Here are some new Psionic skills for you. A couple of basic ones, and some powerful ones.
Give them a shot!
New PSI Skills
Give them a shot!
New PSI Skills
MGT Only: New PSI Skills
- Thread starter Spinward Scout
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It's a tough one. You have to have very high PSI points and/or a PSI Battery to do it.
After reading your write up, I was thinking if a being advances far enough with Awareness to unlock Longevity, the chances for an Epic failure are you auto fail the next year check, regular failure you age normally, success is you don't age, and Epic success is that you rejuvenate 1 year younger if you've failed your aging roll, until eventually over a few years, you are in your prime.
Basically your aging slows down, eventually stopping, then reversing until you are back in your prime, if you survive to reach that point.
I've been doing some thinking on this after reading about Grandfather in Aliens 5: Droyne, and it's introduction of a Longevity Skill.
Basically your aging slows down, eventually stopping, then reversing until you are back in your prime, if you survive to reach that point.
I've been doing some thinking on this after reading about Grandfather in Aliens 5: Droyne, and it's introduction of a Longevity Skill.
That sounds interesting. I really need to get the Zhodani and Droyne Alien books.
It is a 2 part skill. The first part reduces your Psi score by the amount of ability reduction from aging and is permanent. If you Psi score is high enough, you stop aging without affecting your Psi score.
I had previously read it as you go through the first part and in time reach the second part. But if you take too long, your Psi will be too low to make use of the second part. Reading it again, I see that if your Psi score is high enough, you stop aging at the cost of your Psi score, and if it's higher, you stop aging with no cost.
The text says it's a Droyne specific ability, like Invisibility, but if it's hard to get, most Psionic users might not know of the ability, and the few who do might not realize they are aging slower. I mean, why meditate for an ability no one knows exists?
I kind of like the idea of making a skill check, so that it's more like the time you spend meditating or training affects your aging slowly instead of immediately.
I had previously read it as you go through the first part and in time reach the second part. But if you take too long, your Psi will be too low to make use of the second part. Reading it again, I see that if your Psi score is high enough, you stop aging at the cost of your Psi score, and if it's higher, you stop aging with no cost.
The text says it's a Droyne specific ability, like Invisibility, but if it's hard to get, most Psionic users might not know of the ability, and the few who do might not realize they are aging slower. I mean, why meditate for an ability no one knows exists?
I kind of like the idea of making a skill check, so that it's more like the time you spend meditating or training affects your aging slowly instead of immediately.
But if you are paying the cost, you'd know you were doing it, I think.
That's good. I didn't put that much thought into it.
Commander Truestar
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Thank you @Spinward Scout for posting your work.
My approach to PSI is a bit taken from the old D&D Mana point system. Of course, I designed it in the early 1980's, just before enlisting.
Using that, the Psion player has more freedom to use minor powers while still having a reserve of PSI remaining for "big asks" when the fertilizer hits the rotating arboreal oscillator
Next, I consider new talents by asking:
1) Are they outside the realms of the basic Psi talents (Like Pyrokinesis), which should be considered a "Special"
2) Or are they something akin to existing talent....
For example: "Mind Blast" is akin to Telepathy-Assault. Only, instead of a telepathic duel resulting in damage or death, this is the ability to draw on
one's Pisonic energy, pull it into a "mental ball" and blast a specific target.
Drawbacks would be the concentration needed "before the blast" in order to prepare for the attack
Also, releasing the blast also leads to a 3D6 roll against the attacker's PSI power, to see if the attacker collapses?
I have rated the ability for "Level 3": Confuse, "Level 6": Harm and "Level 9": Kill type attacks which use PSI based on which type of attack is made?
So, each new talent I have added to my PSI rules is vetted as above.
I've also mined series such as MZB's "Darkover" books for ideas on what talents might exist
My approach to PSI is a bit taken from the old D&D Mana point system. Of course, I designed it in the early 1980's, just before enlisting.
Using that, the Psion player has more freedom to use minor powers while still having a reserve of PSI remaining for "big asks" when the fertilizer hits the rotating arboreal oscillator
Next, I consider new talents by asking:
1) Are they outside the realms of the basic Psi talents (Like Pyrokinesis), which should be considered a "Special"
2) Or are they something akin to existing talent....
For example: "Mind Blast" is akin to Telepathy-Assault. Only, instead of a telepathic duel resulting in damage or death, this is the ability to draw on
one's Pisonic energy, pull it into a "mental ball" and blast a specific target.
Drawbacks would be the concentration needed "before the blast" in order to prepare for the attack
Also, releasing the blast also leads to a 3D6 roll against the attacker's PSI power, to see if the attacker collapses?
I have rated the ability for "Level 3": Confuse, "Level 6": Harm and "Level 9": Kill type attacks which use PSI based on which type of attack is made?
So, each new talent I have added to my PSI rules is vetted as above.
I've also mined series such as MZB's "Darkover" books for ideas on what talents might exist
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Commander Truestar
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I have not....
Nor am I on Reddit...no time for it...LOL
But I will check the name and see what I find
Thank you
She did two different series. The 'Saga of Pliocene Exile' and 'Intervention and the Galactic Milieu trilogy'.
Both were excellent series on their own. And Intervention connects the two series.
Julian May also did the Trillium series of fantasy novels with Marion Zimmer Bradley.
