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<blockquote data-quote="Cyan Wisp" data-source="post: 6622608" data-attributes="member: 38623">I have to say, Morlock, you certainly are an affable chap. It seems like we are all trying to dissuade you from your goal! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />Good catch on the Jedi-as-psion. How could I overlook that. Out of interest, did you ever encounter 2e D&amp;D psionics? Now that was a unique system.So, you are looking to make magic into less of a chant-y, gesture-y, component-y discipline. I can fully understand that. It always seemed a little weird for sorcerers, for example, to have all these innate powers and yet they still needed to have bits of fluff and bat poop to do anything, along with precise magical incantations and gesticulations.I reckon Elderbrain's got the right idea - the sorcerer is the right design space for psions. Swap 'em out! It might even give them a bit more of a niche and cool flavour - take away components from their spells, or make them simple utterances of their will rather than proper spells, like &quot;Eat fire, gobbo scum!&quot; as the fireball launches or &quot;come, break bread with me&quot; or whatever for charm person, operating kind of like a Kiai shout in martial arts - the power is in the focus of the utterance, not the exact words; or gathering and releasing energy kind of gestures like those airbender guys rather than precise rune tracing and ley line plucking. Leave the ancient esoteric crap to the wizards and channel raw power, baby!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cyan Wisp, post: 6622608, member: 38623"] I have to say, Morlock, you certainly are an affable chap. It seems like we are all trying to dissuade you from your goal! :o Good catch on the Jedi-as-psion. How could I overlook that. Out of interest, did you ever encounter 2e D&D psionics? Now that was a unique system. So, you are looking to make magic into less of a chant-y, gesture-y, component-y discipline. I can fully understand that. It always seemed a little weird for sorcerers, for example, to have all these innate powers and yet they still needed to have bits of fluff and bat poop to do anything, along with precise magical incantations and gesticulations. I reckon Elderbrain's got the right idea - the sorcerer is the right design space for psions. Swap 'em out! It might even give them a bit more of a niche and cool flavour - take away components from their spells, or make them simple utterances of their will rather than proper spells, like "Eat fire, gobbo scum!" as the fireball launches or "come, break bread with me" or whatever for charm person, operating kind of like a Kiai shout in martial arts - the power is in the focus of the utterance, not the exact words; or gathering and releasing energy kind of gestures like those airbender guys rather than precise rune tracing and ley line plucking. Leave the ancient esoteric crap to the wizards and channel raw power, baby! [/QUOTE]

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