Psionic Powers: Question about a build

[weby]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I'm trying to understand the current ability, as a means to building a different ability. But it's not my goal to change the RaW. How things are doing in PsP seems like a possible guide to how the RaW actually work.

Your citation of Psionic Powers as supporting the view that you take time penalties when you afflict isn't helpful; I find the Exoteleport build in PsP hard to make sense of, which is why I'm asking all these questions. Your citation of other books is less so, as I don't know what pages you're looking at, and searching through an entire chapter is time consuming. Can you give specific references?

The time penalties have nothing to do with different books. It is based on the basic set. The warp description says that you can use from instant to 8 hours to use it. Thus when affliction says it affect instantly you are left with the two options I specified(instant at penalty or concentrate before). If you want to ignore a part of the rules for an ability you need to add a specific cosmic or another modifier that specifically says it overrides some part. Neither of those two are present in the described advantage so instant either means the normal penalty for instant or that you can prepare before. PK has apparently decided on the prepare first option.

The reference to thaumatology sorcery is about afflicting yourself. That part is under buff spells on page 9, the first paragraph. In Psionic powers the afflict yourself is used also for example in p48 disease shield last paragraph.