Gates, Gate keys, and Gate locks

[zot]

Originally Posted by ak_aramis

Not too meta for me; it does, however, imply that the gate itself is telepathic.

Using telepathy is a possibility but not strictly implied. Maybe it uses some other capability, like matching your "reality pattern", that's completely devoid of consciousness.

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by zot

Using telepathy is a possibility but not strictly implied. Maybe it uses some other capability, like matching your "reality pattern", that's completely devoid of consciousness.

Either way, it's explicitly making a judgement call, which implies some intellect.

[zot]

Originally Posted by ak_aramis

Either way, it's explicitly making a judgement call, which implies some intellect.

Computation at the least, which was my point earlier :). But TFT magic has a lot of that, see my Implicit detection magic thread for more examples.

I don't think this is a bad thing at all but GMs do need to be aware of potential implications.