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<blockquote data-quote="full_moon_draw" data-source="post: 2782031" data-attributes="member: 8878">&quot;Demoralise&quot;&nbsp; - (trust me here, i know it sounds strange) mirrors the capabilities of &quot;Awe&quot;!&quot;Ectoplasmic form&quot; - Included in the write up from the Psionics handbook &amp; PSMC1Tis a knotty one - the original 1st edition psionic invisibility is very much like the version that's written up in the Psionics handbook!&nbsp; In that it's pretty much used to convince one target at a time that you are invisible.&nbsp; There does seem to be this unwritten rule that psionic invisibility is not the same as arcane invisibility &amp; it's an unwritten rule that's still with us today! In that there's no &quot;invisibility - psionic&quot;!However, I think that you've got to spirit of the thing - 1E MM2 goes as far as calling it a dweomer!!! What more justification do you need?&nbsp; Rather sounds like we should call it a spell-like ability &lt;just for clarity&gt; to ensure that people know that it functions like arcane rather than psionic invisibility!&nbsp; I know it seems odd it give it spell like abilities &amp; psi like abilities BUT it's the best way of clearly stateing what the power can do without writing a novel!The capabilities of &quot;Absorb Disease&quot; map across to &quot;Empathic Transfer&quot;The capabilities of &quot;Awe&quot; &lt;strangely enough&gt; map across to &quot;Demoralise&quot;The capabilities of &quot;Truthear&quot; do not map directly to any existing power, a conversion would be needed to play this power as a Psion under 3.5.&nbsp; But, for our purposes we can merrily call it &quot;Discern lies - Psionic&quot; &amp; move on <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The pescy &quot;comprened writing&quot; power is indeed given to the Baku in the Psionics Handbook write up &amp; the power is rather elegently not mentioned anywhere in that book!&nbsp; May be this is another &quot;Comprehend Languages - Psionic&quot; type situation (I don't have the 3.5 PHB to hand &amp; can't recall if the spell Comprened langauges still exists!)Cheers - FMD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="full_moon_draw, post: 2782031, member: 8878"] "Demoralise" - (trust me here, i know it sounds strange) mirrors the capabilities of "Awe"! "Ectoplasmic form" - Included in the write up from the Psionics handbook & PSMC1 Tis a knotty one - the original 1st edition psionic invisibility is very much like the version that's written up in the Psionics handbook! In that it's pretty much used to convince one target at a time that you are invisible. There does seem to be this unwritten rule that psionic invisibility is not the same as arcane invisibility & it's an unwritten rule that's still with us today! In that there's no "invisibility - psionic"! However, I think that you've got to spirit of the thing - 1E MM2 goes as far as calling it a dweomer!!! What more justification do you need? Rather sounds like we should call it a spell-like ability <just for clarity> to ensure that people know that it functions like arcane rather than psionic invisibility! I know it seems odd it give it spell like abilities & psi like abilities BUT it's the best way of clearly stateing what the power can do without writing a novel! The capabilities of "Absorb Disease" map across to "Empathic Transfer" The capabilities of "Awe" <strangely enough> map across to "Demoralise" The capabilities of "Truthear" do not map directly to any existing power, a conversion would be needed to play this power as a Psion under 3.5. But, for our purposes we can merrily call it "Discern lies - Psionic" & move on ;) The pescy "comprened writing" power is indeed given to the Baku in the Psionics Handbook write up & the power is rather elegently not mentioned anywhere in that book! May be this is another "Comprehend Languages - Psionic" type situation (I don't have the 3.5 PHB to hand & can't recall if the spell Comprened langauges still exists!) Cheers - FMD [/QUOTE]

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