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<blockquote data-quote="EarthSeraphEdna" data-source="post: 7524253" data-attributes="member: 49309"><p>Does that mean that the witchoil required for the duplicant technology must have souls inside, apart from a sliver of the soul of the linked person?</p><p></p><p>Does a duplicant body need to be all that powerful for PC usage? There are many PCs who are reliant solely on their mental ability scores in 4e, and they would not seem to need an especially sturdy body to do well enough. Would the many duplicant bodies that the PCs can salvage from book #5 suffice?</p><p></p><p>I thought that duplicants were shielded against all sorts of divinations and were generally undetectable, even by Brakken, hence why they would be superior to a mere <em>hat of disguise</em>.</p><p></p><p>Duplicants could, at the very least, serve as an incredibly versatile and reliable means of <strong>long-distance communications, no? Even the absolute weakest of the duplicants would be amazing for long-distance communications.</strong></p><p></p><p>What would Alexander Grappa actually do if introduced to duplicant technology, in that case, when the PCs get back in touch with him?</p><p></p><p>Could duplicant technology be used to effectively give a loose soul (e.g. one trapped in witchoil, or Xambria's consciousness) a robotic body?</p><p></p><p>How much of a duplicant's appearance is actually illusory? Pardo's Metal Shell trait in 4e implies that the fur, at the very least, is illusory. Tinker would obviously need a dedicated, Small-sized duplicant endoskeleton, but surely, the endoskeletons necessary for a male gnoll and a female human could not possibly be the same? Would endoskeletons have to be tailored to rough body shapes? Are the clothes also illusory? Or perhaps duplicants work under a mix of polymorph and illusion effects?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EarthSeraphEdna, post: 7524253, member: 49309"] Does that mean that the witchoil required for the duplicant technology must have souls inside, apart from a sliver of the soul of the linked person? Does a duplicant body need to be all that powerful for PC usage? There are many PCs who are reliant solely on their mental ability scores in 4e, and they would not seem to need an especially sturdy body to do well enough. Would the many duplicant bodies that the PCs can salvage from book #5 suffice? I thought that duplicants were shielded against all sorts of divinations and were generally undetectable, even by Brakken, hence why they would be superior to a mere [I]hat of disguise[/I]. Duplicants could, at the very least, serve as an incredibly versatile and reliable means of [B]long-distance communications, no? Even the absolute weakest of the duplicants would be amazing for long-distance communications.[/B] What would Alexander Grappa actually do if introduced to duplicant technology, in that case, when the PCs get back in touch with him? Could duplicant technology be used to effectively give a loose soul (e.g. one trapped in witchoil, or Xambria's consciousness) a robotic body? How much of a duplicant's appearance is actually illusory? Pardo's Metal Shell trait in 4e implies that the fur, at the very least, is illusory. Tinker would obviously need a dedicated, Small-sized duplicant endoskeleton, but surely, the endoskeletons necessary for a male gnoll and a female human could not possibly be the same? Would endoskeletons have to be tailored to rough body shapes? Are the clothes also illusory? Or perhaps duplicants work under a mix of polymorph and illusion effects? [/QUOTE]
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