Building a Knight from Battlefield?

[Kit]

I'm looking to build a Knight from the alternate universe of the Battlefield episode [and especially the novel]. I'm looking for suggestions on building the armor and perhaps a sword as Gadgets. All ideas appreciated!

[misterharry]

I don't recall the standard knight's armour and sword having any extraordinary powers, so:

Battlefield Knight's Armour [Minor Gadget]: Armour (5 points of damage reduction). Cost: 1 point.

Battlefield Knight's Sword [Major Gadget]: Natural Weapon x2 (sharp, heavy) Strength +4 damage. Cost: 2 points.


The sword Excalibur emitted a distress signal and was also the key to powering the dead King Arthur's spaceship - not sure how to cost the latter, possibly zero cost, just a side-effect if you like:

Excalibur [Special Gadget]: Natural Weapon x2 (sharp, heavy) Strength +4 damage; Transmit. Cost: 3 points.

To be honest, Excalibur could have other traits which just weren't seen in Battlefield - Scan for example. Maybe it was King Arthur's equivalent of the sonic screwdriver.

[Kit]

Jan 22, 2011 20:25:28 GMT misterharry said:

I don't recall the standard knight's armour and sword having any extraordinary powers, so:

Battlefield Knight's Armour [Minor Gadget]: Armour (5 points of damage reduction). Cost: 1 point.

Battlefield Knight's Sword [Major Gadget]: Natural Weapon x2 (sharp, heavy) Strength +4 damage. Cost: 2 points.


The sword Excalibur emitted a distress signal and was also the key to powering the dead King Arthur's spaceship - not sure how to cost the latter, possibly zero cost, just a side-effect if you like:

Excalibur [Special Gadget]: Natural Weapon x2 (sharp, heavy) Strength +4 damage; Transmit. Cost: 3 points.

To be honest, Excalibur could have other traits which just weren't seen in Battlefield - Scan for example. Maybe it was King Arthur's equivalent of the sonic screwdriver.

Thanks.

I was wondering if i needed to pay for the armour/damage reduction of the armour and the damage bonus of the sword. The issue seems murky to me. I know there is an example of Sontarans not paying for their armour/weapons because they can be removed.

Any thoughts on this? Is armour and a sword in this case Equipment or Gadget?

Based on the novel, the armour may have Scan and possibly Transmit. I can see Flight and possibly even a variant of Vortex to allow for dimension hopping. Since the PC armour won't be doing dimension-hopping, I will skip Vortex.

[Craig Oxbrow]

I'd say if they do something armour and swords don't normally do, they're Gadgets, otherwise they're Equipment.

Let's say Excalibur cuts through anything and ignores Armour, a good example of powers attributed to it, which would qualify it as a Gadget.

[misterharry]

Jan 22, 2011 22:15:31 GMT Kit said:

Based on the novel, the armour may have Scan and possibly Transmit. I can see Flight and possibly even a variant of Vortex to allow for dimension hopping. Since the PC armour won't be doing dimension-hopping, I will skip Vortex.

Ah, sorry - I overlooked your mention of the novel version in your opening post. So, using Craig's advice, the armour would be a Gadget with Armour, Scan, Transmit, Flight and optionally Vortex. Whereas the standard sword would be classed as Equipment, and Excalibur would be a Gadget probably with all sorts of traits.

I've heard that the novel of Battlefield is very good - I'm hoping that they'll include it in the audiobook range soon.