Expanded Psionics: Buying?

[Kahuna Burger]

Have you checked out Green Ronin's Psychic's Handbook? It is an excellent product with a different (and. IMO, much better) feel.

it has been recomended to me, but they didn't have it in stock when I went by the gaming store, so I bought a copy of fudge instead...

kahuna burger

 

[Remathilis]

bought it, love it, want some more of it.

Too bad our group is knee deep in star wars right now. :\

 

[Robbert Raets]

Cool indeed. I'm really liking the Kalashtar. They have some great role-playing potential and their +1 PP per character level is very nice.

Come on June! You'll find me wallowing in Eberronian goodness.

Y'know, if the Inspired are all like, Trill-like, I'm playin' one.

 

[Driddle]

From the recently posted Basalt Throne review, final comments: "There are a couple of glaring typos (such as printing the Deja Vu power twice)..."

... printing the Deja Vu power twice ...

 

[I'm A Banana]

From that same review:

All psions have to take a Discipline, which determines the 1 ability score they need to have a good rating in.

Someone, tell me this is true, and I'll go give Mr. Cordell a big honkin' man-hug.

 

[sjmiller]

I will not be purchasing this book. I am also one of those who feels that psionics has no place in a fantasy setting. It just feels wrong to me. I guess that if it were the only "magic" system in the game it might be different, but it's not.

If I were running an SF game, then I would I no problem with it.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Y'know, if the Inspired are all like, Trill-like, I'm playin' one.

Kieth said that the inspired was originally going to be a playable race, but they were too powerful. So, they invented the kalashtar to fill the role. Inspired are nearly impossible to kill. If their body is destroyed, their quori soul returns to its original body in Dal quor, the Region of Dreams.

Here is a little something that might inspire some Eberronian DMs:

The Origins of the Elan

About 800 years ago, a group of kalashtar managed to capture a Inspired who had been very successful in hunting and slaying several of their kind.

When the kalashtar finally captured the killer, they were at odds with how to deal with him. Most simply wanted his death, while a few others, those who had lost loved ones to the Inspired's terrible wrath, favored a punishment worse than death.

One of these vengeful kalashtar, Sethritari, was a powerful telepath who had been doing studies for most of her life on the nature of the kalashtar and their origins. It was she that provided the means by which the inspired murderer would be punished.

Using a variation of the same sort of psionic fusion that created the first kalashtar, Sethritari bound the Inspired into the body of Baloc Elan, a human whose daughter had been one of the Inspired's victims.

The Inspired's quori spirit was made one with Baloc's flesh and they arose as a new creature, later called an Elan in honor of the first of their kind. Baloc's human metabolism was replaced with pure psychic energy, the quori soul providing a source of psionic power that Baloc soon realized he could manifest in different ways. In addition, part of the bonding process removed Beloc's need to sleep. The quori spirit's energies rejuvenated his body, allowing him to escape the dangers of dreaming and removing any chance of the spirit escaping back into Dal Quor. The psionic energy that coursed through his body gave him other benefits as well, such as the abilities to telekinetically deflect a strike just before it could wound him, the ability to reinforce his body against disease or poison, foresee a moment into the future, or raise an instinctual psychic defense.

While Beloc benefited from the fusion process, the quori soul imprisoned within Beloc's flesh was broken and helpless. While fully aware of everything his once human host experienced, the Inspired was cursed to forever be a mere spectator, its own energies fueling the weapon used to strike at its own kind.

As he was meant to, Baloc used his newfound powers as a weapon against the Inspired, tracking them across Khorvaire and eliminating them. His wrath meant the destruction of dozens of Inspired.

When his understanding of the psionic arts was sufficient, Sethritari taught Beloc the means to create more of his kind. With this newfound knowledge, Beloc quickly changed his tactics. He no longer wanted to destroy the Inspired he found, but to capture them. Thus was born the race of elan. With the help of the kalashtar, Beloc recruited several humans to be willing hosts for quori souls. In time, these recruits where entrusted with the secret of the elan's creation and set about creating others.

To this day, the elan work in secret. The immortality granted by the quori spirit has allowed Beloc Elan to be a guiding hand for his race for almost a millennia. The elan's only transform those humans who actively seek them out, and only then if they pass their strict requirements.

While the elan were created to be a weapon against the Inspired, recent times have led to some groups with other interests. Though there are still groups of elan who actively fight against the Inspired, there are also groups who undergo the change simply to expand their psionic potential.

 

[Piratecat]

From that same review:


Someone, tell me this is true, and I'll go give Mr. Cordell a big honkin' man-hug.

That one ability score is intelligence, for all psions. The review has a couple of mistakes in it, along with a lot of typos, but it's mostly accurate. I don't think he got the deja vu joke, though.

Ashrem, the origin of the elan is incredibly cool. I realy like it.

 

[I'm A Banana]

That one ability score is intelligence, for all psions.

Ah, well, screw it then, no hug for Bruce.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Ashrem, the origin of the elan is incredibly cool. I realy like it.

Thanks P-kitty
I'm pretty happy with it, for now at least, until I know a little more about Eberron, Dal quor and the Inspired. I hate not having a name for the first Inspired captured, but I don't yet know any of their naming conventions.

The elan's description in the XPH really worked for me. Love those guys.