New Action: Clairvoyance

[piratespice]

CLAIRVOYANCE
Cost Level = Action Number + Options

Description
This Action allows you to send your senses to other places and times, and perceive that with normally cannot be perceived.

Clairvoyance: Perceive the unperceivable. You can spend stones to observe the invisible, spirits, the dead, astral bodies, magical and psionic energies, etc. Once you have perceived something, it costs 1 stone/Panel to continue perceiving it (unless something occurs to hide it again).

For all options that allow you to observe another time, refer to the Duration row of the D&R to determine the length of time from the present that can be perceived.

Options
• Remote Viewing: You can observe places beyond your normal ability to sense (even your current location if rendered blind, deaf, etc.). Refer to the Ranges row of the D&R to determine the distance from current location that can be perceived. (+2 to Cost Level)
• Psychometry: Can read the "psychic imprint" that people leave on objects they have handled, allowing you to perceive past events around the object and handler. (+1 to Cost Level)
• Precognition: Perceive the future events of your current location. Will show the most likely future, but the future can be changed, so it is not totally accurate. (+2 to Cost Level)
• Postcognition: Perceive the past events of your current location. (+1 to Cost Level)
• Aura Sight: You can perceive the auras of living things, giving you clues as to their emotional state, as well as their nature (i.e. a supernatural creature, a mutant, etc.). (+1 to Cost Level)
• Intelligence Bonus. (+2 to Cost Level)
• May purchase Prescience at -1 to Cost Level (if using my new version of Prescience found in this forum...otherwise "May purchase Prescience for -1 white stone.").

Comments
Don't like being surprised? This Action permits you to learn all about events far away from you…or even those that haven't happened yet. Though this may seem powerful, remember that you still have to actively look to discover these things.

Rules for Action Box:
• Perceive the unperceivable
• 1 stone/Panel to continue perceiving
• (Insert options)

[psistrike]

Nice new Action,good for a character like Destiny to have.

[angel]

Psistrike said:

Nice new Action,good for a character like Destiny to have.

agreed psi, i like how Pirate manages to keep it balanced , as well as reasonable.

[torment]

wouldn't it be simpler to include these as options under the guise of telepathy, as basically clairavoyance is but another form of telepathy

[piratespice]

Torment said:

wouldn't it be simpler to include these as options under the guise of telepathy, as basically clairavoyance is but another form of telepathy

Er...no. Because Clairvoyence isn't even remotely another form of telepathy.

A lot of people seem to think that telepathy equals psychic powers. Telepathy is but one example of classic psychic powers. Clairvoyance is another. One has to do with sending and recieving signals from one's brain to another's. The other has to do with extending one's senses beyond physical limits...no inter-brain activity at all. Related? Sure, there's an argument for it. But they're hardly the same thing at all.

Even the Marvel Universe itself doesn't feel that they're the same thing. Look at the classic telepaths: Professor Xavier, Jean Grey, Psylocke, Emma Frost, etc. How many of them are clairvoyent? None. At best, a few can use astral projection (depending upon the writer).

But here's the the beauty of MURPG. There are rules in place for combining Actions. So if your character's telepathic and clairvoyent powers come from the same source, and somehow work the same way, go ahead and combine them. Just be ready to pay the cost for it.

[torment]

I see your point and have thus added your action to my house rules - thanks (hope you do not mind)

[piratespice]

Mind? Of course not. That's why these forums are here. I'm flattered and overjoyed that you find my ideas good enough to become a part of your game.