Psionics--the Poll!

Would you like to have Psionics in your game?

  • Yes please.

    Votes: 86 66.7%
  • No thanks.

    Votes: 43 33.3%

To which my answer is, "Only in some settings."
So, once again, forming a false dichotomy by bad poll construction.
Which means your answer is yes. Your game includes all the settings you choose to play, so you want psionics in your game, but they may not be in X setting, but would be in Y setting.
 

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Then you don't call it "psionics". That term has its origins in 1950s sci-fi, and has mostly been used in sci-fi and academic parapsychology since then, with D&D as one outlier fantasy use.

Call it "psychic powers", or some such, if you want to divorce it from the sci-fi connotations.
Everyone knows that psionics in a science fantasy setting is called the Force. :P
 








i would like psionics, i like that it brings a different flavour and mechanics, i like the idea that there can exist more than one power system in a setting and that they could work differently, i think it's incredibly boring and limiting to just throw everything vaguely supernatural into the bucket of 'magic'
 
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