Psi Sleights

Psi-chi sleights are async abilities that speed up cognitive informatics (internal information processing) and enhance the user’s perception and cognition.

Psi-gamma sleights deal with contacting (reading and communicating) and in uencing the function of biological minds (egos within a biomorph, but also including animal life). Psi-gamma is only available to characters with Level 2 of the Psi trait.

Most psi-gamma use is handled as an Opposed Test between the async and the target (EP p. 222).

Psi-epsilon is available to exsurgents with the Psi trait at Level 3. This subset of psi involves abilities that can affect the underlying physical nature of the universe, creating localized reality-altering effects. Psi manipulation on this level is extremely dangerous and should have the potential of disastrous consequences, given that these manipulations violate fundamental laws of nature and sometimes create paradoxes between the forces that glue the universe together. Gamemasters are also encouraged to treat critical failures as appropriately critical.

Given these factors, psi-epsilon should only be accessible to powerful adversaries and used as a gamemaster tool with extreme precaution. The exact mechanics of psi-epsilon sleights are left wide open, for whatever use the gamemaster can dream of. Their intent is to be more cinematic than mechanical, so Given these factors, psi-epsilon should only be accessible to powerful adversaries and used as a gamemaster tool with extreme precaution. The exact mechanics of psi-epsilon sleights are left wide open, for whatever use the gamemaster can dream of. Their intent is to be more cinematic than mechanical.

At the gamemaster’s discretion, simply observing psi-epsilon sleights in action may inflict 1d10 + 2 mental stress on a character (EP p. 214).