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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7947423" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>Totally, that was exactly my intent. I wanted something that would feel at home in a campaign using the dal quor of Eberron, psionics of Athas, mind flayers & gith, or drawing on the Cthulu mythos.</p><p></p><p>There might be a few instances where a psionic power should use an existing spell (e.g. Remote Viewing is basically identical to the <em>Scrying </em>spell), but when I went back through Gary Gygax & Brian Blume's original presentation of psionics in OD&D they only rarely used "see such-and-such spell", instead writing up each psionic power as its own thing. There were psionic powers like levitation and enlarge/reduce that, through out modern lens, seem to parallel 5e spells, but more often they were weird stuff like Cell Adjustment or Probability Travel. I tried to take the best from their approach, while jettisoning the complicated psionic matrices.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks Dave! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Maybe, yeah, I'll definitely consider it.</p><p></p><p>I tend to be hesitant about putting un-playtested content onto the DM's Guild. I know the majority of stuff isn't playtested, but I would rather not add to that "static." As you can see, my writeup of psionic powers has a lot more in common with Gary's terse writing from back when psionics was introduced... Saying "Retrospection: During a long rest you can meditate with another creature and help it (or yourself) to regain lost memories or review old memories; the DM may call for a check" might be fine at my game table, but it's more loosey-goosey than what most players expect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7947423, member: 20323"] Totally, that was exactly my intent. I wanted something that would feel at home in a campaign using the dal quor of Eberron, psionics of Athas, mind flayers & gith, or drawing on the Cthulu mythos. There might be a few instances where a psionic power should use an existing spell (e.g. Remote Viewing is basically identical to the [I]Scrying [/I]spell), but when I went back through Gary Gygax & Brian Blume's original presentation of psionics in OD&D they only rarely used "see such-and-such spell", instead writing up each psionic power as its own thing. There were psionic powers like levitation and enlarge/reduce that, through out modern lens, seem to parallel 5e spells, but more often they were weird stuff like Cell Adjustment or Probability Travel. I tried to take the best from their approach, while jettisoning the complicated psionic matrices. Thanks Dave! :) Maybe, yeah, I'll definitely consider it. I tend to be hesitant about putting un-playtested content onto the DM's Guild. I know the majority of stuff isn't playtested, but I would rather not add to that "static." As you can see, my writeup of psionic powers has a lot more in common with Gary's terse writing from back when psionics was introduced... Saying "Retrospection: During a long rest you can meditate with another creature and help it (or yourself) to regain lost memories or review old memories; the DM may call for a check" might be fine at my game table, but it's more loosey-goosey than what most players expect. [/QUOTE]
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