Hey, Am thinking about making a Character that uses a Battle armor with Psychic Link.
My question is about how health and focus would workout if the Character is hidden in a different room/place. While the Battle armor is in the fight and controlled with the Psychic Link, Would the Character and Battle armor share HP and Focus and how would it work with the demoralized or unconscious?
This is going to require a Narrator decision in the end, but the simplest answer is that they share Health and Focus.
Hi Crimsonmoon,
I would run that in my game like this: The Battle suit is completely inert without your psychic link and you operating the suit, and so it has 0 health and focus.
As soon as you make the link with the suit it’s like it is now part of you and are part of it.
There is only 1 set of health and focus and it’s shared between you and the suit, when the suit takes damage (health or focus) it’s deducted via the psychic link from your health and focus, but if you take damage while hiding in a side room for example, it’s still taken from your pool of health or focus. The psychic link gives you the great advantage of being able to operate the suit at distance, but the disadvantage is that the same psychic link will pass the damage on to you as if you were receiving the damage directly.
Consequently, if you should ever reach the conditions unconscious, demoralized, shattered, killed, it is you not the suit that suffers these conditions, but due to the psychic link the suit will display them as well. Generally the suit can never act independently of you (unless it has a power or other in-game means of doing so, eg, Salvation.)
I suggest doing it this way or a very similar way as you don’t want someone to be able to use the rules to circumnavigate the game (if that makes sense). If you have a pool of health and focus and your suit has a pool of health and focus, or the suit can be unconscious but you are not, that would give you an advantage that no one else in the game has well and beyond what psychic link should give you.
However you decide to Narrate it it’s a cool idea. You’re part of a hugely successful international team of suer heroes and no one has actually met you, only the suit.
Dak