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Old 07-15-2017, 08:39 AM   #2
Anaraxes
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Default Re: [Psionic Powers] Subconscious Hand-off

It's a Technique, which is a sort of sub-skill of another skill, in this case the "Sensory Control" skill. See p229 in the Basic Set (Characters).

Use of a Technique replaces the normal skill roll. You don't, for example, roll Broadsword and then Feint to feint; you just roll Feint. You are using that base skill, just to do one specific thing, which usually have some difficulty higher than that of the base skill.

Techniques have a default level that's the base skill minus some penalty, in this case Sensory Control - 10 (as seen in the "Default:" line on PsiP 62). It's a Hard Technique, so can be improved independently for 2 CP for the first level (default +1, or a net -9) and 1 CP per level thereafter.

If you first established the normal, concentration-required Sensory Control, and then later wanted to try the Subconscious Hand-off for some reason, I'd call for a second roll to make that switch. But you could also initiate the control by using the Subconscious Hand-off Technique from the very first roll.
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