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Old 04-24-2009, 12:09 PM   #14
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Default Re: [Psionic Powers] Quick Question: Can I Aim a psi ability?

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Originally Posted by Gurps Fan
And the conventional ranged attack is penalized by the sum of speed plus range, Malediction is penalized only by range.
As you can probably tell, this didn't come up during the playtest. It seems like the real differences are:

HEALING RAY: Two rolls. Speed/Range penalties. Can Aim. Can Move and Attack or All-Out Attack. Fixed max range.

HEALING SPELL: One roll. Range penalties. Can All-Out Concentrate (much worse than All-Out Attack, esp re: movement).

Otherwise, both are invisible and ignore DR. The ray takes Size modifiers, but that's a good thing as often as a bad thing.

Hmm. It does seem that the malediction has a small net advantage over the ray. Maybe a custom +20% enhancement (similar in strength to Based On ) would be more fair than making it a +0% special effect?
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