Post originally by Gerry Saracco at 2003-07-01 15:37:28
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Dan Davenport wrote:
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One tricky issue I see regarding psionic ape supersoldiers is that of control. It would be difficult enough keeping superhumanly strong soldiers in line, but soldiers who can kill you by thinking about it? And if there is such a control in place, you'd have to make it so that it isn't too restrictive for PCs to be any fun to play.

That said, it is a cool idea.
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Well one of the things I was toying with was not really showing who their masters are.

Also, they wouldn't be large armies, just small units (so you don't have a huge army running around). I might even limit which psionic powers they can have (because as you pointed out, something like Mindkill can be dangerous in the wrong hands).

Like I said, it's just an idea in the back of my head. Whenever I do decide to write it out, I'll address the issue of control.

Derek, who runs the Garden of Eden site, suggested that their masters actually be intelligent Apes themselves, who engineered the soldiers to be even better than the species they came from.

Oh yeah, and I also have another idea to cross Etz with Terra Primate called "Shaolin Monkey vs Evil Dead", where there are intelligent apes using kung fu to battle the undead (such as hopping vampires and other asian undead, etc, etc)