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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteelDraco" data-source="post: 5538209" data-attributes="member: 359">I work the alien-ness of psionics into my game.Psionics are the purview of abominations, which are essentially refugees from a destroyed world or plane. They invaded the world, and were mostly fought back in ancient times, and now only exist in the deep places and hidden corners way off the beaten track. That doesn't mean that their natures haven't had an impact on the world, though. Sometimes people are born with strange powers that don't fit in with the magical traditions people understand. It's a way of working the witch-hunt idea into my setting without everybody wondering why they don't also burn all those mages wandering around. Mechanically, I'm actually quite fond of the 3.5 psionics system. I'm not entirely convinced it's balanced with the magic system as written, but the changes are fairly easy to implement. I don't think being able to switch energy types on the fly is very balanced when no one else can do it so easily AND match or exceed an arcane blaster type in damage output. I've played an all-psionic game at one point, and had quite a lot of fun with it. We were all playing gestalt githzerai on the gith homeworld, which was an entirely wild magic zone where psionics worked fine. It was crazy and over the top and a great time.A little bit of the fluff from the 3e and 3.5 psionics books were related to Dark Sun - the half-giant and thri-kreen were originally races from that setting, which was the only one that TSR ever put out that had psionics in an important role. It's pretty understandable that they'd show up in psionic-related book, though only a few races were from there - the rest were original to the book except for the dueregar, which was always an Underdark psionic dwarf.</blockquote>

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