rule-psychic-powers

name	rule-psychic-powers
description	Psychic subsystem summary: psychic points, action costs, opposed resolutions, enhancement stacking, and ability families.

Psychic Powers Rules (Thematic)

Scope

Use this skill for psychic build guidance, ability adjudication, enhancement choices, and mental-resource management.

System fundamentals

• Psychic abilities are powered by psychic points.
• Most powers are major actions; some are minor/utility.
• Activation usually requires opposed rolls (often Intelligence vs Willpower/Strength).
• Enhancements increase effect scope/duration/potency at additional resource cost.

Ability families

• Telekinetic: force, displacement, restraint, spatial manipulation.
• Telepathic: perception disruption, control, communication, suppression.
• Precognitive/Temporal: foresight, timing manipulation, repositioning, probability control.

Tactical identities

• Battlefield control (zones, movement denial, forced positioning).
• Ally support (defensive fields, linking, action reliability boosts).
• Burst and attrition tools (nova effects, siphons, sustained pressure).

Risk and balance model

• Psychic economy is finite and must be rationed across encounter cadence.
• Some powers include backlash or self-risk mechanisms.
• Enhancement overcommitment can leave a psychic tactically dry in later rounds.

Common adjudication checks

• Resolve each target roll where ability says separate roll.
• Respect sustain mechanics and concentration-like constraints when listed.
• Apply one-time enhancement limits where explicitly capped.

Search cues / aliases

psychic points, psionic ability, enhancement, int vs willpower, telekinetic, telepathic, precog, psychic build.