The "Many Uses" of Mind Blank

[Morfedel]

So, I'm working on a psion character class I was going to unveil on the license to improvise site, and started going through all the powers that allow things like telepathic and telekinetic powers.

Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Mind Blank only effects one spell, Detect Emotion, as there seems to be no other spells that allow for any kind of mind reading.

I didn't do a comprehensive reading of every single spell, or power or ability. I read all the spell titles, and didn't see anything.

The same is also true of telekinetic type effects. I didnt look as hard, as I was more focused on telepathic style effects at the time, but I didn't see anything there either.

Is it my imagination, or is Mind Blank, as it stands with the book, pretty close to worthless? Not counting any custom GM made stuff? Or have I missed something, which admittedly is entirely possible, as I have to borrow the book to get my info currently heh

[Crafty_Alex]

There are plenty of other spells that read minds coming in Spellbound.

[Morfedel]

There are plenty of other spells that read minds coming in Spellbound.

I shoulda guessed.  

You can understand my confusion though, seeing a power that turns out to have very little function based on the book as written. Then again, it wouldn't have been too hard to translate other 3.x stuff into FC in the meantime anyway.

I was just frustrated because I was designing a kind of telepathy line for a psionic class I was making, and was going to base it off of the telepathic style powers in FC.. only to discover that while the mind blank power to prevent the telepathy was in there, the actual mind reading wasn't, hehe!

Ah well. No biggie. I am going to have to pony up for the FC 2nd printing soon, and I'm gonna need the money for spellbound as well, and that in addition to the adventure companion.

I just need to decide the print or pdf version. I almost always go for print, but the game I'll be running will be online, and besides, having a search function makes things so much easier, heh!

EDIT:  I can't tell, I'm sleepy and my wife and I had a quarrel a bit earlier. If the above was snarky, my apologies now for it.

[Gentry]

There is also a Telepathy NPC quality in the Foes chapter.

[Typhon]

lol and that was like sesame street snark 
I don't think you need to appologize for it.

Personally, I'm glad I don't have to worry much about psions. I only have a 3 Will save!

[Morfedel]

There is also a Telepathy NPC quality in the Foes chapter.

Ah, great, that makes it much more useful! Thanks! Although all it says is you can mentally communicate.. as opposed to reading unwilling minds, etc, so....

[Gentry]

Yeah, but if you can communicate telepathically, I see no reason you can't use suggestion/beguiling/etc. silently via telepathy. Using a Mind Blank type of power to make yourself telepathically "deaf" could be handy against something like that.