[Basic, Powers] Advantage of the Week: Psi Static and Static

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by ericthered

True, but that's usually the point. Most Psis aren't great shots. You didn't win, but you did force the fight to be fought the way you prepared for, rather than the way they prepared for.

There's also something to be said about the active decisions that are allowed by passive protection. Psi Static allows you to treat psis as nonthreats (or at least greatly diminished ones) and act accordingly, rather than just stay safe when the scenario happens to put you in the path of psis.

Catfall is a similar example. A lot of players don't think it's that useful because they don't suffer fall damage that often. The smart player will think about all the times they avoided an action because of the threat of fall damage, and realize just how much parkour it opens up.

[Pursuivant]

Psi Static is incredibly cheap protection if you're designing a "mundane" character in a psionics-heavy or other "weird supernatural stuff" campaign.

You still have to deal with indirect psi attacks (e.g., poltergeist TK effects), but you can't be psionically mind controlled or mind probed, you can be psionically levitated, and you and your stuff can't be thrown around by TK or set alight using pyrokinesis.

[Plane]

Originally Posted by RyanW

Catfall is a similar example. A lot of players don't think it's that useful because they don't suffer fall damage that often. The smart player will think about all the times they avoided an action because of the threat of fall damage, and realize just how much parkour it opens up.

If you have 10pts to spend why not just get flight at -75% ? You can get that by taking a 5ft ceiling (-25%) and Gliding (-50%)