| From: | "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: NERPS PSI 0.04 4 of 4 |
| Date: | Wed, 28 Sep 1994 18:13:03 -0500 |
> Telepathic Communications (PsiNet)
> by J.D. Falk and Keith Graham
>
> This ability, dubbed "PsiNet" by an historian working as a freelance
> journalist, allows any number of Psis to chat telepathically. It is
> not a seperate ability; rather, every full Psi with access to the
> Telepathy discipline, and all Telepathic Adepts, can utilize it.
All _full_ psis, regardless of known diciplines shoudl get it. This is a
benefit/hinderince of tapping into the WorldMind. If only telepathics
can get it, than only telepaths should be able to perform psionic combat.
Adepts and Wilds should have to have telepathy as a dicipline.
> Range of the ability is currently unknown,
Unlimited, if you know the target intimately, more limited if you don't
know them. Certainly it will work LOS, though (meaning it can work
through clairvoyance or some such).
> Telepathic abilities you must either know the target well or be able
> to see them clearly in order to trigger that little tug in the back of
> the mind which means another Psi wishes to converse.
Can you get a busy signal? :-)
> This power can be used to tell other psis when to "trigger" their own
> abilities for a concerted effort, or to help focus the use of some
> other telepathic power; telepaths linked in this fashion gain a +2 to
> all powers practiced upon others in the link.
This paragraph needs to be clarified. If we are talking about multiple
psis banning together to create a BIG power, there are some meta-ability
issues that also need to be addressed in here. One meta-ability allows a
single Esper to act as the "hub" and all the other feed into that hub.
Those feeding to hub don't need the meta-ability, but somebody damn well
better :-)
> There is no known limit to the number of psis which can be linked in
> this fashion.
Can you say, IRC?
> Mental Combat
> by Keith Graham
>
> So, how are we going to work this? No consensus was reached AFAIK.
Combat is tough. It needs to be simple, but it needs to work. I'm not
sure offhand...
> Initiating
> by J.D. Falk and Kyle Kohler
>
> Some want you to have the option
> of either gaining a Mastery Level, or gaining a meta-ability when you
> fork out the Karma. While reasonable, we have an awful lot of
> meta-abilities proposed. Perhaps gaining the level and getting one
> power would work better.
Meta-powers are a little different than magic. A) you don't get them
all and B) they have pre-requisites. Because of this, you shoudl be able
to spend your karma on whatever you want as long as you don't exceed the
pre-requisites. In the end, the Level 1 Master with two Level 1
abilities will be weaker than the Level 2 with the Level 2 powers. It
will all even out in the end. Limiting it to one power each level seems
awfully artificial.
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