Recent content by Tom B

For the counter-psionics, the cost is influenced by the cost of the opposed talent. But what is that cost? How do you work it out? For telepathy you might think it is 8, the cost of assault. But assault can cost 16 or 32 if you do them over a longer range. For telekinesis and awareness, the...

In the core rules, the default range for teleport is 5km.

I like the renaming of clairvoyance and awareness. Why the restriction of 400 metres for teleport? Normally its 5 kilometres. Though there is the restriction about the laws of thermodynamics. I do like that you've also split into three separate powers. By doing that it answers a question I've...

There is no rule stopping Travellers getting the Zhodani talent. The problem is the rules have not been thought through. It is virtually impossible to obtain the talent. I don't think anyone intended NPCs to have abilities that PCs don't have, it's just that after going for all the main talents...

I know what you're saying ... But there is a difference between NPCs and PCs, in the rules as written. For an opponent, you can give whatever talents and powers you feel like to make a good game if that includes some or all of the Zhodani talent then so be it. The rules say Travellers can get...

Yeh but it does state that Travellers can learn it. And as for opponents you can design them how you like.

The Zhodani power psychic power and the droyne one Boost do similar things, so I'd put them in the same category.

For the Zhodani Talent, the more I think about it, the more I think someone just put together some random things and some rules without much thought. First, the contents aren't coherent, it consists of some telepathy, some teleportation, some new ones (the machine symbiosis above - I assume...

I'm sure these cold be modified to get rid of the bodies!

The mock veggie burger thing. Channel 4 in the UK did a mock documentary about that a couple of years ago. People thought it was real and were up in arms.

If you are taking psionics out of the 3rd Imperium & Charted Space, in addition to changing Zhodani and Droyne was was previously mentioned, you'd have to amend character creation in the cases of where you roll up psionics. The only other place needing changes, I can think of is if you were...

Each to their own.

I like psionics - they're fun. I'm currently going through the Ancients trilogy as a player and psionics are a part of that, quite a major part I suspect. As for the Zhodani psionic talent, I've said it before, so I'll say it again, it's a mess. The Droyne ones are well thought out.

If you do - please sort out the Zhodani psion list - there are a few issues with it.

We went Alpaca walking (I recommend it) and it was explained why but I can't remember the details. It is an evolutionary adaptation so the young is born and has the best chance of survival.