Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
In your Years of Gaming, How many Psionic Characters did you See played
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 7870701" data-attributes="member: 6777737"><p>OD&D (Eldritch Wizardry): Never played this supplement. Barely played OD&D at all.</p><p></p><p>Basic D&D: Played a few campaigns. I don't ever remember someone playing a Mystic. We were all about Fighters, Elves, Dwarves, Magic-Users, and (for some reason) Thieves.</p><p></p><p>1e: Played exactly one campaign where the DM had the PCs roll for psionics. Exactly one character had a psionic ability. All I remember is that he knew <em>disintegrate </em>but could never actually use it somehow? It almost never came up. We also had exactly one encounter where the DM used the psionic combat rule that there was 1 round of psi combat for every segment of initiative (i.e., 10 rounds of psionic combat per normal round). We made it a few segments into the encounter and before anyone could act physically the psionic character had already stunned or killed several creatures. That rule got thrown in the trash where it belongs. I'm told there's supposed to be stuff in the DMG to prevent this -- that is, largely to prevent <em>the PCs</em> from doing it -- but I don't know if how we played was in line with that or not.</p><p></p><p>2e: Played a Dark Sun campaign. No actual psionicists, but everyone had the minor talents. I don't remember it coming up very often, largely because people were terrified of running out of power points and were confused by psionic combat.</p><p></p><p>3e: One player tried a psionic warrior for one campaign, but the awful medium BAB caused him to retire the character after a few sessions. Don't remember any psions.</p><p></p><p>4e: Pretty sure we had a 4e Dark Sun campaign with multiple psionic characters (and not just monks). However, calling this "psionics" is being extremely liberal to the term because all the crunch was basically identical to any other power source. 4e has psionics in the same way that Magic: The Gathering has psionics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bacon Bits, post: 7870701, member: 6777737"] OD&D (Eldritch Wizardry): Never played this supplement. Barely played OD&D at all. Basic D&D: Played a few campaigns. I don't ever remember someone playing a Mystic. We were all about Fighters, Elves, Dwarves, Magic-Users, and (for some reason) Thieves. 1e: Played exactly one campaign where the DM had the PCs roll for psionics. Exactly one character had a psionic ability. All I remember is that he knew [I]disintegrate [/I]but could never actually use it somehow? It almost never came up. We also had exactly one encounter where the DM used the psionic combat rule that there was 1 round of psi combat for every segment of initiative (i.e., 10 rounds of psionic combat per normal round). We made it a few segments into the encounter and before anyone could act physically the psionic character had already stunned or killed several creatures. That rule got thrown in the trash where it belongs. I'm told there's supposed to be stuff in the DMG to prevent this -- that is, largely to prevent [I]the PCs[/I] from doing it -- but I don't know if how we played was in line with that or not. 2e: Played a Dark Sun campaign. No actual psionicists, but everyone had the minor talents. I don't remember it coming up very often, largely because people were terrified of running out of power points and were confused by psionic combat. 3e: One player tried a psionic warrior for one campaign, but the awful medium BAB caused him to retire the character after a few sessions. Don't remember any psions. 4e: Pretty sure we had a 4e Dark Sun campaign with multiple psionic characters (and not just monks). However, calling this "psionics" is being extremely liberal to the term because all the crunch was basically identical to any other power source. 4e has psionics in the same way that Magic: The Gathering has psionics. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
In your Years of Gaming, How many Psionic Characters did you See played
Top