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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3602076" data-attributes="member: 4134">Those don't seem to go well together:While you can only speak to, and listen to, a single person, there is noise you have to drown out? So, people have to concentrate on sending to one person, and that person has to concentrate to keep other people's communication out? Sounds a bit contradictionary.I could see it one of the following ways:1. It's like the beam of a lantern: You talk to one person especially, but anyone near that person will get some of it, too. They can either concentrate to try and block it out (to concentrate on one person), or they can try to eavesdrop (involving listen checks or something like that). You can also "take off the lanterns hood" or "open/close the shutter" to communicate with several people standing (more or less) close together, or you can just broadcast it. You can hear any number of people, but to listen to more than one takes concentration (just like listening to several people talk at once). The better you are at the telepathy stuff, the better you are at "focussing the beam" and listening in and so on.2. It's like talking to someone over the phone: You choose who to talk to (though it might be possible to address several specific people at once, like a conference call; and you might play radio and broadcast everything), and only those people will receive your message (again, some might be able to "tap a line".Now, for the implications, especially for those who don't have these powers:They're in serious trouble. If those Franks are a warlike people, they will make their enemies' life Hell on Earth. They can see in the dark, even if it's pitch black, and they can communicate without their enemies having any chance to listen in. Beyond nursery tales and predators, those poor bastards will have a real reason to fear the night. Although blinding the enemy with sudden flashes and the like might help, I don't think it will save them.The Franks will not necessarily go for big armies, just lining up on opposing hills and charging. They will go Sam Fisher on their enemies, with silent infiltrators that can see perfectly well in the dark and can coordinate their attacks with ease, with the enemy being one the wiser. Enemies will be forced to spend considerable resources properly lighting everything, which will still be hard without magical or electrical light, and be on the lookout all the time, lest those silent bastards gang up on them and make sneak attacks with surgical precision.</blockquote>

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