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9 Mentalist PSA Mentalist Many forms of science fiction include beings with supernatural powers dealing with the mind. It is up to the referee to allow the use of this special PSA, and to define the nature of the power (or allow the player to do so). It could be psionic, personally-powered through strength of the mind. It could be an all-encompassing energy field that surrounds all living beings and breathes life into the Frontier. It could be power granted from a divine (or evil?) being. It could be spiritual energy channeled from another dimension. Whatever the source, the rules work the same. Mentalist PSA is just another skill group, except that players may not select any of the subskills contained within it unless they are a member of this Primary Skill Area. Thus, Mentalists learn Mentalist skills, an nobody else may. Restrictions. <strong>Star</strong>ting characters can select Mentalist PSA only with their referee’s approval, and must possess an Intuition, Logic, Personality, or Leadership score of 70 or higher. They may only select one single skill regardless of the number of skills they are normally entitled to begin with. Development. Any further development of Mentalist skills beyond character generation must be through normal character development and should probably require a teacher. Skill Level Experience to Purchase Point Cost Level 1 10* Level 2 12 Level 3 18 Level 4 24 Level 5 30 Level 6 36 *The first level requires a teacher. Using Skills. The use of a Mentalist skill isn’t free. Your character will have to invoke the power using normal skill roll mechanics (base chance plus ten times his skill’s level). Mental Endurance. It causes the character personal fatigue to invoke these powers. Mentalists have a special pool of points (like Current Stamina) that is equal to their Logic score. As they use their powers, their Mental Endurance depletes. When they are out of Mental Endurance, they cannot use their mental powers until they recover. The amount of Mental Endurance it costs to invoke a Mentalist skill is equal to a number of d10 based on the invoked skill level. Thus if you used Enhance 164 PSA Metabolic Control Enhance Agility 40% + level Enhance Physique 50% + level Enhance Senses 60% + level Heal Self 100% + level - damage Hyper Movement 65% + level Pheromone Emission 25% + level Psychokinesis Fire <strong>Star</strong>ter 40% + level Inertial Barrier 25% + level Levitation 50% + level Sonic Barrier 25% + level Telekinesis 100% + level – weight(kg) Telepath Awareness 40% + level Clairaudience 20% + level Clairvoyance 20% + level Dominion 15% + level – target LOG Empathy 30% + level Read Thoughts 80% + level – target LOG Send Thoughts 70% + level Suggestion 40% + level – target LOG Strength (from the Metabolic Control skill) at level 1, you will take 1d10 Mental Endurance damage. If you had 4 levels of that skill and invoked only 3 of them, you’d sustain 3d10 damage. If you fail to invoke your skill, you are still slightly fatigued by the attempt. You lose one Mental Endurance point per level of the failed skill level. Mental Endurance Recovery. Mentalist recover their lost Mental Endurance at a rate of 1d10 per hour spent sleeping or meditating. If referees prefer simplicity, recover 5 points per hour of rest/ meditation. METABOLIC CONTROL The Metabolic Control skill has several subskills. These abilities deal with mind over body, the mental manipulation of the self. ENHANCE AGILITY Success Rate: 40% + skill level The character concentrates for a full turn, then attempts this skill. If successful, he is permitted to add 10 times his current level to all DEX/RS checks for a duration of one round. At a cost of 1 additional Mental Endurance per turn, he can continue to keep the power invoked until he turns it off or runs out of psychic energy. ENHANCE PHYSIQUE Success Rate: 50% + skill level The character concentrates for a full turn, then attempts this skill. If successful, he is permitted to
add 10 times his current level to all STR/STA checks for a duration of one round. At a cost of 1 additional Mental Endurance per turn, he can continue to keep the power invoked until he turns it off or runs out of psychic energy. ENHANCE SENSES Success Rate: 60% + skill level The character concentrates for a full turn, then attempts this skill. If successful, he is permitted to add 10 times his current level to all Intuition checks for a duration of one round. At a cost of 1 additional Mental Endurance per turn, he can continue to keep the power invoked until he turns it off or runs out of psychic energy. HEAL SELF Success Rate: 100% + skill level – amount of damage to heal The character meditates for one full minute then attempts this skill. If successful, he heals the amount of damage he set out to heal. This healing is fairly miraculous – the character will suffer absolutely no scarring as the fabric of his body knits itself together at an amazing rate. Characters are always hungry after performing a Heal Self. HYPERMOVEMENT Success Rate: 65% + skill level The Mentalist concentrates for a full round then invokes this power. If successful, his movement rate will increase by a multiple equal to his skill level. For example, a Vrusk Mentalist (base running movement rate 35 meters per turn) that invoked a level 3 Metabolic Control skill could increase his running speed by (35 x 3 =) 105 meters per turn! This power can be kept up by spending further Mental Endurance, but the character can’t keep this level of activity up for any longer than he could normally run (a number of minutes equal to his Stamina score). Note that this same multiple applies to all leaping and jumping distances. At a cost of 1 additional Mental Endurance per turn, he can continue to keep the power invoked until he turns it off or runs out of psychic energy. PHEROMONE EMISSION Success Rate: 25% + skill level The character invokes this power and emits a psychic attraction to members of the opposite gender and the same species. Anyone who picks up the mental scent becomes enamored with the character, sees them as an object of sexual desire, for as long as the Mentalist continues to upkeep the pheromone emission (by spending one additional Mental Endurance point per turn). If the target(s) leave the proximity of the character (2 meters per skill level) the power begins to fade. An enamored character will generally do what is asked, as long as certain promises and favors are offered or provided. They may act to protect the character if it is within their nature to do so. The individual is not in love, they are in lust. They won’t willingly die for the character. PSYCHOKINESIS This skill deals with manipulation