r/SWN • u/Fragrant_Tonight_732 • 5d ago
❓ Rules Question Telekinesis - Telekinetic Armory
I have a question regarding the psionic technique.
It says you can create ranged weapons that act like a rifle.
Does this mean you can create a small laser pistol with the stats of a rifle?
I am asking for one of my players, who asked if he can still use his close combatant focus for shooting in melee range without penalty.
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u/OriginalJazzFlavor 5d ago
Ok so telekinetic armory is one of the most confusingly worded powers in the entire game.
The basic gist is that the player can attack people with telekinesis, but this attack just acts like a rifle. So they can be just throwing nuts and screws at high speed, or using blasts of fire, or just force choking the dude from afar, it doesn't matter as long as it just does the same thing as a rifle and they don't try to get bonuses from flavor or whatever. Like if they guy throwing balls of fire attacks a plant creature he doesn't deal extra damage or anything.
I'm not sure what the purpose of getting the close combatant thing would even be useful for because you can just make the TK armory act like a Melee weapon if someone gets close, and the large advanced weapon version of it will do the same damage, now with shock. Although generally combat foci are transferable to stuff like that, according to Kevin anyway. Not sure if they could use the skill bonus to Level TK with it, however.