The player is equipped with top-notch laser weapons, personal force fields, positronic computers, cybernetics, antigravity boots, and suddenly they're all just useless lumps of metal. Even your friendly robot companion is deactivated. Somewhere in the vicinity is a Dampening Field device. It even prevents you from transporting back to your ship. Only the most primitive of weapons and machines will work in the radius of the Dampening Field (which may extend over the entire surface of the planet, or may be localized to a single dungeon or building), so bring a sturdy sword, thick armor, and a bow to be safe. You wouldn't want to encounter such a Dampening Field device very often, but sometimes it would be a useful means to an end. A prison planet may possess one to prevent escapes. A society may be kept in perpetual dark ages by a tyrannical leader or over-protective guardian. Or maybe you'd just build one yourself to prevent the robots from slaughtering you.
I'm all kinds for different types of fields, as part of a Field Emitter idea. An EMP field would probably not effect the Glitch because of some aspect of the lore or some kind of EMP resistant technology. Fields that disable certain kinds of equipment and teleports could be cool, especially for traps.
