Mental Communication

Key Attribute: Focus or Spirit

Mental Communication represents the ability to send and receive messages telepathically over vast distances. Using this ability, a character can deliver a message to someone, receive their mental response, or even read the minds of willing (or unwilling) recipients.

Examples of mental communication:

• Abysmal (-3): You fail the attempted communiqué and take one Very Hurt mental wound.
• Poor (-2): You fail the attempted communiqué and take one Hurt mental wound.
• Mediocre (-1): Your attempt simply fails.
• Fair (0): You succeed at communicating telepathically with one target, but communication is basic. Single messages are limited to 25 words at a time.
• Good (+1): You succeed at communicating with one target. Communication is limited only by your ability to speak the target’s language.
• Great (+2): You succeed at communicating with up to two people at a time. Communication is only limited by your ability to speak their language(s).
• Superb (+3): You can communicate successfully with up to five people at a time. This communication is not limited in any way, even if you do not speak the targets’ language(s).
• Wonderful (+4): You can communicate with up to ten people at a time. Communication is not limited in any way.
• Phenomenal (+5): You can communicate with up to 50 people at a time with no limit to your ability to communicate with them.
• Extraordinary (+6): You can communicate with hundreds of people at a time with no limit to your ability to communicate with them. You may communicate with animals on a primal level (you can get a sense of their instinctual thoughts).
• Astonishing (+7): You can communicate with any number of people, even across planes of existence (Material to Astral or the ‘Net, etc.).

As a general rule, mental communication requires you to be aware of the target in some way and be able to see them (except when communicating across planes with an Astonishing result). As an additional Gift, you may be able to communicate with people at range and without the need to be able to see them.

Example Gift: Telecommunicate: The distance at which you can communicate with people is determined by your degree of success, as noted below:

 

 

Table: Telecommunicate
Result	Distance
Fair	100 feet
Good	100 yards
Great	1 mile
Superb	10 miles
Wonderful	100 miles
Phenomenal	1,000 miles
Extraordinary	10,000 miles
Astonishing	Unlimited, even across planes

 

 

Example Gift: Mind Reading: Characters must possess this additional Gift if they wish to use their mental communication power to read the thoughts of unwilling targets (willing targets automatically grant the telepath access to their thoughts). To activate this ability simply use the mental communication power and make an opposed check against the target’s Mind check. Success means that you can probe the thoughts of unwilling characters with restrictions based on your degree of success, as noted above.

If you have both the telecommunicate and mind reading Gifts, you may use this Gift at a range equal to your telecommunicate ladder result.