Animate Life-forms

*see also Animated Life-forms (Partial)
Animate Life-forms is an S28 enhancement for Telekinesis. It works like Animation but isn't limited to controlling inanimate objects.
The Quick Contest is not defined as resistance, so there is not any actual need to roll under the TK ST, you can merely "fail by less" and still pass.
The ability works very all or nothing. The result of a success is being able to use your DX and their full ST.
The 'move cannot exceed margin' would use the base rules of Move = TK level (modified for encumbrance) so it seems only here this matters.
A policy such as "effective ST cannot exceed margin" would probably make more sense.
This would prevent for example, rolling a 3 for TK 1 (fails by 2) gaining complete control over a rolled 18 for ST21 (fails by 3). If it was margin-based ST then only 1 effective ST would apply here.
The limitation of needing TK equal to HP presumably still applies. It's unclear if that's full HP (like unliving) or perhaps doubled, in respect to how it seems to scale with cover DR (double: for example Homogenous needs 1/2 HP ST to operate compared to 1/4 HP cover DR)
Category:Enhancements