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I fgure it makes the Psychic a living radio...I'll post soon.

Also working a few others. I just wondered how many would actually use it.

It might make a good Super Hero power....but as a PSI power it sorta not practicble.

The two things you can do with radio is recive and send.

The things you'd be able to do is listen to broadcast (only those that are sent 'in the clear'), and send out radio broadcasts.
While the second might be usefull in creating an area of jamming.
Remember, PSI powers are much like skills that you have to learn.

The limitations I see are that with the nessessary lead time for the Training as a PSI power it would be limited to the Super Cat. and furthermore limited to the initale powers set. Also that the time & ISP limits would also make it impractible.

As a Hero power you don't get the limitations of time and power, and you'd just "be able to" read and send radio trasmitions. But because they already have a radar power the radio power would be a Major Power.

gadrin wrote:Psi-Reception
Range: Self
Duration: 6 minutes + 1 minute per level
Saving Throw: None
ISP: 4 or 8

The psychic can bend radio waves to their ear on a set frequency. They can hear this frequency for the entire time the power is active. If the psychic also wants their voice to transmit, they can expend a further 4 I.S.P.

Alternately, the psychic may instead 'tap' a phone or radio they can see by expending 8 I.S.P.

I'd be a little specific about things like frequency to avoid questions about how the power works, or letting overly technical players or GMs screw over the other.

Rimmerdal wrote:I fgure it makes the Psychic a living radio...I'll post soon.

Also working a few others. I just wondered how many would actually use it.

The ability to manipulate Radio waves on a high enough frequency would be deadly ...

gadrin wrote:Well that's kinda the thing with Palladium, you either write a dissertation with numerous clauses and turn out a 10-page whitepaper for "Melt Butter"

LOL!

That was beautiful. That was simply beautiful, because it was true.

gadrin wrote:Just make it a pre-cursor to Electrokinesis sorta what they did with Night Vision in Rifts where it's a "form of bio-manipulation".

In Psionics Unlimited we had Psi-Reception, but I was thinking about it yesterday as a pre-cursor and another option to Electrokinesis.

Psi-Reception
Range: Self
Duration: 6 minutes + 1 minute per level
Saving Throw: None
ISP: 4 or 8

The psychic can bend radio waves to their ear on a set frequency. They can hear this frequency for the entire time the power is active. If the psychic also wants their voice to transmit, they can expend a further 4 I.S.P.

Alternately, the psychic may instead 'tap' a phone or radio they can see by expending 8 I.S.P.


Hopefully you'll come up with something interesting.

Yeah, I have ideas. This covers parts of it, but I plan on adding scrambling and other abilities of a radio.

This means the Psychic can send and receive Radio signals as if he were a radio himself. (Hence he don't need no silly field radio...)

the second power I'm working on is Iso-Kinesis (Pychic control of radiation...)

gadrin wrote:snip...

The psychic can bend radio waves to their ear on a set frequency.

...snip

Interesting bit of Technobabble. "Bending" light into sound.

More like the Psi has trained a part of his brain to 'hear' radio waves.

Radar absorbing coatings on armor and vehicals would dim the radio quit a bit but could not totally block out the strngest signals being recived by the power. It would block any signals from the Psi.
You also have to worry about Nukes, they produce very high powered radio signals, and would hurt, dumb down (-IQ), lobotimize, or outright kill the PSI.