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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8661376" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>I should put this out there for full disclosure:</p><p></p><p>I'm working on my own Psionic class. Once it's done I'll probably release it in a small book and there might be a playtest of it in the coming weeks. So I definitely have some bias against Coville's class, here, because of competition.</p><p></p><p>But I want to stress that just from a design standpoint, without my own Esper in the mix... I just don't like what he's got, here. Discrete powers as spells, the incredibly narrow naming conventions (Everything is Psychic or Psionic, with one 'Mind', but where's Noetic or Ego or Id or Psyche? Cromulent words are ignored!), Strain-Based Metapsionics like a Sorcerer who hates themself, only two class abilities (Psionic Bastion, Shielded Mind) that don't focus on Strain...</p><p></p><p>And it's all pretty much built around using your discrete little powers and basically nothing else. No Psychometry (Unless you Strain yourself) so you can walk into a room and feel something -terrible- happened here, years ago. No Telepathy except as a Power that Strains...</p><p></p><p>It's kinda frustrating. There's so much more to being a Psionic character than having access to Psionic Powers. But the focus on trying to make Psions into "Wizards, but with a different casting mechanic" results in something that doesn't really -feel- like a Psychic character, to me.</p><p></p><p>Being a psychic character is more than bleeding from the nose because you're using your powers really hard. And the Talent doesn't seem to know that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8661376, member: 6796468"] I should put this out there for full disclosure: I'm working on my own Psionic class. Once it's done I'll probably release it in a small book and there might be a playtest of it in the coming weeks. So I definitely have some bias against Coville's class, here, because of competition. But I want to stress that just from a design standpoint, without my own Esper in the mix... I just don't like what he's got, here. Discrete powers as spells, the incredibly narrow naming conventions (Everything is Psychic or Psionic, with one 'Mind', but where's Noetic or Ego or Id or Psyche? Cromulent words are ignored!), Strain-Based Metapsionics like a Sorcerer who hates themself, only two class abilities (Psionic Bastion, Shielded Mind) that don't focus on Strain... And it's all pretty much built around using your discrete little powers and basically nothing else. No Psychometry (Unless you Strain yourself) so you can walk into a room and feel something -terrible- happened here, years ago. No Telepathy except as a Power that Strains... It's kinda frustrating. There's so much more to being a Psionic character than having access to Psionic Powers. But the focus on trying to make Psions into "Wizards, but with a different casting mechanic" results in something that doesn't really -feel- like a Psychic character, to me. Being a psychic character is more than bleeding from the nose because you're using your powers really hard. And the Talent doesn't seem to know that. [/QUOTE]
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