[Psionic Powers] Do inanimate targets resist Malediction with HT or Will?

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Gurps Fan

It's true that Psionic Powers has specific rules, but if some game effects work advantageously or disadvantageously, they should be reflected on point cost. GURPS adopts a point-based system.

Powers (detailed in Powers) can have minor positive and negative traits. For example, GURPS Psionic Powers can use powerful Power Techniques and some other positive little bits.

[Gurps Fan]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Powers (detailed in Powers) can have minor positive and negative traits. For example, GURPS Psionic Powers can use powerful Power Techniques and some other positive little bits.

That's discussed in the box on p. 6 of Psionic Powers. Those are optional rules applied to every individual abilities that belong to psionic powers, which are partly advantageous and partly disadvantageous to psionic abilities in comparison with "raw" advantage (compare Jerry and Mark in the box example). Overall, they more-or-less balance out to zero-cost.

However, Pyrokinesis ability, which is intrinsically limited with "Nuisance Effect, Inanimate targets resist this attack with HT instead of Will 0", seems to have no counterbalancing benefits in comparison with a "raw" Malediction-enhanced Burning Attack.