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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 1293068" data-attributes="member: 141">I would adjudicate telepathy based on Rary's Telepathic Bond, which requires line of sight to establish.  After establishing the link, the bond lasts as long as they stay within range (300 feet for a meenlock).I would not allow the meenlock to use its Rend Mind ability through a link established in this way: it is a separate ability from telepathy and would need a its own line of sight.  The 300 foot range would apply only if there was some light source present; otherwise it would have to be within range of its darkvision.Even with a line of sight requirement, and even with the 1d4 round wait between uses, Rend Mind is still an incredibly strong ability.  A meenlock has +16 to hide, and can dimension door a distance of 60 feet every two rounds: they are hard to spot, and hard to catch.  They are lawful creatures who fight in groups of 3-6, and who can coordinate their actions telepathically: that means they can concentrate on one character at a time.  Each successful attack makes subsequent attacks more likely to succeed, since Wisdom damage reduces your ability to make a Will save.Given that the flavor text says that Rend Mind is "a slow mental assault" and that "some meenlocks have been known to stalk and harass their victims in this way for days,"  I think there has to be some other limitation on the ability.  I'd make it like the Fear Aura effect, and say that any creature that makes a saving throw against the effect cannot be affected again by that meenlock's rend mind attack for 24 hours.[edit]I used a meenlock against a 9th level character- a holy liberator with a number of base levels (including ranger, sorcerer and barbarian).  For some reason he has a really high will save, and only failed on a 1.  He took a little damage (4 total) passing through the meenlock's territory, then he went where the meenlock didn't want to go, and the encounter ended.  So, pretty inconclusive.[/edit]</blockquote>

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