Teleport

[mlooney]

Is it correct where it gives a cost of zero for a teleporting nude?

Page 210
"Check: Average (8+) Teleportation (1D seconds, PSI) check
Reach: Distant
PSI Cost: 0"

And given that Reach is either a double or quadruple of the original cost, Rules As Written means you can teleport up to 500 kilometers for no psi cost, assuming you don't change your altitude by more than 400 meters. On a "flat" terrain or on an ocean you could teleport 500 kilometers every other turn forever. That would be 5 teleports a minute (based on the "beyond visual range" delay), or 2500 km a minute, which works out to 150,000 kph. Assuming you have no DM's due to skill or psi strength, you will be successful about 41% of the time, making your actual speed 61,500 Kph. That's one and half times around the earth an hour. At no psi cost.

I am assuming a typo some place.

 

[alex_greene]

Is it correct where it gives a cost of zero for a teleporting nude?

Page 210
"Check: Average (8+) Teleportation (1D seconds, PSI) check
Reach: Distant
PSI Cost: 0"

And given that Reach is either a double or quadruple of the original cost, Rules As Written means you can teleport up to 500 kilometers for no psi cost, assuming you don't change your altitude by more than 400 meters. On a "flat" terrain or on an ocean you could teleport 500 kilometers every other turn forever. That would be 5 teleports a minute (based on the "beyond visual range" delay), or 2500 km a minute, which works out to 150,000 kph. Assuming you have no DM's due to skill or psi strength, you will be successful about 41% of the time, making your actual speed 61,500 Kph. That's one and half times around the earth an hour. At no psi cost.

I am assuming a typo some place.

If you were alone on the planet, and you didn't mind leaving behind all your stuff, including your clothes, that's exactly how it sounds.

However, remember the disorientation that comes from long-distance teleporting.

Sometimes, it costs less PSI to have a teleporter actually take a verbal message where it needs to go, teleport there, deliver his message, then teleport back to pick up one's clothes.

 

[Jeff Hopper]

Is it correct where it gives a cost of zero for a teleporting nude?

Page 210
"Check: Average (8+) Teleportation (1D seconds, PSI) check
Reach: Distant
PSI Cost: 0"

And given that Reach is either a double or quadruple of the original cost, Rules As Written means you can teleport up to 500 kilometers for no psi cost, assuming you don't change your altitude by more than 400 meters. On a "flat" terrain or on an ocean you could teleport 500 kilometers every other turn forever. That would be 5 teleports a minute (based on the "beyond visual range" delay), or 2500 km a minute, which works out to 150,000 kph. Assuming you have no DM's due to skill or psi strength, you will be successful about 41% of the time, making your actual speed 61,500 Kph. That's one and half times around the earth an hour. At no psi cost.

I am assuming a typo some place.

If you were alone on the planet, and you didn't mind leaving behind all your stuff, including your clothes, that's exactly how it sounds.

However, remember the disorientation that comes from long-distance teleporting.

Sometimes, it costs less PSI to have a teleporter actually take a verbal message where it needs to go, teleport there, deliver his message, then teleport back to pick up one's clothes.

And this is why legal documents, like a summons, are couriered by attractive female teleporters.

 

[Condottiere]

(Pre)strippedgrams?

Communications at it's most basic.