Psionic Career and Basic Training

[Vormaerin]

The Telepathy is automatic rule is, I believe, unique to Mongoose. It is designed to deal with a previous issue where you could be a trained psionic and fail to get any psi talents. It is certainly in line with previous versions of the rules to count it as a roll for purposes of future modifiers.

 

[To Tha Moon!]

I don't like it either.

I understand why they were written as they are, so that is was unlikely that any one psion would get all five talents. However, when it comes to learning talents, after the initial five have been rolled for, it becomes virtually impossible to get get them.

If you use the Psionic Enhancement rules from MgT1e's Book 4 Psion, you can be boosted up during Psionic Testing & Training to the point that the negative modifier for each roll is almost ignored.