Empathy

Cost: 5 or 15 points

Empathy is mundane mental advantage where you have a “feeling” for people.

• Sensitive: 5 points
• Empathy: 15 points

Special Enhancements

• Remote (+50%)

Specialized Limitations

• Specialized: Limitations of Speak With Animals and Speak With Plants

Alternatives

• Speak With Animals
• Speak With Plants
• Medium
• Seeing spirits requires See Invisible.
• To read thoughts, not emotions, use Mind Probe or Mind Reading

Variants

GURPS Psionic Powers has "Emotion Sense" which allow the Melee Attack and Contact Agent to be bought, or Short Range 2 (normal range penalties) or Short Range 1 (long-range modifiers) and says there are no penalties at all for unmodified. Remote is also used.

quotes

PK

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?p=2103288

without Remote, unmodified Empathy is limited to close, personal meetings

versus cosmic Indomitable

TBA

See also

• Influencing the PCs
• Sensitive

References

• Basic Set pg 51
• GURPS Powers pg 48