[Psionic Powers] Psionic gestalts

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Originally Posted by JulianLW

Yes, I think this is how a Gestalt is supposed to work. But to establish a Telereceive connection with 11 fellow aliens, the leader would need to roll the Multiplicity technique at Telereceive-16, which he still might not be able to do even with the combined skill. Most of the fellow aliens would have to have a positive relative skill in Telereceive for there to be a significant bonus, and that means spending either 8 CP to raise the skill to IQ+1 or having 3 levels of Telepathy talent - or some combination that adds up to a positive relative skill. Without a positive relative skill, the leader gets no skill bonus.

So it would either be a very special group to manage an interstellar Gestalt (which seems unlikely if they all have only Telereceive 1) or a setting with extremely common telepathy.

Aha, possibly I'd overlooked the thing about there being a penalty to be in Telereceive contact with more than one person at a time. Looks like it's possibly not as OP as it seemed - it looks like it's possible in theory but would require a critical success unless some of them had very high skill. (And, apparently, even if they could pull it off it would have to be redone every day, unless they resorted to sleeping in shifts as Anaraxes suggests).

The scenario was possibly assuming a species with Telereceive as a racial trait and asking what that might lead to rules-wise yes, although that might still not guarantee that all or even many of them would have high skill.

Thanks both of you!