Blue_Lion wrote:eliakon wrote:World Book 12 (Psyscape) page 33, right column under Range wrote:Called Shot. Psionics that require the psychic to aim and shoot or to manipulate a psionic manifestation can make a "called shot." This means the character is aiming for a particular target, person or location. A successful roll to strike means a direct hit on the desired target. Same rules apply as when using a modern weapon.
I was rereading this thread and noticed the original post so thought I would bring something up.
Psiscape answers the question for us.
It says in black and white that psionic called shots have the same rules that apply as when using a modern weapon.
That makes it easy.
We simply go to the modern weapon section and read the rules for called shots and find out what is required and how they work.
No fuss, no muss, the canon is perfectly clear...just read the listed rules and follow them (or house rule them if you do not like the canon)
The mechanics for a called shot do not require a weapon proficency.
RUE the rules for Modern Weapons (which Psiscape we are to use) explicitly DO say just that.
RUE Page 360 wrote: "...A character with a modern weapon proficiency can make Aimed and "Called Shots..."
RUE Page 360 wrote: "...A character with no gun proficiency rolls 1d20 with no bonuses to strike, can NOT make an Aimed Shot or a Called Shot..."
Seems pretty black and white there.
And since Psiscape explicitly states to use the rules for modern weapons... well then the rules for modern weapons are the rules that apply.
Now yes, the rules for "called shots" themselves on page 361 don't... but those are not, and I quote, the same rules apply as using a modern weapon... and as such have as much bearing on this as the rules for rolling stats.
Blue_Lion wrote:The block on making called shots for no weapon proficency is found in rules for use of weapons without proficiency not in rules for called shot.
Yes, but those are not the rules for modern weapons are they. Which psiscape says to use. You can use a different set of rules if you wish as house rules... but the canon as per psiscape is that we use the modern weapon rules, not the rules for non-modern weapons but the rules for
modern weapons.
Blue_Lion wrote:Basically there is nothing saying you require a WP to make a called shot with Psi powers.
You mean other than the statement in psiscape saying that they are to use the modern weapon rules, which require WPs?
Blue_Lion wrote:There is something saying if you are using a weapon without a WP you can not make a called shot.
Yep. And since Psiscape states that we are to use those rules
specifically that means no WP no called shots.
Blue_Lion wrote:(The book you are quoting was written before RUE changed the rules.)
Yes, and in RMB days the rules were different. But this is
not the RMB days. The rules now are the rules as per RUE and not RMB. That is what "new rules" means When new rules are published they supplant the old rules. Thus if a new book comes out and makes a new rule that replaces an old rule the old rule is replaced...
even in the old books where it appears if those books are used for other material. And in RUE the rules for modern weapons
were changed. And as part of that change they now
require a WP to make called and aimed shots. And as Psiscape refers
specifically to the rules for modern weapons and not to simply the generic called shot rules...it uses the rules for modern weapons. And in RUE it that means that it uses the
RUE rules, W.P.s and all, and not the RMB ones.