Admittedly Light Sabers probably are not even possible by the laws of physics and I have my doubts about sonic swords.<br /><br />I was working on a little project dealing with mentalist skills and it occurred to me that a light saber doesn't even need to be possible by the laws of physics. Anyone with mentalist disciplines would have the ability to "build their own" device that in the hands on a non mentalist would be little better than a flash light. but through the special understanding of mental energies gained by being a mentalist they can construct circuitry that will allow them to shape light energy into a saber. <br /><br />Being a mentalist will then allow them to use the light saber as a sonic sword doing 1D of damage per level as a mentalist. Also they could at level 2 deflect missile attacks that would otherwise be intercepted normally by an inertia screen at 1/2 RS + 10% per level. At level 4 beam weapon attacks can be deflected for 1/2 RS + 10% level.(I chose RS since LOG is already high in a mentalist character and I dont want them to be juggernauts- RS is their ability to re-act to a developing situation which is what combat is) this roll is made after a successful attack.<br /><i><b>OR</b></i><br />when the mentalist declares himself to be defending he against missile attacks the attacker must subtract 1/2 RS + 10%/level of the mentalist's skill from his chance to hit. The mentalist cannot move faster than half speed nor attack. If he's attacked by multiple missle attacks he can split the amount of penalty to the attackers among the shots coming at him as he sees fit but he must specify how much is being applied to each shot. ie a 4th level mentalist with RS of 40 would have 60% of penalty to incercept missile attacks. He's being shot at by a lvl 1 mook taking careful aim with a autopistol (1 shot) and by a lvl 4 mook with a gyrojet pistol (3 shots) He desides to defend agains the level 4 shooter and take his chances with the lvl 1 shooter so he applies 20% against all there of the lvl 4 shooter's shots. <br /><br />I would further consider limiting mentalist to a number of uses of their mentalist skills to their LOG/ 5 per day in addition to other limitations on certain skills give in their descriptions.<br />For enlightened characters the limit would be LOG/ 10 per day. this would certainly cause a mentalist to fall back on his light saber quite a bit rather than blow through his mental energy using up the number of times he can employ disciplines. <br /><br />Just a random thoughts I had today, feedback?
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