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1. If a guy wants to use telekinesis to choke a normal person, does that person have any possible defense? It seems unfair that a guy can just sit back and choke you out in a diner with no defense and no indicator of who's doing it. It's essentially a free attack with No Defense and No Signature!
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Yeah, pretty much. But if said guy keeps doing that other champions are going to declare him a rogue psi and hunt
him.
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2. Is there any penalty to constantly mind-wiping a person? In one case, a player was mind-wiping a guard when they were spotted, then mind-wiping him again as soon as he was seen again (only a couple seconds later), and then continued doing this so that the guard was never remembering what had just happenned. Keep in mind, there is no FP cost to this.
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By the basic rules? I don't think so, but I'd probably give a -1 penalty each time after the first if done within 24 hours. Memories get wibbly-woobly when screwed with too much.
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3. Can mind-reading be used on animals? I'm currently ruling it as working at a penalty and then requiring an animal handling roll to interpret. Is this even close to the intent?
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Mind-reading would give you basic emotions and thoughts like "hunger" "shiny object", and so on. You could do it that way though, Mind-Reading might even give a bonus to Animal Handling allow
Powers Enhancing Skills from
Powers.
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4. Another player is a Weretiger with Karate at DX+1. Does the bonus from Karate apply to his claws in animal form? While this doesn't make a ton of sense (he's not a character from Kung-fu Panda), the template doesn't offer any other skill to actually use his claws and I can reason that since his character is not a normal tiger, he uses his claws in ways unique from normal tigers (I might let another person familiar with big cats percieve the difference).
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Martial Arts says GMs should allow characters with racial claws to use Karate normally (i.e., they get the bonus from the skill and karate). This is however, a optional rule. I personally use it in all my games, doesn't make sense otherwise.