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<blockquote data-quote="taotad" data-source="post: 148419" data-attributes="member: 3245">You might be right Humanophile. This does stigmatize the psion AND the psychic warrior, but not so much as you might think:&nbsp;The only time this rule applies is when to psionic beings encounter eachother. Only then. So that the two psionic beings are at a disadvantage when facing several opponents and a psionic being is of no doubt.&nbsp;But the psionic beings actually negate each others presence in the combat by this rule. They step out of the material fight and must continue to face the other until one goes down. (feel that western-sensation crawling?)&nbsp;It makes psionic combat something you DO NOT want to participate in, since it effectively cancels out your whole repertoair of powers. Most of all it makes psionic combat very special.Now to the good point of Caliber. The PP-drain on psionicists will be horrendous with this system; and to be honest I don't have any good ideas to cancel this out. We could say that manifesting a defense costs the required cost, but maintaining it is relatively free (1 PP per round?). As a hindrance to using this ability, we would let any attacker KNOW that the defense was being maintained, and using a psionic lore against opponents bluff could identify it, letting the attacking manifester change his attack mode to maximize the attack. This would lead to a strategic approach to combat, but would tamper it in real-time.Also like giving monsters PP. How do you do that?&nbsp;Hope you like the idea, and please continue to critic, albeit my rather long replies... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="taotad, post: 148419, member: 3245"] You might be right Humanophile. This does stigmatize the psion AND the psychic warrior, but not so much as you might think: The only time this rule applies is when to psionic beings encounter eachother. Only then. So that the two psionic beings are at a disadvantage when facing several opponents and a psionic being is of no doubt. But the psionic beings actually negate each others presence in the combat by this rule. They step out of the material fight and must continue to face the other until one goes down. (feel that western-sensation crawling?) It makes psionic combat something you DO NOT want to participate in, since it effectively cancels out your whole repertoair of powers. Most of all it makes psionic combat very special. Now to the good point of Caliber. The PP-drain on psionicists will be horrendous with this system; and to be honest I don't have any good ideas to cancel this out. We could say that manifesting a defense costs the required cost, but maintaining it is relatively free (1 PP per round?). As a hindrance to using this ability, we would let any attacker KNOW that the defense was being maintained, and using a psionic lore against opponents bluff could identify it, letting the attacking manifester change his attack mode to maximize the attack. This would lead to a strategic approach to combat, but would tamper it in real-time. Also like giving monsters PP. How do you do that? Hope you like the idea, and please continue to critic, albeit my rather long replies... :) [/QUOTE]

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