Psionics Toolkit (by S&S)

[omedon]

2) We pay Mearls by the word - we're not rich, you know.

Well not yet anyways, right James?

Come on 6-49.

 

[Gez]

One of the use I have of psionic is that, IMC, there are some deities (or rather quasi-deities) that were dispersed and merged with the very Earth at some regions, creating a phenomenon of "sentient regions". Places with a spirit, which is the only remain of a former deity, often embittered by its condition, but not always conscious. Psionics are people who either act as servant of one of these spirit, or have managed to channel the power of the unconscious spiritshards of the deities whose mind was destroyed by the event.

How's that for a sci-fi approach ?

Well, anyway, if I explained this, it is to ask some simple questions:

* Is this the kind of things that are suggested to use psionics in fantasy ?
Has the author (Mearls, if I understand well) thought of something like that, by the way ?

* Is the book compatible with twists like that ?

 

[mearls]

I'll see if I can direct him here, so he can provide some more insight...

I'm currently sick and taking cough medicine, so let's hope this comes out in a reasonably coherent form.

The PSIONICS TOOLKIT is meant as a guidebook to DMs who want to integrate psionics into a traditional D&D game. It literally grew out of my efforts to add psi to my games. The material presented throughout the book are all meant as stepping stones, pieces you can drop into a non-psi game and use as a lever to introduce psionics in a coherent, reasonable manner, as opposed to suddenly having a bunch of psions show up in a campaign. The PSIONICS TOOLKIT is a bridge between psionics and D&D campaigns that weren't designed from the ground up to include psi.

To accomplish that, the book includes a wide range of stuff, from artifacts to a new race to new monsters. Some of it serves as a bridge to psi, while other pieces are minor psionics NPCs or creatures you can add into an otherwise non-psi game for a change of pace.

Gez: I don't think an idea like that appears in the book. The first section is a questionnaire designed to help you add psi to you game, so the pieces from the book definitely would work with an explanation like that.