D&D General Psychic powers in Greyhawk

[Shades of Eternity]

How does Greyhawk treat psychic powers?

I remember a certain bizarre appendix in 1st edition phb.

There were many psychic monsters in the 1st edition monster manuals.

3rd edition the default setting was greyhawk so the expanded psychic handbook applied?

So I'm asking

How is psychic powers used in Greyhawk?

 

[James Gasik]

The only thing I can find is a blurb in the Complete Psionics Handbook from 2e. I checked 3.5's Complete Psionic, but it's missing any information about Psionic campaigns, so if anything exists pertaining to Greyhawk from that era, it must be someplace else.

 

[Azzy]

How does Greyhawk treat psychic powers?

I remember a certain bizarre appendix in 1st edition phb.

There were many psychic monsters in the 1st edition monster manuals.

3rd edition the default setting was greyhawk so the expanded psychic handbook applied?

So I'm asking

How is psychic powers used in Greyhawk?

Aside from the Baklunish deity Zouken, who was as patron of psionic characters, I don't think I've read anything that really calls out psionics (but I could easily be forgetting something because I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of the setting). Since Greyhawk was originally a blank canvas that assumed that anything published in the AD&D rules were included, psionics was (and is) something that is just assumed to be there.

But, make Greyhawk your own and don't be beholden to anything that's been published or to what other GH fans do.

 

[Rabbitbait]

I remember that psionics existed, but it was rare. You were more likely to find a monster with psionic powers than a humanoid.

 

[Voadam]

In the 1e '83 boxed set the deities and quasi deities have psionic entries similar to the way 1e deities and monsters do in the 1e Deities and Demigods book.

Xan Yae is the Baklunish lesser deity of twilight, stealth, mind over matter, et al. She has widespread worship outside of the Baklunish people. She is one of the deities with more descriptions and she is noted as a powerful psionic.

Zuoken is a Baklunish demigod of physical and mental mastery.

Both would be appropriate patrons for psionic characters in Greyhawk.

 

[Voadam]

The 3.5 Expanded Psionics Handbook has entries for both the Demigod Zuoken as a patron of psionics and the Illithid Greater God Ilsensine, patron of those who mentally enslave others. It also has a psionic prestige class and organization connected to Zuoken and psionic centers of learning without mentioning Greyhawk explicitly.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I came to mention both Xan Yae and Zuoken long from 1e days and pleased to see them both already mentioned.

 

[Yaarel]

How does Greyhawk treat psychic powers?

I remember a certain bizarre appendix in 1st edition phb.

There were many psychic monsters in the 1st edition monster manuals.

3rd edition the default setting was greyhawk so the expanded psychic handbook applied?

So I'm asking

How is psychic powers used in Greyhawk?

Psionics works normally in Greyhawk.

What might be surprising is, in 1e Greyhawk, Celestials and Fiends are typically psionic.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

How does Greyhawk treat psychic powers?

I remember a certain bizarre appendix in 1st edition phb.

There were many psychic monsters in the 1st edition monster manuals.

3rd edition the default setting was greyhawk so the expanded psychic handbook applied?

So I'm asking

How is psychic powers used in Greyhawk?

The first edition version of psionics is not specifically "Greyhawk". The AD&D core rules were published first, and under the assumption that homebrew settings where standard. They are, therefore, generic 1st edition AD&D.

They served as an add on to a character. If they player wished, they could check to see if their character was psionic, rolling D100. The chance was low and increased if the character had a higher intelligence and wisdom. If the roll succeeded the character got a couple of X-Men like superpowers, and attack and defence modes. Psionic combat was a scissors-paper-stone affair. Often, psionics could only affect other psionics, and a lot of powerful monsters had psionics that would only come into play if there was a psionic PC, as well as a bunch of monsters specifically designed to punish psionic characters.