So while at a friends house during a night of Warhammer 40k, the topic of my planned Hybrid Galaxy game came up and with it, the discussion of personal cloaking devices.

In a couple of the sources that I’m drawing heavily from a man portable fuctional cloak does exist. The Tactical Cloak from Mass Effect, the Isolation Suit from Star Trek, and the ever popular Jedi and Sith have the directly named Force Cloak. So the concept is one I would need to address regardless of any player’s desire to use the ability or not.

In my brief discussion on the subject with That Damn Punk we came to the understanding that it could be potentially balanced by running it as an either/or function of the already available personal force field. The question remained about the balance point. Because of the semi-ablative nature of the feilds, I as the Game Master, in a desire to prevent an all-ninja assualt squad situation initally suggested that when you switch from stealth to shield, it should have to build up from zero. Punk didn’t like that suggestion, his point was that if you have to make the switch, it will most likely be a situation where you need it all. In the end we reached a compromise where it would switch at half power.

In thee end it’s a really easy example to post about the back and forth that makes a good game.