Skill roll takes long-distance modifiers instead of having a fixed range

PP58 used to create Borrow Skill power from the Telepathic Learning variant of Modular Abilities introduced on PP16 which normally is limited by: "someone within one mile must know the trait that you’re adding .. If the distance between you and the nearest “donor” becomes more than a mile, you lose the trait!"
It instead operates using B241's Long-Distance modifiers penalties on the roll. It obviously only works because of limiting Telepathic Learning with "requires IQ roll" so there actually IS a roll to penalize.
This feature has the effect of increasing the range beyond a mile, but with the downside that normally unpenalized rolls within a mile are harder (-1 between 200 yards and 1/2 mile, -2 between half-mile and 1 mile)
There is still a termination but it's vague: "if the distance between you and the donor increases enough to take that person out of range."
Since there is no maximum range, it becomes unclear what "out of range" refers to. This might refer to reducing effective skill to 3 or less (you couldn't attempt the ability) or perhaps keeping track of the original roll and if it would have failed had using the higher-penalized skill.
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