David Edelstein wrote:
There is a summonable advantage as well in LR but it is intended for vehicles and other big stuff (definitely not for weapons)<<<
That's not correct. The Summonable Feature is very appropriate for weapons. It costs more for vehicles and other big stuff, but any artifact can have it.
David is exactly right. Plus there's a version of Summonable called 'concealed weapon' that has an interesting twist. It costs one point more, but you pay Essence when _concealing_ it, rather than when summoning it.
If anyone wonders why Corporeal artifacts are cool, you can always point to the Summonable feature. It's astoundingly useful and flexible. I'm thinking about writing a vignette where a demon has built an amazing vehicle, but it's stuck in the cavern where he built it because it won't fit through the entrance! A great reason to have Summonable! ;) All those times when you _need_ something right now... well, there you go.
Another thing that a GM might let you do is to make Summonable containers that continue to carry their contents. There should be a cost involved in this... +4 for a pouch-sized object up to +whatever for REALLY big things. This won't work on creatures and I'm not gonna work out the implications of time passage and food spoilage and whatnot, but you can see how useful this might be. Well, okay, I _will_ do it. ;)
Non-Canon stuff follows, but it's kinda cool... =)
Summonable Containers
A Summonable object can be made a container for twice the price of the normal Summonable feature. Objects in the artifact will vanish with the container and reappear with it. No time will pass for the 'vanished' objects. Living creatures or other sentients within the artifact will either cause the attempt to vanish the container to fail or will leave the creature behind (at the whim of the GM). This _cannot_ be used to strip people of their clothes and possessions simply because they are sitting in a car that is vanished! The cost for a Summonable Container is based on the _largest_ thing it could contain. So a car cover (normally a +4 cost for Summonable) would cost +16 if it was a container (+8 for car-sized Summonable, and then doubled for the container aspect).
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Nana Yaw Ofori <nofori@pop3.utoledo.edu> writes :
At 11:46 AM -0400 6/4/98, John Karakash - Lucent ASCC wrote:
David is exactly right. Plus there's a version of Summonable called 'concealed weapon' that has an interesting twist. It costs one point more, but you pay Essence when _concealing_ it, rather than when summoning it.
If anyone wonders why Corporeal artifacts are cool, you can always point to the Summonable feature. It's astoundingly useful and flexible. I'm thinking about writing a vignette where a demon has built an amazing vehicle, but it's stuck in the cavern where he built it because it won't fit through the entrance! A great reason to have Summonable! ;) All those times when you _need_ something right now... well, there you go.
Another thing that a GM might let you do is to make Summonable containers that continue to carry their contents. There should be a cost involved in this... +4 for a pouch-sized object up to +whatever for REALLY big things. This won't work on creatures and I'm not gonna work out the implications of time passage and food spoilage and whatnot, but you can see how useful this might be. Well, okay, I _will_ do it. ;)
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And there are so many other neat uses for Summonable. There's the creaper version of the "Emperor's New Suit" artifact: A Corporeal artifact that's a exquisitely tailored suit with the Summonable Feature. Modify tit so it fits your target, who is preferably a head of state, a politician, or some other respected community leader who's going to make a public speech, preferably on live television, so you can watch. At the most inopportune of moments, summon your suit, and leave the poor guy sputtering in his underwear. Hours of fun for the whole family. (The other version is a suit with Etherel Form that only works for the Suit, but has the problems of the owner has to be right there to trigger the effect, and you may not get your suit back in the ensuing mayhem.)
One might also consider a version that you can summon onto your body, for those occasions when you don't have time to get dressed quickly.
For the more bloody-minded, there's the "Badyear Radial". It's a corporeal artifact tire with the Summonable feature. Place it on your victim's car in secret, and wait for them to take it out onto the highway. Then repossess your tire, and watch the fireworks. Or don't, they'll likely be on the news at 11. You may not want to bring your tire back directly, to your hands... if it doesn't lose its rotational motion, you may be holding onto a tire spinning at 70 mph. Painful. On the flip side, it can make a handy weapon, especially if you attatch it to your own car, jack up the wheels, and tie down the accellerator in preparation. "Think fast!"
I probably don't have to explain the fun one can have with the "Summonable Pacemaker," or the "Summonable hundred-dollar bill."
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