Body Types

Here are some notes on "Body Types." This is still under heavy consideration.




Robot Body
Tends to keep going after taking component damage

• No biological weaknesses
• Few Vital Organs: PEN Doubling on 6+
• Must go to Injured before taking "Minor Wounds": No HURT, No MW until Injured
• CON +1
• Can be re-built if robo-brain is intact (limited true-death)
• Component Damage: Damage results MAY be "capped" (Round 2, Fight-style) with limited results (the robot is cut in half and upper-body still functions fine)

Animated Material (Rock Body / Iron Golem)
Very hard to stop. Crumbles and cracks instead of bleeding

• No biological weaknesses
• Small-ish wounds have NO effect (chip-away/cracks): NO HURT, NO INJURED
• Feels No Pain: +2 CON
• Hard To Stop: No Stunned until Injured
• No Vital Systems: NO PEN Doubling, No PEN
• Limb-Loss Option: Can Round-2 Fight with limb-loss effect

Crystalline Body
Hard but fragile.

• No biological weaknesses
• Turn 1/2 DP into Armor (4 DP : 1 Armor)
• 1.5x PEN Defense
• No Minor Wound
• No Hurt Condition
• PEN doubles on 2+
• Major Wound is 2/3rd DP (fracture)
• At Injured Condition, Minor Wound *does* become Major Wound and is 1/3rd DP as normal

Energy Body
Protected by an energy field instead of skin

• No biological weaknesses
• Slow flight
• No PEN Doubling / PEN Damage (all damage is impact)
• Automatic Force Field 
• Automatic Recovery when paying REA for a Wound Effect
• "Dispersed" (STUNNED) when Force Field is down. Recovers for the 5 REA
• Normal Stunned effect is 3 REA.
• Wound Effects allow some movement as the character re-forms close-by.
• Hard to hurt (negative damage mods) when Dispersed.
• Hard to mix armor with (armor is still "inside" the Force Field

Liquid Body
Easy to "splash" but hard to hurt really badly. Especially resistant to physical damge

• No biological weaknesses
• Impossible to hold/grapple (very high Def-Grapple and Auto Escape) (other L-bodies can grapple)
• 'Flow' movement form
• Does not automatically stretch unless stretching is bought
• Puddle defense move (10 REA for large negative damage modifiers)
• Characters get 2x BLD in ADP against Physical Attacks
• Hard to mix armor with: Armor does not apply to SPLASH threshold
• No PEN Doubling / PEN Damage
• SPLASH THRESHOLD: 1/3rd DP. Any attack that does more than that gets auto-Stun (NO Effect is Stunned)
• SPLASH THRESHOLD: You can still get a Daze or "Unconscious" (splattered) which is 10 REA instead of 8.
• You CANNOT get anything more than that.
• Each SPLASH done in the same Round gives a cumulative -1 CON Roll towards Splattered
• NO Hurt Condition
• NO Injured Condition
• At Serious Condition, any wound is a Major Wound and can take the character out
• ?Check how Force Field works with this (is it "too good")?

Gas Body
Very hard to damage, has trouble dealing damage.

• Gas movement (float, go through vents, etc.)
• Immune to most physical damage
• -8 DM from Energy Damage
• No Armor effects in gas-form (armor only applies in the physical form)
• ?Maybe Armor counts as ADP in gas form?
• No PEN Damage / PEN Doubling (from energy)
• Large Weapon bonuses DISPERSE. A hit is checked for damage. If damage is => Minor Wound,Disperses the gas body (Daze)
• Can be grappled by vacuum cleaners and collected in force fields and so on
• Character takes a -8 DM to any attack launched while in Gas Body against the physical world. This may/may not apply to Psi attacks (i.e. it doesn't if the GM rules there are enough Psi attacks to make the gas body vulnerable to those)