Telepathy

Effect: Communication, Mind Reading

Action: Standard (active)

Range: Perception/Extended

Duration: Concentration (lasting)

Saving Throw: Will

Cost: 2 points per rank

You can read minds and project your thoughts into the minds of others. You have the Mental Communication and Mind Reading effects at your Telepathy power rank. To allow anyone to understand your projected thoughts, regardless of language, add a rank of the Comprehend effect.

COUNTERING

Telepathy is useful for countering Mental Communication and Mind Reading as well as most maintained mental effects, by entering the subject’s mind and providing a mental “boost” in overcoming the effect. Telepathy can’t generally counter instant mental effects, but the GM should decide in any particular situation if Telepathy is able to counter a particular effect.

ALTERNATE POWERS

Many telepaths develop additional uses for their ability to read minds and project thoughts, turning their Telepathy into an Array with Mental Communication and Mind Reading as the base effects. The following are some suitable Alternate Powers for such a Telepathy Array:

• Emotion Control: You can project emotions onto others, changing their emotional state, as an Emotion Control effect at your Telepathy power rank.

• Illusion: You can project realistic sensory impressions into others’ minds; this is a Selective Phantasm Illusion (all senses) at half your Telepathy power rank.

• Mental Blast: Your can strike others’ minds with a blast of sheer mental power, the Mental Blast power at half your Telepathy power rank.

• Mind Control: Your projected thoughts can control another’s mind, a Mind Control effect at your Telepathy power rank.

• Mind Switch: You can switch minds with a target! This is the Mind Switch power at your Telepathy power rank.

• Stun: A surge of mental power can stun a target that fails a Will saving throw; this is a Perception Range Stun effect at half your Telepathy power rank.

• Telelocation: You can mentally “search” for particular individuals, the Telelocation power with a sustained duration at your Telepathy power rank (see the Telelocation power description, previously).