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The Oh So Amazing Nate wrote:I'd say the big limiting factor is how much weight can you TK and do you have the isp to do it. It wouldn't be so much flying as it would be hanging on for dear life as this thing drags you through the air (if we're going with the hammer model)

Rimmerdal wrote:See title.

Killer Cyborg wrote:

Rimmerdal wrote:See title.

Yes, you can.
For that matter, you can move yourself directly using telekinesis.
The speed of flight is determined by the Range of the power: you can move one Range increment per attack.

I'd link to the Topic where we discussed this ad nauseum, but the site won't let me Search right now.
You've been around. Take my word on this one.

Rimmerdal wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:

Rimmerdal wrote:See title.

Yes, you can.
For that matter, you can move yourself directly using telekinesis.
The speed of flight is determined by the Range of the power: you can move one Range increment per attack.

I'd link to the Topic where we discussed this ad nauseum, but the site won't let me Search right now.
You've been around. Take my word on this one.

Ya KC, I'd take your word anyway. Hell we butted heads first time I posted on here..LOL! aah the good ole days.

Tor wrote:The interesting thing about TK is presumably throwing a rock 200 feet is just as damaging as throwing it 2 feet. I'm not sure why. I guess there's something about it which negates the concept of acceleration and instates a fixed velocity, in spite of moving a rock entirely different distances in a single melee attack.

Tor wrote:The interesting thing about TK is presumably throwing a rock 200 feet is just as damaging as throwing it 2 feet. I'm not sure why. I guess there's something about it which negates the concept of acceleration and instates a fixed velocity, in spite of moving a rock entirely different distances in a single melee attack.

eliakon wrote:

Tor wrote:The interesting thing about TK is presumably throwing a rock 200 feet is just as damaging as throwing it 2 feet. I'm not sure why. I guess there's something about it which negates the concept of acceleration and instates a fixed velocity, in spite of moving a rock entirely different distances in a single melee attack.

Probably the same stuff that negates all those other pesky real world physics issues that come up in the game....."ease of play" I mean yah you CAN have a game that figures the difference between small fast objects damage, and large slow ones, or sharp cuts vs blunt impact, vs stabs, vs burns, vs chemical vs.....(trust me I have played some of those) but they are rather unwieldy for many things, one of which is fast cinematic style play (Like the Palladium system is based around) since I would assume most of the Palladium System gamers don't want collections of rule books the size of phone books......yah, many simplifications will be made.

RiftJunkie wrote:I don't see why you couldn't, as long as you have enough ISP to move the combined total weight.
Just my $.02

relicandcheese wrote:Yeah, I read the F.A.Q. too, but I think I would go with this thread. I haven't encountered this yet in my game, but it is interesting to note that Telekinesis: Simple only has a 10lb tolerance, so if some smart guy drops an 11 lb rock on you or your telekinetically enchanted self or object, you lose control. Then you'll need to sort out 're-catch' rules. Telekinesis: Super has a tolerance of 100lb, so it's a fair bit better, but same danger does apply.

I haven't decided yet if I would allow flight for Super tk only, or both...

Killer Cyborg wrote:Say you weigh 250 lbs including gear.
With Super TK, you'd use 30 ISP to move 100' per level per attack for 2 minutes per level.
So at first level, you could fly a total of 3200' or so (100' x 4 attacks per melee x 8 melees) from one use of the power.
That's something like 53.33'/second, or about 36.3636 mph.

Mack wrote:

Killer Cyborg wrote:Say you weigh 250 lbs including gear.
With Super TK, you'd use 30 ISP to move 100' per level per attack for 2 minutes per level.
So at first level, you could fly a total of 3200' or so (100' x 4 attacks per melee x 8 melees) from one use of the power.
That's something like 53.33'/second, or about 36.3636 mph.

Not to dispute your overall point, but I think you have a math error here.

3200 ft / 120 seconds = 26.66 ft/sec, or about 18.18 mph.

And I noticed that this becomes a much more viable way to travel as the character levels up. By level 5, that same ISP gets the character 15.2 miles in 10 minutes, or a speed of 90.9 mph. At level 10, it jumps to 60.6 miles in 20 minutes, or 181.8 mph! (Note - I kept the number of attacks constant at 4.)