3PP Release (3rd Party Book Release) Paranormal Power: A Psionics Option for 5e and A5e, written by Steampunkette!

[Cadence]

I'm supposed to be doing work!?!?! How can work possibly compete against a new .pdf of psionic hotness!

 

[dave2008]

Looking good so far and I am ashamed to admit the AI art really works for this book (mostly).

@Steampunkette Are you open to comments / feedback? Can you still make changes before you go to print?

 

[Steampunkette]

Looking good so far and I am ashamed to admit the AI art really works for this book (mostly).

@Steampunkette Are you open to comments / feedback? Can you still make changes before you go to print?

Comments and feedback are welcome, but the print is already ready to go as soon as the surveys are filled out. I'm locked in, there, unless we wanna do another week or two of pre-media.

 

[dave2008]

Comments and feedback are welcome, but the print is already ready to go as soon as the surveys are filled out. I'm locked in, there, unless we wanna do another week or two of pre-media.

Up to you of course, I noticed a few things and I imagine once you get 700 pairs of eyes on it they will notice a few more. I'm not getting a hardcopy so I can't speak for those people, but if I was I would be happy wait, despite being eager to get their hands on the product.

 

[Steampunkette]

Up to you of course, I noticed a few things and I imagine once you get 700 pairs of eyes on it they will notice a few more. I'm not getting a hardcopy so I can't speak for those people, but if I was I would be happy wait, despite being eager to get their hands on the product.

What'd you run into? I'm keeping a changelog for updates since I can always revise the PDF further.

 

[Gnome Rager]

It's downloading, super excited

 

[dave2008]

What'd you run into? I'm keeping a changelog for updates since I can always revise the PDF further.

What I noticed, as I am a visual person, is a format issue IMO. Some spell titles are cut off oddly/inconveniently, see below in the spoiler.

The left one is annoying, but it is on the same page. However the right one I have to go to the next page to get the spell description. I checked quickly and it looked like there was room to correct both without much issue - but I could be wrong.

Spoiler: PP page 23

 

[dave2008]

Also, monsters don't have their bloodied HP listed which is typical for A5e monsters. Sorry to nitpick and it works fine without that - it just jumped out to me immediately. Probably because I spent a bit of time updated my 200+ monsters on these forums to include the bloodied hit points!

 

[Steampunkette]

Sadly, @dave2008, there's no way to fix the powers, there, to make them all fit the page correctly. I tried for a while before letting it flow like that. The best I could've done is drop the Telepath image to the next page somewhere to make room, but Homebrewery didn't like that and I wound up pushing 2 lines past the page end. I could cut out a few sentences, maybe, but the wording is pretty tight in there, unfortunately.

And yeah, I did miss out on the bloodied values... foo.

 

[dave2008]

Sadly, @dave2008, there's no way to fix the powers, there, to make them all fit the page correctly. I tried for a while before letting it flow like that. The best I could've done is drop the Telepath image to the next page somewhere to make room, but Homebrewery didn't like that and I wound up pushing 2 lines past the page end. I could cut out a few sentences, maybe, but the wording is pretty tight in there, unfortunately.

And yeah, I did miss out on the bloodied values... foo.

I'm not very familiar with Homebrewery, but I remember avoiding it for reasons like this when I was trying to make something I hoped to publish. I used a word template instead. Of course, maybe I would have finished it had I used HB!

 

[dave2008]

And yeah, I did miss out on the bloodied values... foo.

That could be an HB issue too? I know some online statblock tools do not allow you to add the bloodied value.

 

[dave2008]

PS - It is great in general and a lot larger than I expected. I kept scrolling down and down to scan it quickly and it took longer than I anticipated! Again, it looks great - just need to get into the details, but probably not till this weekend - my lunch can't last forever!

 

[lichmaster]

Congratulations for this fantastic result! Really happy to see the A5E ecosystem grow both from official and third party contributions! Now I'll have some reading to do!!!

 

[W'rkncacnter]

liking this so far, but uh...the psychic warrior archetype for the esper doesn't gain exertion. how are they supposed to use their maneuvers?

 

[Steampunkette]

liking this so far, but uh...the psychic warrior archetype for the esper doesn't gain exertion. how are they supposed to use their maneuvers?

Entirely an oversight on my part. They gain exertion in the same manner as any other martial type. I'll have to make an errata for this document.

 

[WanderingMystic]

So far a few things I have noticed
1: no Starting gold just the list of a few kits to choose from.
2: pg 12 only list 3 archetypes as options not all 5
3: it is impossible for the psychic warrior archetypes to get maneuvers from each teir since they learn 2 tier and 3 tier between getting their next maunver.
4: Tiers of powers is not 3xplan3d anywhere. Nothing says that you can learn certain tiers at certain levels
5: of the I belive 2 powers that have prerequisites they are formated differently

 

[WanderingMystic]

Comments and feedback are welcome, but the print is already ready to go as soon as the surveys are filled out. I'm locked in, there, unless we wanna do another week or two of pre-media.

Personally I would always rather wait an extra week or two to get a product that feels final. One of the reasons I love Pinnacle is that they alow everyone to look through the pdf and give feed back before going to print.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Personally I would always rather wait an extra week or two to get a product that feels final. One of the reasons I love Pinnacle is that they alow everyone to look through the pdf and give feed back before going to print.

I agree, if at all possible @Steampunkette I would hold off on printing and get some of these items corrected. An immediate errata document is not the best look.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I will wait for corrected version

 

[zen_cat]

I'd also echo the suggestion to spend a week or two getting feedback on the PDF before printing. I have a range of things I'd like to ask about, and I'm sure many of them could be resolved with a simple word tweak or two.