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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hashmalum" data-source="post: 582310" data-attributes="member: 9450">Never mind a new psionic combat system, has anyone come up with a new 3E psionics system? One with a completely different "feel" to it? I'm half-tempted to do it myself, but it's a tremendous undertaking, no doubt about it.What I don't like about 3E psionics:(1) Powers of the mind shouldn't use Strength. That's just wrong.(2) Psionics is not just another way of using magic, IMO. The more ways of accessing magic you have, the more it seems that (ala Shadowrun or Mage: the Ascension) basically anyone can do anything if they want it badly enough. (Some of the lamer PrCs, like dungeon delver, from the splatbooks suffer from the same syndrome). And if focused desire is all it takes, why does anyone bother poring through musty old tomes and gathering rare components at all?(3) [Related to (2), above] Powers of the mind, distinct from magic, are a distinctly modern or even futuristic concept. Being taken from a distinctly different milieu, they should feel distinctive and different--they should reflect the setting that originated them. If they don't, what is the point? The legends of psychics rarely have them, say, breathing fire. Psychic powers are supposed to be more subtle than that.(4) Psionics is about relying on your own inner strength, not the power of an external force like magic. As such, the idea of a psionic item is a contradiction in terms.Well, I'm getting carried away here; maybe I should have just created a new thread called "3E psionics suck". Still, if anyone out there has taken a stab at making a new 3E psionics system, I'd like to hear about it.</blockquote>

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