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

[Gurps Fan]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

How do you know that extra effort, gestalts, required psi skills all "add up" to exactly zero?

By definition. Psionic power modifiers are priced at -10% (or -0% for Antipsi), and the rules state that a power modifier can have beneficial and limiting options that apply to a given power/source, without changing the PM's percentage value: see pp. 174-178 of Powers. I don't know how to calculate the zero percent for them, and that's not my problem.

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Why can't Maledictions are resisted by HT for non-sapients be part of that tally?

Because, unlike extra effort, gestalts, required psi skills, etc., limiting only Malediction-enhanced Innate Attacks and doing nothing to the rest of the power is not an option given to power/source. That's exactly what we call limitation. If the argument "With Psychokinesis power modifier, 'Malediction-enhanced IA is resisted with HT by non-sentients' is a zero-cost part of the PM and not limitation." were valid, then we would lose any logical reason to reject absurd statement like:

• "With ESP power modifier, 'Clairsentience suffers darkness penalty' is a zero-cost part of the PM and not limitation."
• "With Psychic Healing power modifier, 'Unaging requires success rolls to stop aging' is a zero-cost part of the PM and not limitation."
• "With Telepathy power modifier, 'Empathy cannot tell the target's emotion unless the user wins a Quick Contest vs. the target's Will' is a zero-cost part of the PM and not limitation."