Sunday 17 May 2020

Powers: Sapient-Only Telepathy

Powers: Sapient-Only Telepathy

By default, telepathic abilities from GURPS Psionic Powers affect all creatures with a mind. The book provides an option to add Racial, -20% to all mind-affecting abilities, if psis in the setting can only affect creatures of their own species or very close species. The book even provides recalculated costs for this option. However, what if we want to do what GURPS Magic does with the Mind Control college and limit mind-affecting abilities to sapient subjects? Then we have to apply Accessibility, Only on sapient beings, -10% and recalculate the costs again. Here's the result for convenience.

Telepathy
Ability
Cost
Source
Brain Lock
17/20/24/29
Crisis of Breath
21/24/27/32/+32
Emotion Control*
10/10/20/25/50/75
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 61
Instill Fear
15/+3
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 64-65
Mental Blow
16/19/22/27/32/37
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 65
Mental Stab
30/39/49/65/81/98
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 65-66
Mental Surgery
10/20/28/43/60
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 61-62
Mind Clouding
6/10/15/19/24 (+4/+5/+4/+5)
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 66
Mind Swap
30/55/70/75/80
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 62
Mindwipe
19/22/25/30/35/40
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 62
Sensory Control
    (Overload)
30/38/40/43/45
18/25/28/30/33
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 62-63
Sleep
24/27/30/35/+35
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 66
Suggestion
10/15/25/30/45/70/95
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 63-64
Telecontrol**
60/75/90/105/120
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 64
Telereceive
    (Shallow)
16/31/37/40/65/70
6/15/21/24/39/54
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 58-60
Telesend
6/15/18/21/24/39
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 60
Telespeak
15/24/33/39/57/87
GURPS Psionic Powers, p. 59
* Cost is a flat 5 points if you have Suggestion (or is free if you only have the first level of Suggestion).
** Since the ability has Specialized, Humans, -40% by default (and can be taken like that), the cost is listed for the case when Specialized, Humans, -40% is replaced with Accessibility, Only sapient beings, -10%.

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