Babylon 5 campaign: some questions

[Vaevictis Asmadi]

Originally Posted by Harald387

I'd also note that, with two notable exceptions, it doesn't seem like B5-verse psis could do much in terms of training or practice to *increase* their abilities or add new ones; the Psi Corps taught a measure of control and skill (represented by greater skill at using the powers, or higher Talent), but it doesn't seem like there was much in the way of 'adding new abilities through training'. Your set of abilities determined your P-rating, and that was that. I'd generally not allow a B5 psi to buy new abilities without some significant story justification (frex, "the Vorlons rewired your brain").

Well, without some training by an experienced telepath, you can't even block out the surface thoughts of nearby people, causing something like Supersensitive. But Talia taught the telepath girl from Down Below to shield pretty quickly, so it seems a very simple thing to learn.



I would of course put strict limits on how much TK a human, at least, can have. Even with requirements for UB, mental disads, and high TP ability, the upper limit should be a lot lower than for telepathy.

Originally Posted by Lainier

Of course. Earth's tech level is lower than other races'

Lower than the Minbari and Centauri, but not the Narns IMO. I have the impression that Narn tech is cobbled together from whatever they could steal from the Centauri during their revolt, and that they've only backwards-engineered something slightly less advanced than what humans have. They don't seem to have artificial gravity, for example.