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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9609233" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Ah, something I should have mentioned in my first post, and this isn't an attack on people who have mentioned or like these, but:NO PSIONIC COMBAT (Attack/Defense Modes): these were the thing I disliked the most about early Psionics.  So you could enter this special "mind combat" with another Psion (even if you weren't, strictly, a Telepath, which makes little real sense), dueling it out mentally.  That's cool and all, but these would basically never come up if you were facing normal foes, so it was this entire subsystem that a lot of times, sat around and did nothing of value.  In 2e, especially, you could try to engage a non-psionic in combat, but their default "non-psionic" brain presented excellent defenses against most attack modes, making it a usually fruitless endeavor.  And even "kind of psychic" characters like Wild Talents, were usually bereft of any Defense Modes, making them especially vulnerable to Psionic Combat (YMMV if you thought this was a good or a bad thing, personally, the time I got mind crushed for daring to have a pitiful power like Combat Mind that increased my initiative rolls was enough to make me never again want a Wild Talent, lol).For something like this to work, you'd have to have a lot of people with Psionics around to make the juice worth the squeeze.</blockquote>