Hiyas!
Reading the write-up for the invisibility cloak, it states that one of the ways one could circumvent the cloak wearer's inherent blindness is via "entoptics". I'm confused by this. Does it mean that the wearer just be permanently connected to the mesh? Does it mean something else?
Thanks!
SF
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Confused about invisibility cloak text
Sat, 2011-07-02 08:48
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Confused about invisibility cloak text
Sat, 2011-07-02 09:45
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Re: Confused about invisibility cloak text
Yes.
Although, why bother? The chameleon cloak already says " allows a character to effectively become invisible as long as they are stationary or not moving faster than a slow walk," and it costs *Low*, without optical drawbacks. …What?! :)
I guess if you really need to be running…
Sat, 2011-07-02 12:05
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Re: Confused about invisibility cloak text
Well, the Invisibility Cloak covers a wider range of wavelengths, so unless the players have access to radar or x-ray, they're going to have quite a hard time identifying where the wearer is by sight alone, at least according to how I read the rules. There's also the added advantage of movement and such.
It's also [i]very[/i] powerful. I threw the NPC Files Ghost-assassin on my players as a single encounter and...
Well...
It killed two players and heavily wounded a third, blew a hole in their spaceship by accident, and they never managed to land a single hit on it - they only managed to kill it by ramming it against the ships interior hull repeatedly until it was dead. And then continuously for another two hours, because they couldn't tell if it were dead. By the description given in the rules, it seems that the Invisibility Cloak is passive, so it gives it effect without being powered, while the Chameleon coating/cloak/skin has to be actively kept working.
It was, to be honest, a little more deadly than I had expected the encounter to be.
One of my players swore that the next time he designed a character, it would have echolocation.
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Sat, 2011-07-02 14:15
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Re: Confused about invisibility cloak text
They cover the same wavelength range, I believe. The fact is, the much more expensive Invisibility Cloak is only better when you're moving above a slow walk (a significant but not overwhelming advantage), but it has the disadvantage of blocking all your cool enhanced vision (a significant but not crippling disadvantage). Power is a non-issue in EP.
Personally, all my characters have vision/sensors (they cost peanuts) that'll see through both, so *shrug*.
Even weirder, the Chameleon Cloak and equivalent armor mod are different from the Chameleon Skin/Smart Armor effects.
Sat, 2016-10-01 09:42
#5
My question would be why wifi
My question would be why wifi waves are not blocked?
Sat, 2016-10-01 13:19
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Ha, that's a contradiction in
Ha, that's a contradiction in the text. "From microwave to ultraviolet, but not radar."
Most radar _is_ microwave.
It's weird to have two items so simliar. Best guess would be that you could use the invisibility cloak in combat, while the chameleon is only useful while sneaking slowly.
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Mon, 2016-10-03 12:40
#7
I'd interpret it as the
I'd interpret it as the Chameleon is like active camouflage in Halo, while the invisibility cloak is more like the thermo-optic camouflage from Ghost In The Shell. The chameleon might be running on an image processing type technology (Like holograms maybe?), so if you move too fast, you overpower it's refresh rate and it creates a shimmer effect. While the Invisibility Cloak might be using something more like meta-materials, so no image processing is required.
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Mon, 2016-10-03 15:17
#8
Probably the biggest
Probably the biggest difference is that the invisibility cloak works on LIDAR systems, while you'll get painted easily by them with a chameleon cloak. The speed difference matters as well, but LIDAR seems like a bigger deal to me.
Mon, 2016-10-03 15:55
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Trappedinwikipedia wrote
That would probably gel with my thoughts on it then. Metamaterials actually bend the light around you, so a laser system would be bent as well. If a chameleon system is just projecting a hologram around you (or on the working surface if we're talking actual holography), then it wouldn't stop the LIDAR from shining through it and hitting you underneath.
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