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<blockquote data-quote="stonegod" data-source="post: 5037515" data-attributes="member: 36973">I am chiefly concerned with balance issues. Other issues (such as whether tactics discussions should be IC/OCC/etc.) are meta-issues to be decided in individual groups, preferably guided by DMs (who set the tone for their adventure). Everyone should be able to come to a consensus on these issues. As for KD's argument of &quot;You can...&quot; vs &quot;Ally can...&quot;, it misses the rest of the context of both, chiefly that such communication is two way. Two way indicates both can talk and generally initiate/terminate conversation; have the kalasthar is just necessary for the communication to be feasible. The &quot;one initiator&quot; version of telepathy KD advocates is more like a permanent, repeatable Sending ritual which has very specific language about &quot;receiving&quot; a message and &quot;respond&quot;ing a reply. So, from a rule view point, there is a (small) precedence for open two-way communication between a kalasthar and one PC.Note, this is not open PC-to-PC coordination. If that is happening, without some time/penalty/etc for doing so without the appropriate feat, that is a balance issue. Free actions such as that should not be abused, and this should be watched by DMs and judges. &quot;Free&quot; does not mean &quot;no time&quot;, it just means it is not one of your major actions. This should be similar to the rejecting having paragraphs of dialog in a combat round.Telepathy is powerful: It is silent and cannot generally be intercepted or interrupted. It is not instantaneous and is only between two parties at a time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="stonegod, post: 5037515, member: 36973"] I am chiefly concerned with balance issues. Other issues (such as whether tactics discussions should be IC/OCC/etc.) are meta-issues to be decided in individual groups, preferably guided by DMs (who set the tone for their adventure). Everyone should be able to come to a consensus on these issues. As for KD's argument of "You can..." vs "Ally can...", it misses the rest of the context of both, chiefly that such communication is two way. Two way indicates both can talk and generally initiate/terminate conversation; have the kalasthar is just necessary for the communication to be feasible. The "one initiator" version of telepathy KD advocates is more like a permanent, repeatable Sending ritual which has very specific language about "receiving" a message and "respond"ing a reply. So, from a rule view point, there is a (small) precedence for open two-way communication between a kalasthar and one PC. Note, this is not open PC-to-PC coordination. If that is happening, without some time/penalty/etc for doing so without the appropriate feat, that [b]is[/b] a balance issue. Free actions such as that should not be abused, and this should be watched by DMs and judges. "Free" does not mean "no time", it just means it is not one of your major actions. This should be similar to the rejecting having paragraphs of dialog in a combat round. Telepathy is powerful: It is silent and cannot generally be intercepted or interrupted. It is [i]not instantaneous[/i] and is only between two parties at a time. [/QUOTE]

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