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<blockquote data-quote="Nobby-W" data-source="post: 8093028" data-attributes="member: 7017291">I was more thinking of designing exploitable loopholes out of the rules so you don't have to use lazy tropes like omnisicent psi-cop services to keep munchkin players in line. You could certainly have psi cops, or even just ordinary cops with psi shields.&nbsp; A psi spook service or psi branch, or maybe a Jedi-like order could also exist.&nbsp; The best treatment of this I've seen was the Telzey Amberdon stories, where there is a psi spook service that wants the protagonist to join.&nbsp; She's not antagonistic to them, but maintains an arm's-length relationship.The stories themselves were mostly written in the 1960s or 1970s, so they're a bit dated.&nbsp; They're nothing special but they are passably good space opera.&nbsp; However, they did a a fairly good job of working through the mcguffinite around a character with powerful psionic abilities, perhaps the best I've seen in any sci-fi novel.I just remembered another series - Chandler's John Grimes stories feature characters with psi abilities working as navigator/comms officer types.&nbsp; It also has one or two story lines about psi-capable critters, something which pops up in the Telzey Amberdon stories a couple of times as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nobby-W, post: 8093028, member: 7017291"] I was more thinking of designing exploitable loopholes out of the rules so you don't have to use lazy tropes like omnisicent psi-cop services to keep munchkin players in line. You could certainly have psi cops, or even just ordinary cops with psi shields. A psi spook service or psi branch, or maybe a Jedi-like order could also exist. The best treatment of this I've seen was the Telzey Amberdon stories, where there is a psi spook service that wants the protagonist to join. She's not antagonistic to them, but maintains an arm's-length relationship. The stories themselves were mostly written in the 1960s or 1970s, so they're a bit dated. They're nothing special but they are passably good space opera. However, they did a a fairly good job of working through the mcguffinite around a character with powerful psionic abilities, perhaps the best I've seen in any sci-fi novel. I just remembered another series - Chandler's John Grimes stories feature characters with psi abilities working as navigator/comms officer types. It also has one or two story lines about psi-capable critters, something which pops up in the Telzey Amberdon stories a couple of times as well. [/QUOTE]

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