Reveille's Psionic Powers

[Angel Tarragon]

I need a place for my psionic powers I'm working on, so this thread will be it.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Planar Retrieval
Pychoportation
Level: Psion/Wilder 9
Display: Visual
Manifesting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Special (see text)
Target: One object you can hold or carry in one hand, weighing up to 10 lb./level
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates (see text)
Power Resistance: No
Power Points: 17

You automatically teleport an item that you can visualize directly to your hand so long as it is on the same plane you are on. If the object is in the possession of someone, the object only comes to your hand only if the other person fails their Will save.

Augment: For every additional power point you spend, the weight limit of the target increases by 10 pounds. For an additional 17 power points, the item comes straight to your hand disregarding any Will save.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

No comments?

 

[wolfpunk]

Most characters are not going to be able to hold a single 170 lb object in a single hand. In addition you would have to be 34th level in order to be able to spend enough power points in a round to summon the object without the Will save.

Perhaps you could explain why characters would want to learn this power.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Perhaps you could explain why characters would want to learn this power.

To have an item cached away for a rainy day and not keep on their person all the time.

 

[Bacris]

Honestly, I would see this closer to a +6 PP augmentation of Call Weaponry - or some new power based on it - rather than a 9th level power.

As an example, consider the Psychic Rogue's Dimensional Pocket power:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20040723c

It's 1st level, has a short duration, but is close to what you're talking about.

I just think 9th level for this is way too high level if you have to already know the object. Or does visualize simply mean imagine? For example, if a nomad were to visualize 170 pounds of platinum, would that work? That needs to be clarified.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Or does visualize simply mean imagine?

Yes; by visualize I do mean imagine. However, the item do need to be known about, one cannot simply visualize something they have only heard about, they need to have actually seen it at some point and for long enough for the memory to take hold. However, the character could have a sketch of the item to help visualize it.

 

[Bacris]

So then 170 lbs of platinum would be feasible, since they could simply look at a platinum piece or a lump of platinum and then visualize a gigantic heap of platinum?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

So then 170 lbs of platinum would be feasible, since they could simply look at a platinum piece or a lump of platinum and then visualize a gigantic heap of platinum?

Correct.

 

[Bacris]

Then that's not really psychoportation anymore, that's metacreativity, because you're giving carte blanche to summon anything that can be visualized.

My recommendation is that the item to be teleported actually exist - so trying to summon fantastic things fails, unless they actually exist on the plane of existence.

It's a simple "The item being visualized must actually exist on the same plane of existence as the manifester"

Given that this has instantaneous duration and only a PP cost, even with that restriction, it could be pretty nasty in game balance terms. "I summon forth the support beam of structure X" could cause entire buildings to collapse. Or, if a high-level NPC / villain has some heavy (but not too heavy) equipment, the nomad could steal it. Or teleporting in a gigantic, perfect diamond. Or any number of other things that can cause some issues.

Are you taking these uses into consideration with this power?