Unnatural Willpower

By turinmacleod, in Deathwatch

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MILLANDSON said:

And I would have thought that it was a Skill Test in some cases (such as when it uses the Psyniscience skill to test against).

It would be, but Psyniscience is a Perception-based skill, so Unnatural Willpower has no effect on Psyniscience Tests in that regard. Essentially, Unnatural Willpower has an influence on Opposed Willpower Tests, Willpower-based Skill Tests, and Focus Power Tests, granting a distinct benefit in each case. A character with Unnatural Willpower and Unnatural Perception would gain two of the Unnatural Characteristic benefits when making a Psyniscience Test which was also a Focus Power test (the former gets the 1-step-easier benefit from Unnatural Perception, the latter gets the bonus Psy Rating from Unnatural Willpower).

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KommissarK said:

Also, while I have not seen the book myself, alot of things I have heard appear to make use of PR over WB as the means of increasing the effectiveness of a power, so Unnat Will may not be as totally useful as it would be in DH or RT.

Actually, most of the powers in Rogue Trader scale based on Psy Rating as well - which I feel is a far better way to do things - so it's only really Dark Heresy that still scales off of Willpower Bonus for most things (which causes scaling problems when you get to Ascension-level psykers).