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Mike Mearls on D&D Psionics: Should Psionic Flavor Be Altered?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7674047" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>Ardent just seemed too much like "filling a hole" in the game than a good use of design space. Psionic Healars, OTOH, have all kinds of precedent. </p><p></p><p>As I mentioned before, the Empathic healer is an evocative concept- psychically transferring wounds from victim to healer, there healing himself. Now, there's all kinds of reasons why you wouldn't want to do this transfer at a 1:1 ratio, but I could definitely see a burn a HP for 1d6 of healing kind of thing.</p><p></p><p>I could also see psi healing "overclocking" the metabolism of a victim's body to accelerate healing.</p><p></p><p>More esoteric forms of Psionic healing might involve psionically petitioning for assistance from otherplanar beings cauterizing wounds via directed energy, or using force of mind to literally hold the patient together.</p><p></p><p>Looking further afield, manifester's might tap into the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone" target="_blank">Orgone</a> (a conceptual precursor to The Force) and- almost Defiler-like- directing life-energy from outside the victim's body into it, causing healing to occur. Of course, that energy has to come from somewhere... Which, BTW, would also lend itself to inclusion of Orgone accumulators (or something like them), one of the few kinds Psionic-themed physical foci I'd like to see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7674047, member: 19675"] Ardent just seemed too much like "filling a hole" in the game than a good use of design space. Psionic Healars, OTOH, have all kinds of precedent. As I mentioned before, the Empathic healer is an evocative concept- psychically transferring wounds from victim to healer, there healing himself. Now, there's all kinds of reasons why you wouldn't want to do this transfer at a 1:1 ratio, but I could definitely see a burn a HP for 1d6 of healing kind of thing. I could also see psi healing "overclocking" the metabolism of a victim's body to accelerate healing. More esoteric forms of Psionic healing might involve psionically petitioning for assistance from otherplanar beings cauterizing wounds via directed energy, or using force of mind to literally hold the patient together. Looking further afield, manifester's might tap into the [URL="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone"]Orgone[/URL] (a conceptual precursor to The Force) and- almost Defiler-like- directing life-energy from outside the victim's body into it, causing healing to occur. Of course, that energy has to come from somewhere... Which, BTW, would also lend itself to inclusion of Orgone accumulators (or something like them), one of the few kinds Psionic-themed physical foci I'd like to see. [/QUOTE]
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