What sort of society do you get...

[Joseph Paul]

RAW mechanical concerns
Looking over the RAW implementing this may not produce the effects I wanted. Telesend works with the Long Distance modifiers so minimum range using Broadcast advantage is a 200 yard radius but it is IQ-4 to do so. Meaning that IQ 10 people have only a 4.62% chance of their emotional state being successfully transmitted to others. Unlike Mind Reading no QC is needed. The recipient(s) in fact doesn't seem to get any chance to resist, which I like.

Solution 1) There is also a modifier for closeness of relationship (-1 for family/lovers and close friends, -3 for casual friends and acquaintances, and -5 for someone you met briefly). That is for straight Telesend to a single person. I may swap and invert the relationship modifiers to count as positives against the Broadcast – 4 eg family/lovers/close get a +5, casual gets a +3, and barely met at the college club drive gets a +1.

Solution 2) There is also the possibility of creating a Telesend Talent (what would I stuff in it?) or a technique to buy off the -4.

Solutions 1 & 2 give too little success for an IQ10 person that is continually broadcasting. I am sure that over the time of an hour more than enough successful rolls will be made to work effectively if this was real. But I don’t have a good way to model that for longer periods of time than the one second turns. So, putting them both together pushes successful sending to over 100% for the lowest range and over 90% out to 30 miles which is probably over kill. I may need to just make some special modifiers for this. Near always success at short ranges and a faster fall off with increasing range is probably what I need.

Recipients – Telesend affects a person in the sight of the sender or that the sender knows is nearby. Presumably, Broadcast affects everybody in the radius whether the sender wants to or not. Identifying who is broadcasting what needs to be sorted out. Vague states that in the case of Telesend only “…general concepts and emotions…” can be sent. Is the identity of the sender sent? Can the recipient ‘taste’ the identity in the emotion? What have other people done with the term "general concepts"?

Emotional information intersects with Acting, Interrogation, Intimidation, Reaction Rolls, Body Language, Detect Lies, Erotic Art, Fast Talk, Fortune Telling, Meditation, Psychology, and Sex Appeal. Either the ability gives intel that interferes with a person’s attempts to resist giving intel or it gives information about how well information gathering or behavior modification attempts are going.

Which brings up options for distorting or hiding the truth of the emotional state of the individual from everyone. I will go with drugs to give different states -even a state of 'not being' and meditation that brings a person back to a calm state.

The effect this would have on conflict might be a preference for not having any but once joined in combat work hard at getting it over with quick. Pretty sure the emotions about dying will be very strong.