Sitting here thinking what I would like to see in pe, I came across a file in my head about Cyberpunk 2020 (old rpg). As PE evolves, and new things are discovered all the time (like the Animal Armor Project), do any of you see a futur for cybernetic prosthetics? Like, new bionicle arms that enhance strength, but need to be maintained (decay). Or better feet to run/evade better?
I’m not looking for big boosts, but more like amps. Amps will never replace a good skill, so shouldn’t prosthetics, but they should help do bigger tasks, just as an addition.
Yeah, augmentations is the right word. (I actually looked it up on dictionary.com, but the description of augmentation made me hesitate, so I went with prosthetics :P)
After thinking more, anoher way to go would be to maybe combine yourself with other creatures, like, manipulating your body with molisk claws etc. It’s kinda far fetched, but could be interesting. And then making you more or less outcast (roleplaying maybe) as you take more mutant form. To deal with decay, you can make the surgery not 100%, so the part of the body decomposes over time, say, molisk claws would only last X days until the decompositon starts, and argo legs would only run X miles before they start to tear down.
An old pen&paper RPG called Shadowrun had a really nice system going on with implants, augmentations, AND prosthetics. They took off points of some other skills though, like perception and mana.
Maniac, I was actually playing Shadowrun on snes when the idea first came up, but as I never liked Shadowrun as a P&P, I credited CP2020. I think CP had a better system when it came to augmentations. but that is off-topic
I guess we will see some of these but I hope it wont go to AO style where you change implants like clothes and have at least 5 of them on all the time…
I think you should be able to enhance strength,agility or other skills by mindforce, the more skill in the mindforce skill, the more you can enhance and the longer it will last
