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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marcoasalazarm" data-source="post: 9623435" data-attributes="member: 26698">Ok, working on a Valorian (from “Dino Riders”) species write up. I think it  should not be so hard (I guess it may end up going “inspired by” more than following the show 100%). Human-like humanoid alien species with some kind of animal empathy power. Think I will represent it as a bonus to animal handling rolls and a version of Lesser Telepathy that works only on animals (the Telepathy powers say that you need a willing subject to accept the telepathy and they always went “whoah, be cool, I’m not going to hurt you, I’m approaching you calmly…” before using the telepathy in the show. They also seemingly need the target to be able to understand you - talk the same language and such - but I guess it’s either the “Valorian talking mentally” effect as an animation shorthand or it’s a min-max, telepathy only works on animals but they understand you quite well).They always wore this gadget around their necks that was a mix of radio and what gave them their telepathy (Wikipedia says the necklaces had the name of AMP ("Amplified Mental Projector")). So probably meet it halfway - without the AMP, it’s Limited Telepathy. With the AMP, it’s plain Telepathy. The AMP also works as a(n Eighties) military-grade radio/comm-link (range of, say, 100 miles, encrypted audio?).This or they get an innate ability similar to the Wildlord's “Animal Empathy” (from Urban Arcana), with the AMP giving a psionic bonus and if they choose Wildlord as a Prestige Class… bonus to the Wildlord Animal Empathy Diplomacy rolls to get an animal to like you?</blockquote>

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