Sig Item for Ahab - Crystal of Mentalism

[Ahab]

Signature Item: Crystal of Mentalism - enchanted item

Minor Upgrades
+2 Psionics skill rolls (twice) - 5000x2=10,000cr
Major Upgrades
+1 Die Type to Psionics skill - 10,000cr
Mentalist Edge: +2 to opposed Psionics rolls - 50,000cr

Total Cost: 70,000

Obtained from traveling folk in the wilderness near Poznan, Ahab was told this crystal would help to focus his mind. The crystal is light blue and dangles from a silver setting around his neck. Who's to argue with traveling folk, and Ahab find that when wearing "me mental rock" it is much easier to perceive the motivations of others.

[Freemage]

+5 to opposed Psionics rolls, eh? Very nice. (Especially if Ahab did the power-down option and took the Pro/Expert Edges at creation through Born a Hero..... But yeah, it's legit.

[Ndreare]

Huh,
Depends on the game it is for. This could break a game. Or it could fit in fine.

I had a similar item denied for one character using Spellcasting. Then one using Vigor approved for another.

Better tag your GM. Some game masters have an unreasonable dislike for power game items. I think it's because they get jealous.

[Ahab]

Potential for game breaking because the bonus is so high right? I can only think of 3 powers that have opposed rolls, mind reading (which I have), mind wipe, and puppet. I had not planned to take puppet, and I certainly can see how the heavy bonus here would lead to virtually auto-raises.

For mind-reading, the primary advantage is that with a raise no one is aware of the intrusion, which is primarilly what I was going for.

There may be other places where opposed rolls could be an issue, I suppose,

[Ahab]

This is for ex-machina, so I talked to Stoic about it, he seems OK with it as is.

[Ndreare]

Potential for game breaking because the bonus is so high right? I can only think of 3 powers that have opposed rolls, mind reading (which I have), mind wipe, and puppet. I had not planned to take puppet, and I certainly can see how the heavy bonus here would lead to virtually auto-raises.

For mind-reading, the primary advantage is that with a raise no one is aware of the intrusion, which is primarilly what I was going for.

There may be other places where opposed rolls could be an issue, I suppose,

TK can also be contested and this would go awesome with that!