All th Telepathy powers except Contact have a distinct visual effect. (Contact you would not be able to tell) Ergo, you CAN see that they were used, and by who.
It says "the team's" ruling is that psionics have some kind of visual effect.
(Incidently who is the team is that copap or just avlis?)
Does this ruling (which i personally find rather silly) stand for hala as well
[i]Blessed is the mind too small for doubt[/i]
Though I walk through the vally in the shadows of daemons, I shall fear nothing. For I am what the daemon fears.
Well avlis is simple diferent at point about visual effects, there you will see only efects that can be actually seen by your char, like barkskin. Other spells like endure elements, premotion you wont see IC and on your screen as well. So i suppose they simply go the same way with psionics.
The message i got from reading that is that most psionics have some kinda cheesy visual effect like glowing green auras or a "buzzing" noise
[i]Blessed is the mind too small for doubt[/i]
Though I walk through the vally in the shadows of daemons, I shall fear nothing. For I am what the daemon fears.
However, the same "spells" that mages use (Clairvoyance, see invis, true sight etc..) don't have the graphical giveaways in avlis, but the psions versions do.
[i]Blessed is the mind too small for doubt[/i]
Though I walk through the vally in the shadows of daemons, I shall fear nothing. For I am what the daemon fears.
you know, there would be a simple rule one could impliment for this sort of thing. If it has a visual effect, then you can see that visual effect. If it doesn't, you can't. That way, if the team didn't want something to have a visual effect, they could remove it and visa versa. Why Avlis can't work on that, I don't know.
"Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely” John Milton
you know, there would be a simple rule one could impliment for this sort of thing. If it has a visual effect, then you can see that visual effect. If it doesn't, you can't. That way, if the team didn't want something to have a visual effect, they could remove it and visa versa. Why Avlis can't work on that, I don't know.
That rule IS implemented on Avlis. WYSIWYG - They added in the visuals to most Psion powers so there would be a visual seen IC and OOC
I played a lot of old school psionics. No visiual effects. Pretty hard to tell someone was using psionics. used to kill people by using telekinesis to shut their windpipe heh
On one hand I find the visual effect rules pretty dumb. Ruins the psion RP a lot for me.
on the other hand I take into consideration how annoying someone would be constantly using psionic powers on me and me having to act like i don't notice who it is.
I can see the tell's now
"Um you cant tell its me using psionics on you, you just feel someone trying to disintrigrate you over and over" etc..
I'm forcing myself to believe it's a matter of RP vs dumb players
[i]Blessed is the mind too small for doubt[/i]
Though I walk through the vally in the shadows of daemons, I shall fear nothing. For I am what the daemon fears.
you know, there would be a simple rule one could impliment for this sort of thing. If it has a visual effect, then you can see that visual effect. If it doesn't, you can't. That way, if the team didn't want something to have a visual effect, they could remove it and visa versa. Why Avlis can't work on that, I don't know.
That rule IS implemented on Avlis. WYSIWYG - They added in the visuals to most Psion powers so there would be a visual seen IC and OOC
at one time thats what I thought was being do... must have got confused with what was being said at somepoint
"Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely” John Milton
In so far as I know, if a psion casts a power against you and he fails his power check then nothing happens. You dont feel attacked and you dont sense anything fishy. The psionc power never left the psions brain. You have no reason to turn around and attack the psion.
About contact. AFAIK, If your in a crowd and a psion attempts to "contact" your character you can't tell who did it, only that someone tried to. Of course if its just you and a psion in the same room it's a good indication that it was him.
Is that accurate?
[i]Blessed is the mind too small for doubt[/i]
Though I walk through the vally in the shadows of daemons, I shall fear nothing. For I am what the daemon fears.
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"The ways in which they are different are maybe more visible but less important than the ways in which they are alike." -Rudiki about Alexis and Sceluscio
[url=http://wiki.ysgard.org/index.php?title=PCs:Sceluscio_Potementia]Scel's Wiki Entry[/url]
Firstly, for anyone looking for a quick Psionic power description: Psionics Wiki
Secondly, read this this , which is a guide for roleplaying the effects of the telepathic powers, (and is currently the "rule" for Hala).
-Scel
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"The ways in which they are different are maybe more visible but less important than the ways in which they are alike." -Rudiki about Alexis and Sceluscio
[url=http://wiki.ysgard.org/index.php?title=PCs:Sceluscio_Potementia]Scel's Wiki Entry[/url]
