MGT Only: Anyone want to try to fix this for MgT2e?

[Spinward Scout]

I've been working on this Psionic skill from The New Era rulebook, and I can't figure out if it's even working right.

Would someone else like to take a shot at bringing it into Mongoose? I don't know where to go with it.

Orientation

While other Awareness skills are based on the character's awareness of his or her own bodily interactions in the present, the Orientation skill reflects the character's awareness of his or her body's interactions with its surroundings over time. Orientation allows the character to become aware of his or her relationship to other locations on the same world. These locations must be ones that the character has actually visited. Locations with which the character is intimately familiar (his or her home) are rolled at the normal difficulty level; locations which are less familiar become gradually more difficult at the referee's discretion. Success at this task gives the character sufficient information to allow a Sense task to be made for that location. The character retains this orientation so long as he or she does not move more than a kilometer from the point at which the Orientation task was made.
Check: Easy (4+) +2 Difficulty per less familiarity of location, Clairvoyance check, (1D seconds, PSI)
Reach: Planetary
PSI Cost: 1 per Difficulty

It seems to be mixing Awareness and Clairvoyance. Which would be neat, if we can get it to work.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Looks like the skill you need to have in order to properly target your arrival point for teleportation.

 

[Rupert]

Well 'Awareness' is the MgT equivalent of TNE's 'Self' talent, so it probably belongs there, and would allow Sense in the same way. As MgT's Sense has an undefined maximum range, I'd just allow it to be usable on any location on a world that Orientation allowed the psion to orient on. So, by properly orienting themselves with everywhere they've been on a world, the psion gets to use Sense at any distance, without having to precisely define distance and direction.

In both cases this means its possibly not very useful psionically speaking - if you lack other talents it's not going to help you psionically. However, I'd also allow Orientation to be useful in a mundane way - it should also tell you roughly where these places you've been before are relative to you in normal space, making it useful for navigation if you lack satellite navigation systems or inertial mapping gear.

 

[kilemall]

Looks like the skill you need to have in order to properly target your arrival point for teleportation.

Ya straight out of Bester.

 

[Spinward Scout]

I'd probably be best if I incorporated both of those. Teleportation was what I thought of before I read it was for Sense.

Should it be a +1 to Clairvoyance AND a +1 to Teleportation?

I don't know what exact benefit it's giving the character.

 

[bookwyrm]

Psionic Waypoints based on locations you have physically visited.

You wouldn't need this for Clairvoyance, but it would allow you to know in which direction the location of the area you are using Clairvoyance on is.

It wouldn't be good to use this with Teleportation, as they would both have the same parameters. If it's your home, you can Orient on it just as easily as you could Teleport to it. If it's a basement that you escaped from after being kidnapped & drugged for 2 days three years ago, you would have just as hard a time Orienting on it as you would trying to Teleport to it.

You could use it to triangulate a location you Oriented on that you haven't visited for a few years/decades but need to find for some reason in the present.

 

[Commander Truestar]

I would say....in my opinion....that it is equivalent to "determining your coordinates"
Such a sense would tell you are, specifically with relation to other actions you want to carry out.

Like looking at a map, determining your coordinates and then setting up a telescope view some distant point.
If you don't know where you are with relation to the point you want to surveil, you spend more time and energy looking for that point before you can find it and carry out your work.

Except, in this case, you are establishing a psychic "connection" with all the locations on the world

So, where Telepathy is concerned, you can avoid spending more time and effort seeking the mind of a person to whom you're related in one of those locations
Where Teleport is concerned, you can streamline the amount of concentration used to 'port to one of those locations
Where Clairvoyance is concerned, you can more quickly and completely fine tune your sense of what's happening at one of those locations

As I see it, which may be different than how you see it, this is the ability to create psionic ties to places you've created an affinity for, with, to reduce the effort needed to connect any other talent with those locations.

It's like performing semi-annual maintenance on your drives before making a series of jumps, and carrying out pre-jump reset work before every jump.