Re: [ORE] Re: Telepathy and Scanning

For the first, I agree with Shane. However, I'd let you use "Read
Thoughts" to find a person if you were patient and didn't mind reading
thoughts one at a time. Depending how crowded an area is, this could
take a while.

For sending thoughts, I'd make a separate useful quality, so "full
telepathy" would be a 4 point/die power at its base.
I might let a person have a single power for "Thought Communication,"
allowing two-way communication with a willing partner within range,
but on its own it would not permit you to read thoughts other than
those the person chooses to share as part of the communication.

In my current game, a major NPC who is sometimes an ally and sometimes
an obstacle (and currently the latter) is an extremely powerful
telepath. When I was building it, I found the points too high, so I
made her power a sort of cosmic power with If/Then flaws to make it
"Telepathic Powers Only."

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Marco Subias <arkhamalum@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about sending thoughts? The Toolkit's description only seems to involve
> reading thoughts, but the two usually go together in fiction. Separate
> useful qualities, or just one for "mental communication"
>
> Hotjets
>
>
> On Saturday, January 18, 2014, Shane Ivey <shane.ivey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would make it a separate quality. "Read Thoughts" is already powerful
>> enough to stand as its own quality without adding a spinoff ability that's
>> powerful in its own right.
>>
>> On Saturday, January 18, 2014, Marco Subias <arkhamalum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> If I want to design a PC with telepathy who can also scan other
>>> minds/thought patterns at range in order to find individuals, would that be
>>> a separate Useful ability from the standard Toolkit power? I'd suspect yes,
>>> but I'm interested in other opinions, with your reasons.
>>>
>>> Hotjets
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