> To return to duplication - a duplicating hero in most supers games controls
> all his characters duplicates, and they are often of identical capabilities.
> If you do that in HQ with followers, you're trivialising the ability (it is
> no different than a non-duplicating hero who happens to have a couple of
> sidekicks). How does one come up with ways to represent such a power so that
> it feels like a superhuman ability instead of just something akin to "Batman
> and Robin"? Would the suggestion be to actually allow the player to have
> multiple actions, basically controlling multiple characters, or would you do
> it with some combination of an augment plus followers?
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> GAZZA
I've never played supers games but the thing that struck me from what you wrote is that this seems to be akin to the releasing a fetish for an anamist character. Each duplicate is a released spirit with either the huge AP boost or skill addition. With the AP boost it is easy to have one of the duplicates disappear after the appropriate number of AP's have been lost.
If you allow the super to develop his duplicate from a weedy 13/17 you can also model the weak multi-image only duplicates right up to the duplicate matching powers with the super.
Just a random thought.
Gavain