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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 6960811" data-attributes="member: 40176">The tricky part of this concept is that if you devote significant game-time to it, it becomes like the Hacker in a cyberpunk setting - it's a really cool ability in concept, but it requires a lot of extended scenes in which only a single player is participating.Allowing the other PCs to access the Mindscape along with this character, maybe through some form of touch-telepathy, would alleviate this issue, allowing everyone to participate if some form of extended exploration of the shared consciousness was required.For occasions which don't warrant such detailed exploration, maybe just give the character a simple mechanical benefit, like they roll knowledge-based checks with advantage, and can make the check even if the subject is outside the character's personal experience.One potential cool twist to this concept would be to have one of the main antagonists be a member of the same race, and for them to gradually realise that they are competing to find the same information, leading to conflicts within the Mindscape as each side seeks to deny the other access to certain information.</blockquote>