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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laslo Tremaine" data-source="post: 1383949" data-attributes="member: 330">I've been pretty damn impressed by the Psychic's Handbook.I picked it up a few days ago, and have been reading through it fairly thoroughly.  I think it would make a fine basis for a d20 Modern Psychic campaign.  It's really a shame that they dropped the defense progression on the d20 Modern advanced class though...One of the great things about the system is how wide ranging it is.  You could easily have a group of psychics who all had fairly independant abilities.  One could be a telepath, one could be a telekinetic, one could be a teleporter, one could be a clairvoyant, one could be a physical adept, etc, etc.  These are not classes mind you (there is just one Psychic class), but ways that you can customise that class.  One thing to keep in mind is that pretty much every psychic ability is a Skill with a Feat requirement.  For example, there is a Psychokinesis Feat, once you have taken it, you can start buying a number of skills based off of it (such as Telekinesis, Telekinetic Blast, Telekinetic Shield, Pyrokenisis, Cyberkinese, etc).The Pschic class gets 6+INT bonus in skill points, so your average psychic character will have 4-7 actual psychic skills (which, with the number of options, can get used up pretty qucik).  This pretty much forces the Psychic to focus on the few skills that they really want.Like I said, I'm pretty happy with it on paper, I have yet to see how it would work in play.p.s. the Psychic Grappling rules seem pretty cool too...</blockquote>

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