 August 29, 2011 - 7:22am | Wonder how to go about this? Two options are suggested in the AD book: 1 the player thinks the sathar is now their friend which pretty much means the PC is now a NPC in my book. 2 that they are given a command to perform and ordered to forget it till the time its done. I like option 2. For instance if the Pcs encountered a sathar and was hypnotized and ordered to go on the Volturnus Survey Expedition and seek out the obelisk and activate its beacon to summon the sathar battle feet. This could be a good tie in and it advances the story. Later on star law is investigating how the obelisk sent the signal and the PCs must spin it as the pirates did it. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
September 2, 2011 - 4:40pm | Do lower caste sathar, who are suppose to be dum grunts have the hypnotism ability? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 September 14, 2011 - 6:51am | The lower caste have it racially, but are probably too stupid to use it properly. Most Lower Caste Sathar probably don't even speak Pan-Galactic. The Middle Caste should be fine with it, and possibly the Upper Caste have bonuses in hypno ability. |
February 2, 2013 - 8:31pm | Idea occured to me the other day: hypnotism must occur at fairly close range. Sure it could happen over an open com or telecom link but for all practical purposes it probably happens at nothing more than a few meters or lets put it this way: effective melee range. Now any time a PC encounters a sathar at effective melee range you can be pretty sure that time is being counted in 6 sec increments, so just how much hypnotism is really going on in 6 seconds? I dont think too much. Not a lot of talk happening in 6 secs (unless you are my 6 yr old daughter) so I rather doubt the hypnotism is what we traditionally think of hypnotism as being. So back to my first idea, the kids were watching Ghostbuster's 2 and Dan Ackroid looks into the creepy painting of the bad guy and goes numb and slack jawed until one the the other characters slaps his arm and asks if he is ok. It happened fast at the moment when he mad eye contact with the face in the painting (less than 6 seconds). So here's my idea: The first moment a PC finds himself within effective melee range of the sathar the "ghostbuster style" hypnotism happens. Call it a bit physic or just unexplained but it happens fast. give the PC a PER check to resist or go slack jawed (stun if you will) I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 February 3, 2013 - 5:22am | Hypnosis can be a slow process. A predator say a vampire which looks very nasty can quickly "catch" prey by catching their eyes. Once caught they reel the prey in slowly. Think of the assistants in vampire stories, like Renflied or the friend who was turned in the original Fright Night. They start small and build up to take over the prey completely. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
February 3, 2013 - 10:42am | Not sure where you are going with this Rat T. Do you think that the sathar should not be able to memerize in a combat turn like I proposed? If that is the case then the hypnotize ability is kind of moot as its not going to happen. I think I should probably call this a mezerize ability and maybe it only works at close range and with only one person- perhaps thats what you meant about catching with gaze and reeling them in slowly. so that it will only work if a character is pretty much alone when they encounter a sathar. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
February 3, 2013 - 4:53pm | Think of hypnotism like the other racial abilities that have a score. It is not caste that determines ability but experience. Those who lack ability by a low score would not try it in combat since failure would mean certain injury or death but those who are really good at hypnotism might since they could get away with it. But only if they were sure another party member is not there to shot them while they work the magic. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 February 3, 2013 - 8:46pm | There is a shoot on sight order from the UPF for all sathar.Maybe the hypnotism takes a very short time, but like RT said, a skill check must be made by the sathar first. So to protect people from a sathar hypnotic attack which may take a turn, if they are ingaged in combat only a very skilled sathar can hypnotize someone. In a one on one situation with captives the lesser skilled sathar work on them to develop their hypnotic ability? |
