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Originally Posted by Refplace
I think your both misunderstand the ops question.
The box the Op refers to is Telespeak and bundles Mind Reading and Telsend together for two way communication.
The build makes the ranges the same on both abilities by using various levels of Short or Long Range.
What hes asking about is a -20% modifier on Mind Reading only called Telecommunication.
I looked it up in GURPS Basic and its a limitation on Mind Reading (p. B70).
From what I can tell given that it also has only read projected thoughts it appears to be acting as a kind of accessibility requiring them to be in communication with Telesend as well.
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Yes, thank you for clarifying
Refplace.
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Originally Posted by Refplace
To the Op: After reading the entry in Basic I still dont see where it would apply to most telepathic abilities.
I could apply it to Illusion with the Mental modifier so you could only create illusions to people your talking with using Telesend.
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That makes sense. But what I still don't understand is why the Telecommunication limitation is attached to the Mind Reading part of
Telespeak (Psionis Powers, p. 59). It's not a part of the
Telereceive (Psionis Powers, p. 59) or
Telesend (Psionis Powers, p. 60) powers. Indeed, no other telepathic build in Psionic Power bothers with a Telecommunication limitation. What is so specially about Telespeak?
Also, to claim a -20% Telecommunication limitation, wouldn't you have to have the
Telecommunication-Telesend (B91) as an advantage — a 30-point advantage? You'd have to have 150 points worth of telepathy powers to make that -20% limitation worth while.
I'm beginning to think the
Telesend form of
Telecommunication (B91) has no purpose in a full blown psionic campaign that makes use of a full suite of psionic powers. It's just in Basic Set as an easy way to give a character psi-eque
Telesend without having to worry about setting up a psionic powers with skills and talents and yadda yadda yadda. It's inclusion as a limitation in
Telespeak (Psionic Powers, p. 59) is an error. Dropping if from
Telespeak wouldn't change anything about it, but its cost.