Phasing Vs Technology

[AzinDine]

Phase Shifters disrupt electrical systems they pass through.

It's dsiplayed a number of times through the comics with Kitty. I remember in one, Sabertooth tricked her into phasing through his handcuffs, allowing him to get free.


How do you play this out in game? If a phaser waves his phase hand through an ATM, is it broken, or does it suddenly start spitting money out?
Would it destroy the HD of a computer? Electronic locks/doors?

Would you use the stone count of their phasing vs the stone count of the "hardyness" of the machine?

And being a driver, this one crosses through now and then, especially with the use of hybrid/electronic cars.. if Kitty or some other phaser were to walk into down town, phase and just let cars drive through them.. would it start shutting off the engines, ect causing an amazingly huge pile up?

[WildKnight]

May 23, 2015 11:24:37 GMT -5 AzinDine said:

Phase Shifters disrupt electrical systems they pass through.

It's dsiplayed a number of times through the comics with Kitty. I remember in one, Sabertooth tricked her into phasing through his handcuffs, allowing him to get free.


How do you play this out in game? If a phaser waves his phase hand through an ATM, is it broken, or does it suddenly start spitting money out?
Would it destroy the HD of a computer? Electronic locks/doors?

Would you use the stone count of their phasing vs the stone count of the "hardyness" of the machine?

And being a driver, this one crosses through now and then, especially with the use of hybrid/electronic cars.. if Kitty or some other phaser were to walk into down town, phase and just let cars drive through them.. would it start shutting off the engines, ect causing an amazingly huge pile up?

To answer your first question about what happens specifically when a piece of electronic equipment is shorted by phasing; GM discretion. Kitty has no control over what happens, and neither should the player.

Regarding the cars; I would say that yes, that would probably happen. Sucks to be driving anything built after 1990, I guess (they pretty much all have electronic ignition).

The one thing I've done with Phasing to make it more manageable is instead of making it automatically disrupt everything they phase through, I consider the stones in phasing vs. the D&$ chart level of the technology, assuming that most technology has some sort of redundancy or other system that makes it reasonably resistant. In other words, a character would have to invest at least 7 stones into Phasing to disable a Kree Warship by walking through its engine.