Re: Psionic "Spell"jammer???

> Mind flayers have Series Helms (psionic) as is, often thought they
> should
> work differently than normal helms, ie NOT drain you of psionic
> capacity for
> 24 hours after 1st contact.
> Why?
> Ok it takes say 3 or 4 mind flayers to run a series helm, if not
> more.
> That's their *major* ability ruined for the rest of the day. A mind
> flayer
> without psionics is a very unhappy beastie indeed!
> So, shouldn't series helms, due to them REQUIRING several users, work
> differently, in that they drain a *set* amount of psionic power
> points per
> hour of use AND per time in combat (higher drain on their powers).

Actually that's the first good reason I've seen for mind flayers to
actually breed psionic creatures/thralls.  It would explain why there
are gith (of all sorts) and other creatures illithids modified to be
psionic.  It takes 2-5 mind flayers to run a series helm with each seat
powering 20 tons (max 60 for the entire helm even if more than 3 seats)
IIRC and nautiloids are 35 tons.  So it only takes two illithids to run
the ship if they don't have some psionic slaves to do it for them.




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