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

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Originally Posted by vierasmarius

Ah, you're right. I was mixing up Sentience and Sapience (B15). Anyways, replace my examples of a Will 1 slug with a Will 0 rock. And that actually highlights it much more starkly, as now you can compare the slug (almost certain to fail all resistance rolls) to the rock (resists with HT instead, for a much higher rate of success).

Doesn't that match both the "theory" of parapsychology and fiction depictions of pyrokinetics? It seems to me that people and animals are believed to "spontaneously combust"; rarely is a rock described to have done so. If pyrokinetics do burn inanimate objects they are typically Combustible ones with low HP and HT (wood-frame homes, for example).

Originally Posted by Gurps Fan

To clarify, I'm not arguing that source-specific options (extra efforts, gestalts, required psi skills, etc.) should be priced on a piece-by-piece basis. Their benefits and drawbacks are supposed to be more-or-less equal and balanced against each other to zero-cost. That's no problem.

How do you know that extra effort, gestalts, required psi skills all "add up" to exactly zero? Why can't Maledictions are resisted by HT for non-sapients be part of that tally?