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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9747971" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Oh, psionics! Here's the thing. Almost everyone I knew tried at some point to use them. Because ... psionics are cool. And the terms used? Oh, SO COOL!Ego whip? Id insinuation? Psychic crush?YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME? I HAVE INTELLECT FORTRESS!!!!!Heck, Molecular Agitation?Olaf the Slightly Dumb: Hey, what are you doing?Bester: I'm using molecular agitation.Olaf: Huh. Cool. So you're making something angry. But ... what are molecules?Bester: ....I don't know. I think they have something to do with the bodily humors?The idea was so awesome! Except, OMG, psionics did not work. They didn't work because they were ridiculous to get (the whole Gygaxian "you have to be this awesome to be even more awesome" chance to get them). They were ridiculous because they were nearly impossible to use correctly in "psionic combat." And they were ridiculous because they weren't integrated into the rest of the game- nothing else, really, referred to psionics in the game with very few exceptions, so they weren't integrated at all.So every table I knew tried 'em once, and then got rid of them. Or (like I did) designed an entirely different system.</blockquote>