Using Telekinesis

The source of truth for this skill is https://highdex.net/sw/ForceSkill.php?ID=30, but the important factors are described below too.

• Use Concentrate for 2 turns on the object you want to affect (you must be able to perceive the object)
• Spend 1 point of fatigue
• Roll your skill check

If you fail your skill roll, you have spent your time and fatigue, with no successful effect. You can try again, but you have to spend the time and fatigue again. If you succeed on your roll, and the object is within your ability to move it at a speed of at least 0.01 inches per second (see the table above of highest weights for a given speed), you can move it as long as you spend your turn concentrating on that object, up to 1 second per level of your Force Bond. After that time, you can maintain the effect by spending the same amount of fatigue and then making a new skill check. This way, extended efforts can tire you out, and can fail in the middle.

Telekinesis Options

Each time you begin using Telekinesis, you can select options to apply to that use of the ability. If you maintain the effect, the same options apply which can affect your effective skill or the fatigue cost. If you are moving more than your ideal weight, the minimum fatigue cost to maintain the effect is 1. Even if you quickly just try again as a separate attempt, you must pay at least 1 fatigue for the new period of time. You will tire out eventually.

• Quick: Each -1 to skill that you take reduces concentration time by 1 second to a minimum of zero seconds at which point activation is a free action, but you must still concentrate to move things with your mind.
• Slow and Steady: Each additional second of concentration before activating the ability up to 5 additional seconds, gives you a +1 to your skill roll. This is mutually exclusive with Quick.
• Skillful Strength: Choose a penalty from -1 down to whatever you're willing to risk. Square the penalty, and that's the increase to your Force Bond level for purpose of using TK. With big penalties you could increase your power level a lot. If you have very high skill, you can use this almost freely by taking a penalty that gets your effective skill down to 16 (since 17 and 18 are automatic failures).
• Willful Strength: Choose a Fatigue Point cost from 1 to whatever you're willing to spend. Double that number and then square it, and that's the increase to your Force Bond level for purpose of using TK. By tiring yourself out faster you increase your power level a lot. Spending 5 fatigue would increase your effective Force Bond level by 100.
• Efficient: If the weight you are moving is below your ideal weight, you can take a -2 penalty to skill to reduce fatigue cost by 1.
• Multiple: Each -1 to skill doubles the number of objects you can target at once. You must still be able to perceive all of the objects you are targeting, and the total weight of the objects is what you use to determine your limits and speed.

Special Cases

• Moving biological beings with a Will score: You can affect this type of target, but if it doesn't want you to, it gets a Will roll with a +6 bonus (even average people will only fail on a critical failure). And because of Star Wars odd logic and inconsistency, you can only use your TK on this type of target in a way that bolsters what they can already accomplish with physical effort. So, you cannot make someone fly, but you could help them hang on to a ledge and lift them back onto the stable surface, or slow their fall (suggesting that you are bolstering their body to handle the forces of landing).
• Moving something worn by a biological being with a Will score: Treat it exactly like you are trying to move the biological being with a Will score. They get their Will roll to resist with the normal +6 bonus.
• Taking something from a biological being with a Will score: If this type of target is holding something that you want to take from them, you can make your TK effort as normal, but the target gets a Dodge defense roll, representing them reacting fast enough to tighten their grip. If they fail their dodge, you pull the item out of their grip and can move it as normal for your TK. If they succeed, your attempt fails, and any further attempt during this encounter allows the biological being with a Will score to resist with the Will +6 roll. Consider that the average person has a dodge score of 8 though, and this is actually a reasonable option for disarming foes. Especially if you need to disarm a large group all at once and you use the Multiple option. Each target would get their own dodge roll.

Specialized Telekinesis Skills

There are a number of ways Telekinesis is used in the movies and other media that don't fall exactly into the descriptions you see above. Things like Darth Vader choking someone to death or using it to move really fast (the basic skill of Telekinesis is limited to 5 yards per second which isn't that fast). For those situations, there are skills that use Telekinesis as a prerequisite. you can find them all with their specific rules in the Force document, but I'll list them here so you can look to see if what you're curious about is covered by one of those...

• Telekinetic Bolster: This is the ability to let the Force improve some of your physical abilities, like how hard you hit, how accurate you are, how quickly you act, and even how tough you are for a little while.
• Telekinetic Choke: This is Darth Vader's signature move of preventing someone from breathing by squeezing their throat.
• Telekinetic Crush: Similar to Choke, but applicable to anything that doesn't have a Will score or isn't biological. You can use this skill to rend doors from their hinges, crush blasters, or even crush droids. This is the skill for doing damage directly with TK to this type of target.
• Telekinetic Movement: This is similar to Bolster, but applies specifically to how you move. You can increase your Step distance, your speed with running, your jump distance, or even imbue a friend with this ability so they can move really well for a while too.
• Telekinetic Push: This is the shove you see so often in the prequel movies. It's not as easy to resist so it can be useful.
• Telekinetic Strike: This is how you can use telekinesis to throw something hard and fast enough to do damage. It allows you to break the 5 yards per seoncd speed limit so you can do damage. You can also use this to bring an object to you very quickly since the origin point doesn't have to be yourself. If you want to pull someone's blaster into your hand they're more than 5 yards away, you can use this skill to get things to your hand much faster. And, you can use the ability to throw your lightsaber at a target with bolstered damage from your TK.
• Telekinetic Wield: This is the ability to wield weapons with telekinesis. You can have multiple weapons floating at arm's reach and as long as they are ready, you can use any one of them that you want on your turn. This means you don't have to drop weapons and draw another one to use a different weapon. And you can still have weapons in hand. And if you spent points on Extra Attacks, or are using an All-Out Attack for extra attacks, you can use more than one of the weapons at once. Look up Darth Traya if you want to see a canon character that uses this with three lightsabers. This skill can be awesome if you put some points into it.