Improved Telepathy
MindUniversal- Cost
- 2 FP
- Activation
- Action
- Range
- 60 ft
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 5+
Effect
As an Action, you open a brief telepathic link between yourself and a small group. Choose up to a number of creatures equal to your Proficiency Bonus that you can see within 60 ft, each of which must share a language with you. For 1 minute, you and the chosen creatures can silently exchange simple thoughts, emotions, and brief phrases with one another as long as they remain within 60 ft of you. Unwilling creatures may make a Wisdom saving throw (DC = 8 + your Proficiency Bonus + your Wisdom modifier) to resist being included. This power does not allow you to read thoughts or memories, only to send and receive intentional messages.
At the Table
Pinned down in a collapsing spice refinery, your Padawan spends 2 FP and opens a silent link to the three squadmates she can see within 60 ft (her Proficiency Bonus is +3). For the next minute they coordinate a flanking push without a single word for the Trandoshan mercs to overhear — "left catwalk, on my mark, grab the engineer." When she tries to loop in the wavering bounty hunter beside them, he resists: he rolls a Wisdom save against her DC (8 + her PB + her WIS mod) and shrugs off the contact. No matter — she can send and receive, but she still can't pry a single thought or memory from anyone's head.
In the Lore
Telepathy is one of the oldest applications of the Sense discipline, the Force-tradition of perceiving minds and presences beyond sight and sound. Jedi have long used a refined, focused form of mind-to-mind contact to coordinate in the field: across the films and series, Force-users like Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa reach one another across great distances, and bonded Jedi can silently exchange short warnings and impressions in the heat of a crisis — as when Ezra Bridger reaches out to alert his allies to a waiting trap in Star Wars Rebels. Crucially, this kind of disciplined "comm-link" telepathy is consensual and intentional — it sends and receives thoughts rather than tearing them loose, which is why it sits apart from the more invasive mind-probing favored by the Sith. As a Universal power it suits Jedi, Gray, and dark-side practitioners alike, but it is most at home in the Jedi tradition of teamwork and quiet communion through the Force.