Will (Base Ability)

“ Will measures character's mental determination to see to his actions regardless of various mental difficulties, such as pain, suggestion and overwhelming odds, as well as to force his will onto others and the environment.

It heavily affects the potency of all psi disciplines, as well as psi point regeneration. ”

— In-game description

Details

Will determines your effectiveness with psi abilities and your chance to resist mental effects (Resolve). It also determines your character's overall determination to certain actions, such as persuading or intimidating NPCs in conversation to make them choose your side of the argument. Some psionic dialogue options also require your character to have a minimum score of pure will in order to succeed. No items require will to be used or equipped. Psi point regeneration scales with will and intelligence: psi regen = 5 + (will+int)/2

High will score is important for psionic characters.

Related Base Ability	Skill Synergies
Thought Control Psychokinesis Metathermics Temporal Manipulation E Persuasion Intimidation	Resolve Psi regen Dialogue options

Related feats

See Category:Will feats.

• Increased Will veteran feat increases it by 2.

Related items

Equipment

• Tchortist Noble Robe (+1 Will on equip)
• Perceptual Isolation Helmet ^HD (+1 Will on equip)

Food

• All-in (temporarily +3 all base abilities)
• Boolean (temporarily -3 all base abilities)
• Junkyard Surprise (temporary random base ability effect, can only decrease Will)
• Slackjaw (cocktail) (temporary -1 Will)
• Mystery Candy (temporary -1 Will)

Will checks

Base Ability checks for Will aren't common. They're mostly used to either interface with certain psi crystals and gain knowledge from them or to attempt to resist certain foreign psionic phenomena.

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• Mysterious Pillars (Silent Isle), 7 Will and 35 Thought Control
• Mysterious Pillars (Core City Sewers), 8 Will
• Monolith (Institute of Tchort), 10 Will
• Crystal Mainframe, 7 Will
• Mysterious Pillars (Deep Caverns), 8 Will
• Monolith (Jaws), 12 Will
• Port Ceto - Katya's Homestead underwater rock bridge requires one of the following to detect without knowing about it:
  • Psi Empathy and 11 Will
  • Psi Empathy and 130 Thought Control
  • Second Sight and 7 Will
  • Second Sight and 80 Thought Control
• Black Rock, 7 Will
• Shadowlith, 6 Will and 80 effective skill in any psi school

History

• 1.1.2.0: Intimidation now scales off either Strength or Will (whichever is higher), updated in-game description
• 0.2.0.1: psi point regeneration scales with will and intelligence
• 0.1.14.0: will no longer increases psi pool, psi regenerates (20 points per turn)