, and unfortunately I don't think that your English is doing you service here (it is getting a lot better though!). I think you are asking about a character who lives their life as an infomorph, but acts within the physical world by 'jamming'. Jamming is the EP universes version of teleoperation, a more involved version of remote control. You can find the english explanation on page 196 of the third printing. I am afraid I don't have a copy of the French translation, and so can't point you in the right direction with that. So yes, that is a character concept that is fully supported by the rules. It works just fine with Eidolons, and it is fairly balanced. You don't need to worry about being seen as a munchkin if you go that route.

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Sat, 2013-06-22 13:30

fafromnice fafromnice's picture

I have all the books in

I have all the books in English, paying for a Game Book in French it's something like double of the retail price Ok I foudn what I want at p. 196 if I understand well "Jumping in" is a Complex Action and if one died in a drone he take 1d10 mental stress damage my problem is when my infomorph will jump in a Reaper (p.144) drone I will take the aptitude bonus related to the physical world (+5 Coo, +10 Ref, +10 Som) but when it will come to a Intuition or cognition test I will take the advantages (+10 for the two) of the Agent Eidolons (p. 11, in the Transhuman PDF) It's seems to me that by doing this somone could exploit a the flaw of the reaper morph, who is no intellec boost, sure he will keep the synth morph social stygma and the fact that he is a walking tank but he will have an handfull of advantages in the same way if a physical morph have an intellectual advantage who overlap with one of the Eidolon, do the two combine ? You are basically running a remote program on an hardware who boost it, no ?

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Sat, 2013-06-22 13:38

fafromnice fafromnice's picture

Ho ! and thanks for the

Ho ! and thanks for the comment on my english, I do my best when i'm not to sleepy I'm mostly reading in english, finding the book I want to read in french seems to be impossible if there name are not Fifty Shade of Grey and nobody translate theorical book on movie or anthropology

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Sat, 2013-06-22 17:39

CodeBreaker CodeBreaker's picture

fafromnice wrote:

fafromnice wrote:
my problem is when my infomorph will jump in a Reaper (p.144) drone I will take the aptitude bonus related to the physical world (+5 Coo, +10 Ref, +10 Som) but when it will come to a Intuition or cognition test I will take the advantages (+10 for the two) of the Agent Eidolons (p. 11, in the Transhuman PDF)

Jamming is a bit weird in the default ruleset, and so some things aren't crystal clear on how they are meant to be run. You do not get the aptitude bonuses by jamming into a morph. If you were jamming into a Reaper morph, while sleeved into an Agent eidolon you would only get the aptitude bonuses from the Agent eidolon. You do however get many of the other morph traits that the morph you were jamming into might happen to have. If you jammed a Slyph you would get the advantages from Striking Looks (Level 1). If you jammed a Bouncer you would get the advantages from Limber (Level 1). What isn't clear is whether or not someone jamming into a Neo-Hominid gets the +10 bonus to climbing, or the +30 bonus to swimming when jamming an Octomorph. Can Psi characters use their sleights through jammed biomorphs? Do Psi characters suffer from morph fever when jamming a synthmorph? Jamming is a slightly underdeveloped part of the ruleset. Basically, you just have to keep in mind what you think the intention of the developers was when they wrote it. If something sounds like it is overly gameable, then it probably wasn't intended.

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Sat, 2013-06-22 18:35

godmoney

CodeBreaker wrote: Can Psi

CodeBreaker wrote:
Can Psi characters use their sleights through jammed biomorphs?

I would lean towards no on that one. Doesn't the virus rewrite the brain structure of the biomorph, and I don't think jamming a biomorph will rewrite the brain... right?

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Sat, 2013-06-22 18:38

fafromnice fafromnice's picture

Quote:I would lean towards no

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I would lean towards no on that one. Doesn't the virus rewrite the brain structure of the biomorph, and I don't think jamming a biomorph will rewrite the brain... right?

I would agree with that

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