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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7614499" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>To me, the concept of orgone does not invoke "armor". The character can wear armor, sure, but given that you are talking about it ignoring material barriers, it does not seem to me like the power source should be good at *producing* physical barriers.</p><p></p><p>Orgone should be able to toughen the flesh to be resistance to damage (mirroring, for example, the damage resistance you see in the Hulk, or Thor), but not enhance a suit of unliving physical plates. Orgone may be able to produce force fields (perhaps superior against projected energy like lasers, and inferior to things like swords). Orgone manipulation should be able to heal or boost (or reduce) physical stats. </p><p></p><p>Be careful, in that when you talk about getting through physical barriers, what you are creating is a character with the <em>innate ability to ignore armor</em> - that's potentially game-breaking, and needs to be *expensive*. Check if the system you are using has known ways to do "armor piercing". Put some limitations on it that are consistent with the flavor - you can go through things like kevlar or plate mail (purely physical materials), but those with "dense flesh" or "living armor" (like the Hulk or the Thing, respectively) get full value out of their protection. Orgone should not ignore force fields, so someone like Iron Man (who is, if you read the pseudo-tech specs, often using molecular chain mail backed by force fields) should get partial value of their armor. Magical defenses should be at full power with respect to orgone. I would suggest that orgone-based powers may not be able to reach through the walls of homes (as opposed to say, the walls of a warehouse).</p><p></p><p>In other ways, looking at the list of orgone powers you give, it is looking kind of a gadgeteer version of Doctor Druid, who in the Marvel comics is a psychiatrist with various mind-affecting and mystical powers. Check him out for some of the kinds of results you want from powers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7614499, member: 177"] To me, the concept of orgone does not invoke "armor". The character can wear armor, sure, but given that you are talking about it ignoring material barriers, it does not seem to me like the power source should be good at *producing* physical barriers. Orgone should be able to toughen the flesh to be resistance to damage (mirroring, for example, the damage resistance you see in the Hulk, or Thor), but not enhance a suit of unliving physical plates. Orgone may be able to produce force fields (perhaps superior against projected energy like lasers, and inferior to things like swords). Orgone manipulation should be able to heal or boost (or reduce) physical stats. Be careful, in that when you talk about getting through physical barriers, what you are creating is a character with the [I]innate ability to ignore armor[/I] - that's potentially game-breaking, and needs to be *expensive*. Check if the system you are using has known ways to do "armor piercing". Put some limitations on it that are consistent with the flavor - you can go through things like kevlar or plate mail (purely physical materials), but those with "dense flesh" or "living armor" (like the Hulk or the Thing, respectively) get full value out of their protection. Orgone should not ignore force fields, so someone like Iron Man (who is, if you read the pseudo-tech specs, often using molecular chain mail backed by force fields) should get partial value of their armor. Magical defenses should be at full power with respect to orgone. I would suggest that orgone-based powers may not be able to reach through the walls of homes (as opposed to say, the walls of a warehouse). In other ways, looking at the list of orgone powers you give, it is looking kind of a gadgeteer version of Doctor Druid, who in the Marvel comics is a psychiatrist with various mind-affecting and mystical powers. Check him out for some of the kinds of results you want from powers. [/QUOTE]
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