Distant Telepathy
MindUniversal- Cost
- 3 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- Same planet
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 12+
Effect
As an Action, you reach out with the Force to communicate mentally with a creature you are familiar with. If the creature is on the same planet, it feels your presence and may send back a brief emotional impression or a single short thought. If the creature is unwilling or hostile to you, it may make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Wisdom modifier) to block the contact. This power does not allow you to read memories or control the creature's thoughts.
At the Table
Stranded on the far side of the planet with a dead comlink, your Consular spends an Action and 3 FP to reach out to the Padawan she trained back at the spaceport. The bond is real, so the girl instantly feels her master's presence and sends back a single short thought — "ambush, the cantina" — plus a wash of fear. Later that night she tries the same trick on the captured bounty hunter holed up across the city, but he's hostile and slams the door: he makes his Wisdom save (DC 8 + her Proficiency Bonus + her Wisdom modifier) and feels nothing but a cold prickle. No memories, no mind control — just a whisper across the world, and only if the other end lets it in.
In the Lore
Telepathy is one of the oldest disciplines of the Sense school of the Force, and reaching across great distances to touch a familiar mind is a feat associated with deeply bonded Force-users. In the films, Luke Skywalker calls out to Leia from the underside of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back, and the twins' bond lets them sense one another across space throughout the saga. Jedi and Sith are repeatedly shown perceiving the distress of those they are close to even when far apart, sensing a familiar presence across a battlefield, a city, or even a planet. In Legends, planet-spanning and even galaxy-spanning telepathic contact through a Force-bond was well established among trained Jedi and Sith, the link between twins or master and apprentice sometimes reaching with no apparent limit. True to the canon depiction, it transmits feelings and brief thoughts between the willing rather than ripping secrets from an unguarded mind — that deeper intrusion belongs to the separate art of the mind probe.