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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8927581" data-attributes="member: 6796468">1) I promised speed. That it would get to the printers ASAP and get shipped out fast once the Kickstarter was over. I don't wanna spend the next month trying to get things perfect and make 300 out of those 700 angry about not getting their product. God forbid my computer should burn out like the last one did and I should lose progress, again, and wind up months behind.2) I have ADHD. And I know if I hyperfocus on Paranormal Power I won't get Martial Artistry done or The Lands Beyond started. And the latter of those is meant to be an anthology with other people. 3) Getting it off my plate also allows me to focus in on other projects that have deadlines and burn through them.4) I can't please everyone. So discussion of mechanics and rehashing of how they "Should" work will be productive to a point... but will eventually, even fairly quickly, wind up bogged down in preferences. Which can end up in week long discussions that devolve.And it would be a month. Because it takes 3-5 days for the printers to do pre-media, then I -have- to order another Proof, which takes 2-4 weeks if I pay $40 worth of shipping. Even if we only discussed things 'til Monday, that's still maybe March before I get the Proof, and then 4-6 weeks after that, in April, people get the books I promised in late February/Early March.I basically tied my own hands out of the gate...Arcana with Psionics as an Expertise, yes. And I didn't give it to the Esper with the intent to highlight that some Espers aren't super-detailed into Psionics. That some of them are intuitive Espers rather than studied Espers, with Background providing Arcana, or not, to highlight different mindsets. If it were part of the class, almost every Esper would take it. Sort of Meta-gamey in design, I know... but it made sense to me and it still does.Psychic Focus requires concentration because Expertise on two skills is fairly powerful for an at-will constant ability, as is 15ft reach. Giving you a reason to drop concentration, expend your focus, or forgo other concentration effects based on the situation.Thymokinesis isn't meant to deal damage as a baseline effect, no. It's meant to manipulate energy in the environment, rather than use it as a weapon, out of the gate. It's kind of meant to be the "Carrie" power, rather than fireballs.New and interesting Noetics and Power combinations, as well as new disciplines and powers like precognition, are meant to be expansion territory in the future, yes. I tried to put a decent amount of "Second Sight" into the class and the Noetics to provide a baseline until further supplements can be written.</blockquote>

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