Psionics

Psionic Abilities
All psionic abilities beyond the most basic are divided into disciplines. There are 8: Telepathy, Empathy, Domination, Dreamwalking, Clairsentience, Psychokinesis, Psychometabolism, and Psychoportation. Each discipline is also a focused skill, with Mental Focus as the base skill. In addition, each discipline has a higher level skill, known as a science.

Psionic Potential and Gifted Characters
Psionic potential is a measure of what areas a character is talented in; that is, what disciplines he may develop. As an advantage, Psionic Potential always allows a character to learn the Mental Focus skill. A full-blooded Yarrin with psionics in his ancestry may purchase base Potential for 2 points; half-blooded or less distinguished ancestry must pay 4 points; and non-Yarrins must spend 6. This level of Psionic Potential gives the character access to Mental Focus and 1 Discipline. Each additional discipline requires the expenditure of half the base cost. That is, each additional discipline will cost a full-blooded character 1, a half-blooded character 2, and a non-blooded character 3.

In addition to having psionic potential, characters may be psionically gifted. A gifted character has the inborn, untrained ability to use a particular discipline, but lacks the ability to improve. Basically, such a character cannot advance beyond Novice in that discipline. If a character has both a Gift and Potential in a discipline, it is treated as a specialty skill.

Mental Focus
This is the base skill for psionics. Characters must possess this skill before taking any other psionics skill, except as a Gift.

• Center Self: Novice. This is much like Concentration, and can be used for some of the same tasks. However, it is inward looking, not outward, and therefore cannot be used to target other types of magic.
• Mind Blank: Apprentice. This is the ability to reduce the surface thoughts of the mind, the "chatter" that can give away so much. It thus protects against attempts to read the character's mind or emotions.
• Psionic Sense: Apprentice.
• Hide Self: Journeyman.
• Sense Balance: Journeyman.
• Sensitivity to Psychic Impressions: Master.
• Convergence: Grandmaster.
• Pattern Reading: Grandmaster.

Empathy

Telepathy

Domination

Clairsentience

Dreamwalking

Psychokinesis

Psychometabolism

Psychoportation