Alternate Psionics System for Modern/Future?

[TerraDave]

A recap (or complete reprinting, I forget) of the Psychic's Handbook appears in the appendix of their Advanced Player's Manual.

I find this thread.

I think I have something to add.

I don't.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

How "Low Psi" do you want to go?

If you wanted, you could pick a few nifty, classic Psi Powers and make them into Feats that grant a number of uses per day based on fatigue or psi-points. Basing each on Feats makes them "expensive," keeping them from dominating the game.

For example, the Soulknife's Psi-Blade would be the result of taking the appropriate feat, and the PC would have the ability to manifest the blade based on whether he had energy to power it.

Similarly, other classics like Telepathy and TK could be boiled down to 3 cascading feats, Low, Moderate, and Powerful...

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Have you looked at Psionically Modern?

 

[Derro]

If you can't get a hold of the Psychic's Handbook, there's also the old Shadowforce Archer supplements for Spycraft first edition - the core book had another skills n feats psionics ruleset, which you could use outside of the classes included in the system. The supplements added weirder psychic powers if you want to go beyond the basics, too. Definately different from the DnD style psionic powers if you're looking to go that route.

I really enjoyed this system. It's the only system I've ever used for modern games. If you can find any of the splats almost all of them have something useful or unique to add. The Archer Foundation splat book had a system for the Fringe, a sort of twilight zone or ethereal plane that added a great element of occult underground.

There are three base classes tied to the system but they can be removed relatively painlessly. In this way you can add the psionics system without the class features that rely on concepts particular to Spycraft. Or mine the classes for features you like.

I see someone also mentioned Psionically Modern. It's free and that's good. It integrates with d20 Modern seamlessly which is also nice. It's not skills-and-feats which might not suite your needs. You can integrate any D&D psionic stuff with it pretty easily too.