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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9670234" data-attributes="member: 18">Blue Rose does it by having a whole bunch of &quot;Arcana&quot;, which can be anything from your body counting as a magic weapon to telepathy to various kinds of -kinesis (all call &quot;X shaping&quot;), many of them involving you making tests to do stuff rather than automatically succeeding like D&amp;D does out of combat, and with probably over 90% of them fitting comfortably in what D&amp;D has traditionally called &quot;psionics&quot;.(I can't entirely recommend Blue Rose overall because whilst it's a cool setting, I personally feel like it's rather dated and fiddly. It originates in 2005 and even the 2020 version, which was updated I think in 2023 feels like a pre-2010 kind of RPG.)Another recently popular fantasy setting apart from Hobb's which uses psionic-style magic is the better known Shadow &amp; Bone/Grishaverse one, note (by Leigh Bardugo). In fact, the Grishaverse makes an explicit split between psionic-style magic, sometimes called &quot;The Small Science&quot; (of which most people only know one type - like say pyrokinesis or biokinesis, though a few can use more than one - and they do generally take a scientific-leaning approach to the powers) and true miraculous reality-altering magic, which is seen as a terrifying abomination. Bardugo has entirely different approaches to magic in some of her other works, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9670234, member: 18"] Blue Rose does it by having a whole bunch of "Arcana", which can be anything from your body counting as a magic weapon to telepathy to various kinds of -kinesis (all call "X shaping"), many of them involving you making tests to do stuff rather than automatically succeeding like D&D does out of combat, and with probably over 90% of them fitting comfortably in what D&D has traditionally called "psionics". (I can't entirely recommend Blue Rose overall because whilst it's a cool setting, I personally feel like it's rather dated and fiddly. It originates in 2005 and even the 2020 version, which was updated I think in 2023 feels like a pre-2010 kind of RPG.) Another recently popular fantasy setting apart from Hobb's which uses psionic-style magic is the better known Shadow & Bone/Grishaverse one, note (by Leigh Bardugo). In fact, the Grishaverse makes an explicit split between psionic-style magic, sometimes called "The Small Science" (of which most people only know one type - like say pyrokinesis or biokinesis, though a few can use more than one - and they do generally take a scientific-leaning approach to the powers) and true miraculous reality-altering magic, which is seen as a terrifying abomination. Bardugo has entirely different approaches to magic in some of her other works, too. [/QUOTE]

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