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* Oh, nice! "9th: Expanded Knowledge (Escape Detection)^" I love Kaylee so much. That plus Detect Scry is a pretty substantial PSP sink, but Fuck Eyndredell and his manipulations, even if he is family! *golf clap* Using the GM required Pathfinder conversion to fuck over Eyn is doubleplusgood. +250 XP. -gm | * Oh, nice! "9th: Expanded Knowledge (Escape Detection)^" I love Kaylee so much. That plus Detect Scry is a pretty substantial PSP sink, but Fuck Eyndredell and his manipulations, even if he is family! *golf clap* Using the GM required Pathfinder conversion to fuck over Eyn is doubleplusgood. +250 XP. -gm | ||
| + | ** Based on the discussions I've had with Mattie, BTW, I'm going to go ahead and preemptively rule that this will also work vs. magical detection as well. I see this as a power that cloaks your own mental signature as opposed to negating the magic/psionic power. In that case, I'll go ahead and say that anywhere it says "clairsentience power" it should be read as "clairsentience power or divination spell." The mainland version of the transparency rule is basically that "indirect effects are countered directly, while direct effects are countered inefficiently." I think Mattie groks it better than I can explain it, but it is very hard for magic to directly eliminate or bypass psionics, but it is very easy to create a psionic effect (mind shielding) that circumvents a magical assault (read thoughts). The hand-wave explanation is that, at the end of the day, both magic and psionics alter reality through different mechanics. Any power that attacks the method of that alteration (Dispel Magic, Dispel Psionics, Mage's Disjunction, etc) works at reduced efficacy, while any power that circumvents a power (True Sight, Mind Shield, Supress Emotion, etc) works at equal efficacy. -gm | ||
Revision as of 21:19, 17 March 2013
- Oh, nice! "9th: Expanded Knowledge (Escape Detection)^" I love Kaylee so much. That plus Detect Scry is a pretty substantial PSP sink, but Fuck Eyndredell and his manipulations, even if he is family! *golf clap* Using the GM required Pathfinder conversion to fuck over Eyn is doubleplusgood. +250 XP. -gm
- Based on the discussions I've had with Mattie, BTW, I'm going to go ahead and preemptively rule that this will also work vs. magical detection as well. I see this as a power that cloaks your own mental signature as opposed to negating the magic/psionic power. In that case, I'll go ahead and say that anywhere it says "clairsentience power" it should be read as "clairsentience power or divination spell." The mainland version of the transparency rule is basically that "indirect effects are countered directly, while direct effects are countered inefficiently." I think Mattie groks it better than I can explain it, but it is very hard for magic to directly eliminate or bypass psionics, but it is very easy to create a psionic effect (mind shielding) that circumvents a magical assault (read thoughts). The hand-wave explanation is that, at the end of the day, both magic and psionics alter reality through different mechanics. Any power that attacks the method of that alteration (Dispel Magic, Dispel Psionics, Mage's Disjunction, etc) works at reduced efficacy, while any power that circumvents a power (True Sight, Mind Shield, Supress Emotion, etc) works at equal efficacy. -gm
