Ghost operative breaking the game with his SEP field; What do I do?

[Ravingdork]

One of my players is playing a draelik ghost operative with an SEP Field. He is turning every encounter into a complete joke!

What do I do?

SEP Field:

An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye.

The technology involved in making something properly invisible is so mind-bogglingly complex that 999,999,999 times out of a billion it's simpler just to take the thing away and do without it....... The "Somebody Else's Problem field" is much simpler, more effective, and "can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery."

This is because it relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

;D

[Rafaj the Snake Charmer]

Not my problem.

[Allisar the Giantess]

Huh? What? Oh. Never mind.

[Masked Participant]

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[Tender Tendrils]

Counteract it with the MIEP (Make it Everyone's Problem) Ray

[Dustin Heaton]

Just give all his friends a NMMNMP (not my monkeys, not my problem) patch and they'll leave him behind the next time they leave a planet.

[BigNorseWolf]

I've always found I can just walk into places and people assume that I belong there despite my sasquatch esque keister.

Some gamer friends suggested this was the ability i was using.

[Ascalaphus]

So what ability is he using to get a SEP? The Cloaking Field exploit is really a very modest power. It basically just allows you to make Stealth checks without something to hide behind. It's not mind-affecting and it doesn't even automatically provide concealment or such.

[warmachine]

If such equipment did exist in-game, and it was being run as the default heroic drama rather than absurd comedy, the OP is just not thinking technological space fantasy enough. Corporations will design, patent, and sell counter-measures.

A Make it Everyone's Problem Ray is an example, with flying drones constantly zapping secure areas, leaving a wake of concerned people shouting "What's going on?"

Another is the Child-like Bothering Familiar, which is a tiny robot that sits on your shoulder, is too stupid to understand what's going on, points at people it doesn't recognise, and asks in a shrill voice "Who's that?" It insists on an answer and never accepts "Who cares?" Reports of actors in live theatre jumping off stage to attack them are merely rumours.

Alternatively, consider the hand-held Zen Detector device. Those utilising SEP fields need to act in a calm manner, as if there's nothing to be concerned about, in an area where inhabitants have their own problems to deal with. Where a creature within range is clearly not agitated or concerned, the device connects with the organisation mainframe and will project a hologram of the local manager demanding some project status. If no manager applies, it defaults to a zealot trying to recruit for a local religion. If the reply isn't an expletive or a punch, the hologram points at the target and issues random insults about their hygiene. Adams Technologies does not sell this to children and it's not age restricted anyway.

[Corvo Spiritwind]

Is this kinda like that actor playing Scott Pilgrim?
I heard he just wandered onto a set and people just assumed he was an actor and he kinda rolled with it.

[Master Han Del of the Web]

You think that’s bad?

I made the mistake of letting my players install a Bistromathics drive and now they regularly show up to their destination before they’ve left their starting point.

[Gamerskum]

Is this an item you home brewed or something?