Shielding
1d6 PP (your choice). If the target succeeds on a Willpower
You can block, deflect, and shield
against psychic influences.
Novice: You gain two Novice-degree
Shielding effects.
Expert: You gain one Expert-degree
Shielding effect. You also gain the power
focus Willpower (Shielding).
Master: You gain one Master-degree
Shielding effect. You can also choose one power stunt you can
perform with your Shielding effects for –1 SP.
Psychic Shield
Requirement: Shielding (Novice) Cost: 0 PP
Time: None Target Number: None
Test: None
Your mind is shielded from unwanted psychic influence.
When it is the target of any psychic power, you can make a
Willpower (Shielding Arcana) test first. If your Willpower test
exceeds the power’s Force, the attempt to affect you fails. If
you fail the Willpower test, you still get the usual test against
the psychic power, if any. So if your psychic shield fails to resist
a hallucination, you still get the usual Willpower (Self-Disci-
pline) test against it.
Psychic shield costs no PP and is always in effect once you
learn it. You can choose to “lower” your psychic shield to
allow friendly psychic abilities to affect you, such as letting
someone use psychic contact.
Psychic Block
Requirement: Shielding (Novice) Cost: 1+ PP
Time: Free action Target Number: Target Force
Test: See description
You can use your psychic ability to counteract the abilities
of others before they take effect. When someone within your
line of sight uses a psychic discipline, you can make a power
test against the power test of the target psychic and spend
PP equal to the cost of the discipline they are using. If you
win the test, your foe’s power test for the psychic discipline is
considered to have failed, although they have still spent the
PP for it. If they win the test, the discipline works normally. If
you do not have sufficient PP to block a particular discipline’s
use, then the effort automatically fails and you cannot counter
your foe’s power.
Psychic Backlash
Requirement: Shielding (Expert) Cost: 2–6 PP
Time: Free action Target Number: 12
Test: Willpower (Self-Discipline) vs. Force
When your use of psychic shield or psychic block overcomes
another psychic’s discipline, you can choose to “reflect” some
of the mental energy, enhanced and empowered by your own,
to create a psychic backlash. If your power test succeeds, you
can spend 2 to 6 PP. For every 2 PP you spend, the user of
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the blocked discipline takes 1d6 penetrating damage or loses
(Self-Discipline) test against your Force, the psychic backlash is
blunted and has no effect.
Psychic Null
Requirement: Shielding (Master) Cost: 15 PP
Time: Major action Target Number: 17
Test: None
Choose an area up to 10 yards across within 20 yards of
you that you can see. If your power test succeeds, that area
becomes psychically “null,” deadened to any use of psychic
powers. For the remainder of the encounter or until you
dismiss it, any psychic talent used in the null area auto-
matically fails. Ongoing psychic effects in that area are
suppressed until moved outside the area or the psychic null
effect ends.
Telekinesis
You can move and affect objects with the
power of your mind
Novice: You gain two Novice-degree
Telekinesis effects.
Expert: You gain one Expert-degree
Telekinesis effect. You also gain the
power focus Willpower (Telekinesis).
Master: You gain one Master-degree
Telekinesis effect. You can also choose one power stunt you
can perform with your Telekinesis effects for –1 SP.
Kinetic Strike
Requirement: Telekinesis (Novice) Cost: 1 PP
Time: Major action Target Number: 9
Test: None
You can strike targets up to 10 yards away with blasts of
kinetic force. You make a normal ranged attack test against
the target using Accuracy (Telekinesis). If successful, the
target takes 1d6 + Willpower bludgeoning damage.
Move Object
Requirement: Telekinesis (Novice) Cost: 2+ PP
Time: Minor action Target Number: 9
Test: None
You can move objects at a distance with your thoughts. A
successful power test allows you to move an object in your
line of sight. The PP cost of moving the object is given on the
Move Object table, which is limited to 10 PP to move 800
pounds of mass. You can move the affected object a distance
of 10 feet per minor action, plus an additional 10 feet per PP
spent above the base cost. So moving a 2-pound object (1
PP) up to 20 feet per minor action (+1 PP) costs 2 PP. Move
object lasts for 1 minute, and you can spend the discipline’s
PP cost again to extend its duration another minute without
a new power test.
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