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<blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 5840334" data-attributes="member: 1879">For my 2¢ the powers of psionics are baseline magical abilities.The observation that to be treated properly they should be stripped from the Wizards and Clerics is spot on however. If you're going to insist on lots of seperate magical classes, each should have a core set of abilities which, if not unique to them, they at least do better than anyone else. Clerics should not be the only healers (please) but they should be the best. Wizards should not have the only magical boom, but they should have the best. Psionics should not have the only telepathy/clairvoyance/mind***k but they should have the best.Alternately you could do it the way Monte already did it in Arcana Unearthed where all the different spell casters share the vast bulk of thier spell lists, but conceptually draw their power from different sources and may have different spell casting compontents. (Verbal, somatic, material, etc)As for psionics as not being past of fantasy, I think that's bogus. The modern terminology of psionics is anachronistic in a supposedly 12th century fantasy game. However the powers themselves? 9/10th of the supernatural stuff in the LotR was closer to psionics than vancian magic. Precognition (Aragorn), telepathy (elves and gandalf), clairvoyance (several times, usually with assistence from a magic item), hell Faramir mind probed Gollum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andor, post: 5840334, member: 1879"] For my 2¢ the powers of psionics are baseline magical abilities. The observation that to be treated properly they should be stripped from the Wizards and Clerics is spot on however. If you're going to insist on lots of seperate magical classes, each should have a core set of abilities which, if not unique to them, they at least do better than anyone else. Clerics should not be the only healers (please) but they should be the best. Wizards should not have the only magical boom, but they should have the best. Psionics should not have the only telepathy/clairvoyance/mind***k but they should have the best. Alternately you could do it the way Monte already did it in Arcana Unearthed where all the different spell casters share the vast bulk of thier spell lists, but conceptually draw their power from different sources and may have different spell casting compontents. (Verbal, somatic, material, etc) As for psionics as not being past of fantasy, I think that's bogus. The modern [i]terminology[/i] of psionics is anachronistic in a supposedly 12th century fantasy game. However the powers themselves? 9/10th of the supernatural stuff in the LotR was closer to psionics than vancian magic. Precognition (Aragorn), telepathy (elves and gandalf), clairvoyance (several times, usually with assistence from a magic item), hell Faramir [I]mind probed [/I]Gollum. [/QUOTE]

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