Inspiration and a few questions

[PsiTraveller]

It looks like the Inspiration (pg 209) power replaced the Enhanced Awareness power of the old book (pg 155).

Can the Boon dice be used to counter a bane dice the Gm has announced?
For extended actions taking a long time can the boon dice be used and affect the entire process?

Can the power be used to add to damage dice? A called shot bonus for an Inspired hit for example?


The cost per effect is higher than the continuous until failure power of the old version, but the boon dice adds a +1 DM minimum and +3.5 average for 1 Psi point. This is more powerful than the bonus of Enhanced Awareness that would disappear when you fail a check, and only granted a +DM as long as your Psi Strength was higher than 9.

If the Personal Psi battery is going to be in the new Psion book, the Inspire Power could be used a lot. Just a thought.

Question: Are the Advanced Talents going to be much the same as the Advanced Talents in the new Psion Book? Anything being dropped?

 

[alex_greene]

It looks like the Inspiration (pg 209) power replaced the Enhanced Awareness power of the old book (pg 155).

That it did.

Can the Boon dice be used to counter a bane dice the Gm has announced?

Yes. But the question is, can it be added to another boon die announced by the ref?

For extended actions taking a long time can the boon dice be used and affect the entire process?

I believe it could be used once in one particular roll of the task chain. If you want to affect further stages of the task chain, you need to use it again at each critical stage.

Can the power be used to add to damage dice? A called shot bonus for an Inspired hit for example?

If the task is a mundane one, and the Effect is essential, then yes. An Aware assassin with a sniper rifle can use Inspiration at the moment he fires to enhance the most devastating attack, even at a great distance.

The cost per effect is higher than the continuous until failure power of the old version, but the boon dice adds a +1 DM minimum and +3.5 average for 1 Psi point. This is more powerful than the bonus of Enhanced Awareness that would disappear when you fail a check, and only granted a +DM as long as your Psi Strength was higher than 9.

This is why Inspiration replaces Enhanced Awareness. Every Aware psion can use it, regardless of their natural PSI rating. Even the weakest psions with Awareness can use this power.

If the Personal Psi battery is going to be in the new Psion book, the Inspire Power could be used a lot. Just a thought.

Yes to the utility of the Personal Psi battery from the old Psion book.

Question: Are the Advanced Talents going to be much the same as the Advanced Talents in the new Psion Book? Anything being dropped?

Only Matthew can say what the v2 books are going to be like.

So far, you have Mercenary v2 and, in the near future, High Guard v2. Every other Traveller project bar the ones listed have been set aside, possibly until we've got this book, HG, the Vehicle Handbook and Central Supply onto the market, with the Traveller Companion and the rest of the books on the Big List. Psion v2, and a big Trav project I submitted earlier this year, may have had to go on a very long waiting list.

But all of the last para is a topic for another conversation.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

It looks like the Inspiration (pg 209) power replaced the Enhanced Awareness power of the old book (pg 155).

It looks more of a temporary thing in this version of Traveller. Sleeping it off in MgT maybe sounded too Skyrim before.

Can the Boon dice be used to counter a bane dice the Gm has announced?

The Boon and Bane would cancel each other.

For extended actions taking a long time can the boon dice be used and affect the entire process?

The Boon will wear off in a minute.

Can the power be used to add to damage dice? A called shot bonus for an Inspired hit for example?

It just changes the roll type being used. Not what's being rolled for.

The cost per effect is higher than the continuous until failure power of the old version, but the boon dice adds a +1 DM minimum and +3.5 average for 1 Psi point. This is more powerful than the bonus of Enhanced Awareness that would disappear when you fail a check, and only granted a +DM as long as your Psi Strength was higher than 9.

You can erase that from your mind now.