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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cincinnati reds" data-source="post: 2811210" data-attributes="member: 21888">Psionics are the only type of power in this campaign, yeah. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The idea I'm trying to model with this rule is "psions have great power, but eventually they all go mad." I don't want low-level psions to worry about going mad, but as they gain greater access and realization to what psionics actually are and where they come from (heh-heh), they start becoming unhinged. Sorta like a psion can handle the low-level stuff, even if he is a low-level PC, without breaking much of a sweat, but once he gains greater power, that power starts breaking his mind.A Will save seems like the right place to begin with this. Perhaps something like powers of 4th level or higher require the Will save at DC10+power level*1.5? I'm not very good at math, unfortunately - would that curve so that higher-level powers are exponentially more dangerous to use? As for a damage track, perhaps giving the psion a number of Sanity Points equal to his CHR (I use CHR for Will modifiers and WIS for Init modifiers) and when the SP hits zero he permanently loses a point of CHR but then he regains SP equal to his new CHR?Does that model well? I know it's inelegant as hell. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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