Calibur-X to heroes unlimited

[The Artist Formerly]

So the magic character in my game kind of died on Saturday and the player is looking to replace with a super soldier built around psionics. She was wondering about adapting Calibur-X from rifts England to replace the super weapon. I kind of liked the idea, and was wondering if any one had any ideas other then cut and paste (and swap in SDC instead of MDC, obvioiusly)? An up coming move might break up the group and I want to end on a high note.

[Braden Campbell]

Have the sword be a one-of-a-kind item... like Captain America's shield. And have it be the key weapon used by an aging superhero named Caliber-x.

The old wielder dies, and passes the torch (or, sword,in this case) to the new character... who now takes on the mantle of Caliber-X.

[drewkitty ~..~]

I would replace the components with HU/AU equivalents and call it something else. Otherwise leave it unchanged if that weapon is what the player really wants.

Vibro blades and a variety of energy weapons are in the back of HU:AUr for reference stats.

I do like Braden's idea of the char inheriting the weapon. It lets you use all the text in the books about that.

[The Artist Formerly]

Have the sword be a one-of-a-kind item... like Captain America's shield. And have it be the key weapon used by an aging superhero named Caliber-x.

The old wielder dies, and passes the torch (or, sword,in this case) to the new character... who now takes on the mantle of Caliber-X.

That's a great idea!

[Daniel Stoker]

Well are you looking for a weapon for a super soldier or are you looking for a weapon to empower the character because if that's the case you might wanna look at the Magic Object option for it.


Daniel Stoker

[The Artist Formerly]

Well are you looking for a weapon for a super soldier or are you looking for a weapon to empower the character because if that's the case you might wanna look at the Magic Object option for it.


Daniel Stoker

Weapon for a super soldier. The player was looking for something along the lines of the Cosmic Knights. But the role of supernatural detector/seeker that her last PC had been playing was still needed. So we worked out the super soldier concept with the latent psychic template. Adds attempt to make the character invulnerable and physical transformation. She sacrificed another pick from that table, along with her level 2 psionic pick, and her portable force field belt armor thing. Replace the super weapon with calibur-X and add the Anti-Gravity belt from the super vehicle result. Then add Space Native, and start the character at fourth level to match the other PCs.

I was feeling kind of generous because the character's death was more to do with a bad calls by other players, two bad dice rolls and being the character who bravely sacrificed herself to save the group and a small town in Mexico. Atleast untill I bring the character as a spiteful necromorph with a grudge.

She was also kicking around a symbiote based on one of my previous characters but she didn't roll any dice for that, so I don't know what's what yet on that.

[RockJock]

I like it. I've used a copy of the sword for a TA world hopping character in Phase World. Instead of being a product of English Golden Age knowhow I made the sword an old Atlantean technology.

[The Artist Formerly]

I like it. I've used a copy of the sword for a TA world hopping character in Phase World. Instead of being a product of English Golden Age knowhow I made the sword an old Atlantean technology.

Yeah, I was kind of kicking an idea along those same lines.

[RockJock]

It works really well for a Latent Psychic, or say a transplanted Psyscape Major Psychic. Great style, decent punch, but something different.

[RockJock]

Have you looked at the Rifter article about British Psi-Tech from the Golden Age? Might be a good source.

[The Artist Formerly]

So that worked spectacularly! The new character is a high mobility fighter with a good range of sensitive powers.

[RockJock]

Sounds like a fun game and character. Different versus overly powerful tends to be fun.

[drewkitty ~..~]

There are stats for lesser Gun-Swords listed in the CE Britain article in R27.