Babylon 5 campaign: some questions

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Originally Posted by Harald387

Again barring the three notable exceptions - Talia Winters, Lyta Alexander, and Jason Ironheart - I don't see any example or mention of telepaths who gain new abilities as time goes on. From an in-character standpoint, you're tested for given abilities and you get assigned a P-rating based on the abilities you have. From a game-system standpoint, you buy abilities, and you buy the P-rating for those abilities, and that's that. You can increase your level of skill and control with those abilities (power talent, or skill at using powers), but a P5 can't develop Mind Probe (Invasive) and become a P8.

I never said a P5 can become a P8, though as you said there are exceptions. What I said was that you are born with a certain P-rating, that doesn't change. But I don't think you have access to all your abilities when you are born, or whenever you manifest as a telepath.

Besides. if they have a talent, as you suggest, RAW says that they can gain new abilities based on that talent.

We don't see much about telepaths from other races, but we do know that Psi Corps trains telepaths extensively. Nothing I've seen of B5 states that you have to have all your abilities from the beginning.