More 'flavor' for your Psionics

[Spinward Scout]

Came up with a few ideas for Psionics to add some 'flavor' to the Psionic strength. Use or modify for YTU.

You can change the word 'Stage' to 'Class' if you like - I just used 'Stage' because it's used in TNE.

The chart below shows the different 'Stages' and the points required to be considered in that 'Stage'. Each 'Stage' is exponentially stronger (double) than the 'Stage' below it. You can use this as extra 'flavor' in a campaign. Example: Ref talking about an NPC - 'He's a Stage 4 Psion' or 'She's a Class III Psion'.

[U]Psionic Points[/U]
0.....................Latent Psion
1.....................Stage 1 Psion
2-3...................Stage 2 Psion (2 point range)
4-7...................Stage 3 Psion (4 point range)
8-15..................Stage 4 Psion (8 point range)
16+...................Stage 5 Psion (16 point range)
And so on...

Recovery of Psionic Points can be handled a bit different, too, getting easier to recover Psionic strength the more powerful the Psion is - the strength points are doubly recovered starting at half the time from the last 'Stage'.

Stage 1
Same as book

Stage 2
Recovering Psi Points:
1 point per half hour (2 per hour), beginning 90 minutes from last use

Stage 3
Recovering Psi Points:
1 point per 15 minutes (4 per hour), beginning 45 minutes from last use

Stage 4
Recovering Psi Points:
1 point per 7 minutes 30 seconds (8 per hour), beginning 22 minutes 30 seconds from last use

Stage 5
Recovering Psi Points:
1 point per 3 minutes 45 seconds (16 per hour), beginning 11 minutes 15 seconds from last use

This last chart is a bit more of a breakdown of the different 'Stages'. Tried to go for a MegaTraveller feel, but I didn't finish that too well.

0 Latent
1 Stage 1
2 Lower Stage 2
3 Upper Stage 2
4 Lower Stage 3
5 Lower Average Stage 3
6 Upper Average Stage 3
7 Upper Stage 3
8 Lower Stage 4
9
A
B Lower Average Stage 4
C Upper Average Stage 4
D
E
F Upper Stage 4
G+ Stage 5

Just some ideas I came up with to add some 'flavor'. Based a little bit on the idea in the Marvel X-Men comic of the different 'Class' of mutant strength. Can be used with the chart on the bottom left side of page 4 in Mongoose's Book 4: Psion.

What kind of Psionic 'flavor' have you come up with IYTU?

SS

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Mine is all novel and stuff.

I favor them.

I let them be used and abused with appropriate consequences for individual actions. Plus there have been a several Imperiums in MATU, a few have used Psionics for good, some for ill and some just to maintain the status quo.

Radical, I know, but that's just how I roll. :devil:

Laterness,
Magnus.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Some more flavor.

If you are a fan of the Julian May Galactic Milieu novels*, you can break down the chart like this:

[U]Psionic Points[/U]
0.....................Latent
1.....................Sub-Operant
2-3...................Operant (2 point range)
4-7...................Master Metapsychic (4 point range)
8-15..................Grand Master Metapsychic (8 point range)
16+...................Paramount Grand Master Metapsychic (16 point range)

* The Galactic Milieu novels are: Intervention (two books in one), Jack the Bodiless, Diamond Mask, and Magnificat.

There's also a second series called the Saga of Pliocene Exile with the Books: The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Non-Born King, and The Adversary, but Metapsychic Power is handled differently in that series.

 

[mike wightman]

Just to be pedantic - the saga of the exiles was the first series, she then wrote Intervention which was split in two for the American audience and finally we got the trilogy

Oh - and found an old thread that ties in http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=4960

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Sweet!

More folks who have read the Julian May stuff. Awesome. Now off to read this other thread that Mike just posted.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Very Nice!

 

[HiverLord]

They sound like interesting novels. I'm at a library now... guess I'll have to find them!
Thanks.