New Challenge: Unimprinted Symbiote

[hypernova]

New Challenge:

Unimprinted Symbiote (Like Venom, Carnage, etc.) - 10-stone Challenge

You somehow came in contact with an alien substance, which then proceeded to cover your body and insinuate itself into your system. The symbiote enhances your natural abilities but the more you live with it, the longer you can't go without it. The two of you become literally a single being. A being can't survive long when split in half, right?

You must designate which abilities you buy with the Symbiote stones.

The character takes 2x damage from Fire and Sonics. You must also take another weakness to an element of your choice.

If the character is separated from the symbiote, they lose the stones they used from this challenge and subsequently the improved actions/abilities/modifiers they bought with the stones.

If this Challenge is taken after the beginning of the game, stones may only be used to improve existing abilities, actions and modifiers.

The GM may choose to play the personality of the Symbiote, but eventually the symbiote will take a similar personality to the player.

The character's maximum Energy also drops while disconnected from the symbiote depending on the amount of time spent connected to the symbiote. Refer to the table below for the amounts.

0-6 Months: 1 every 2 days
7 Months - 1 Year: 1 every day
>1 Year - 3 Years: 2 every day
>3 Years - 5 Years: 1 every 4 hour
>5 Years - 8 Years: 1 every 2 hour
>8 Years - 10 Years: 1 every half hour

(> means Greater Than)

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Well, this is it so far. It's a bit cloudy on how you lose the heightened abilities whenever you become unattached from the symbiote. If you see anything that can be fixed, feel free to post.

I'm also thinking about how to work out pre-imprinted Symbiotes such as Venom, Carnage, and Toxin.

Also thanks to Neros for helping pin down specifics.

[Scriptus]

very cool idea. well done.

[Neros]

Well i suggested that two players could team up on this, since a symbiot can be and intelligent creature.
So a player can be Host and the other the Symbiot ;D

But for the next game, i think i want to trie to have a symbiot

[Kaimontfendo]

Hmm... Interesting. I'm planning to include a symbiote in the campain I'm running. But, I have just a few questions. (Sorry to revive an old topic, but I'm really quite curious.)

You must also take another weakness to an element of your choice.

Where does that come from? Also, do these elemental sensitivities count as additional challenges, or not? And if a character has an elemental sensitivity before bonding to a symbiote, do they still need to take another (for a total of 4 elemental sensitivities)?

The character's maximum Energy also drops while disconnected from the symbiote depending on the amount of time spent connected to the symbiote.

What is that supposed to mean? If I understand correctly, it means a character with a durability of 1 (and energy reserve of 3) who was bonded to a symbiote for a year, would lose a stone of max energy reserve each day, and would have no maximum energy reserve after only 3 days. Then what? Is he just unable to do anything useful, or dead, or can someone with healing fix him up, so that his maximum energy reserve is 3 once again? -- Some clarification on this topic would be greatly appriciated.

Also, I'd like to see the pre-imprinted symbiotes, where are they?! Am I asking too many questions?

[Neros]

1. I would say the sensetivity is part of the challenge...

2. More or less yes... Remember, when bound together, they ARE one. So you lose a part of yourself, you would die or be unable to do anything at all.
The energy could be regenerated trough healing, but it would drop back to zero again....

It IS a 10 stone challenge.... Other 10 stone challenges also has a chance of death, so this one should also have it.

[The Punisher]

I dig it, but, there was a time where Cletus' symbiote just left him, and he was fine. It hopped from person to person, and, blah, blah, blah, anyway, Cletus was OK. I love your system, and I would totally refer to it in game terms, but, then, sometimes the comics don't really show how parasitic the symbiote is.

[sphynx]

I think it's the best Home Made Challenge I've seen so far. Well thought out.

[hypernova]

Wowza. I don't think I read a lot of these replies after they came up. Sorry for never responding back and dragging up this old topic.

I'm pretty sure I had some help back then coming up with it. I can't remember who it was, but I'm pretty sure it was someone from this board.

I would say if someone already had a weakness then got the symbiote, then the weakness would be amplified to 3x or even 4x damage, depending on how sensitive they were to the element in the first place.

Thanks for the compliments guys, it really means a lot to me and thanks to the person that helped me out.