Mental Barrier

General Info

Talent category	Mental Specialty
Method of purchase	During gameplay or character creation
Personality traits	None

Requirements

Banned talents

Psionics and Chi Strike

Description

This talent indicates that you have a strong barrier in your mind, giving you a bonus of +50 Protection against mental attacks, and a natural mental immunity rating of 50% on all locations. Because the barrier is subconscious, pain penalties do not apply when calculating your Protection rating. Unfortunately the barrier works both ways, preventing you from ever learning psionic powers and giving you a -25 penalty to Ascendancy should you ever learn magic, as well as preventing you from ever using mindthrust techniques should you gain mental powers through some other means. The Protection bonus and Ascendancy penalty are added before percentage modifiers.