08-29-2021, 08:24 AM | #1 |
Join Date: May 2021
Location: Eastern Kentucky
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Akashik!
So I like the idea of some people having the ability to tap into the collective mind. So for knowledge based skills it’s kind of like a bang skill. It won’t give anyone the ability to do a skill based task. Just pure knowledge like you’d read in a book but never practiced.
I was thinking though that this would be more like an inate ability improved by talent. It lets you roll IQ + talent 1. If anyone has witnessed directly something recently it’s at no penalty. 2. If only the dead remember it’s a penalty. 3. If it’s not been thought about for a long time there is a penalty. Penalties would be cumulative. What would this cost you think? Not a lot if anything for the base because in some ways thats a default already. Maybe the talent though has a price. 5/level maybe? |
08-29-2021, 08:32 AM | #2 |
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Re: Akashik!
This sounds a lot like Wild Talent limited to skills. Have you looked at that?
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08-29-2021, 09:05 AM | #3 |
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Re: Akashik!
It sounds sort of like a Modular Ability with an unusual source for the abilities.
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08-29-2021, 10:08 AM | #4 | |
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Re: Akashik!
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08-29-2021, 01:30 PM | #5 |
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Re: Akashik!
It actually sounds superficially a lot like Racial Memory.
Except that it's way, way more powerful as an immediate intelligence source. You can, rolling at no penalty, report on every currently-active secret project on the planet in detail. It's fantastically powerful post-cognitive clairvoyance. Using it to get knowledge of actual skills is overlooking the real power.
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08-29-2021, 03:36 PM | #6 | |
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