of external energies. It allows for personal sensing, manipulating, creation and destruction of subtle energy patterns. FIRE STARTER Success Rate: 40% + skill level This non combative ability allows the character to keep himself warm in cold elements, and allows him to invoke fire through sheer will. He can manipulate the energies of a fire, and cause it to burn brighter or dimmer, or to change in intensity/color. When the Mentalist invokes this power (and spends the invocation cost), he can continue to keep it up for very long periods of time. Each hour he can spend another point of Mental Endurance to keep up the power, thus keeping himself protected from the elements. This power can also be invoked in an offensive manner. He concentrates and makes his skill roll, in doing so creates a fireball that streaks towards an intended target. He has to roll to hit his target, just as if he were hurling a weapon at him. If it hits, it causes 1d10 damage per skill level. If it misses, the target was able to get out of the way and therefore takes half damage. Invoking Fire starter in this manner doesn’t last an hour, its effects are immediate. If the Mentalist wanted to hurl another fireball in the next round he could do so but it would be another invocation of this power. Note that this also does 5 points structural damage per skill level. INERTIA BARRIER Success Rate: 25% + skill level The character concentrates one round then invokes this ability. If successful, he has the equivalent of an Inertia Screen up. Each turn it is on drains one Mental Endurance (in addition to the invocation cost, of course). It protects the character from half of all ballistic damage. Each time it is struck, regardless of the amount of damage it absorbs, the character sustains another point of Mental Endurance damage. 165
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STAR FRONTIERS, WIZARDS OF THE COAS
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General Data Name Age Walking m/t R
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The Sathar had learned that they co
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the players cooperate and reach the
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Example: Yinang, an assassin charac
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Highway -- An artificial or natural
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while waiting for a pressure door t
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as fog, rain, blowing dust or heat
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Range If the attacker and his targe
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Ammunition Players must keep track
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Special Actions Besides simply hitt
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Variable Power Settings Laser pisto
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GROUND VEHICLE MOVEMENT Speeds Vehi
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y adding the vehicle's speed in met
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Example: BliCluet the Dralasite is
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28 Human Brick House STR/STA 75/65
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Character Generation Your character
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Sample Character #1 Noah is going t
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Physical Structure Dralasites are s
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Physical Structure Typical adult Hu
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Physical Structure Vrusk look like
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Physical Structure Yazirians are ta
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Skills There are 13 different skill
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however, no matter what the charact
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chance for success is lower, it req
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REMOVING SECURITY LOCKS Success Rat
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DEACTIVATING ALARMS/DEFENSES Succes
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character's heartbeat and breathing
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EMPATHY Success rate: 10% + skill l
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Improving Characters Characters can
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Defense 58 Cost (Cr) Wgt (kg) Energ
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60 Laser Pistol Gyrojet Pistol Soni
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62 Shock Glove Brass Knuckles Vibro
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turns. An individual can resist the
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uses 1 SEU when it hits. Anyone wea
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are available: military and civilia
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telescopic sights, and a character
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A robot can not attack unless it ha
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sidewalks, elevators and escalators
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mining natural resources. The plane
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The Frontier Worlds System/Planet C
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82 Human Gun-Fu Expert STR/STA 45/6
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How to Be a Referee A referee is ma
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actions. You may decide ahead of ti
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work week is five days of work with
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small, medium, large and giant. •
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Sample Creatures What follows are t
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DESCRIPTION: Cybodragons are huge l
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96 Mordax Type Small Omnivore Numbe
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100 Yernoids Type Medium Omnivore N
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STR/ DEX/ INT/ PER/ STA RS LOG LDR
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104 Human Soldier STR/STA 50/50 DEX
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Physical Structure Sathar are long,
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How to Referee Adventures Adventure
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4 NPCs and Creatures After you have
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