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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1436785" data-attributes="member: 63">Well, in my game I use Malhavoc's "Mindscapes," and I find it really adds some nice flavor.  All of the psionic entities in my world are creations of the mind, or of dreams, and not just monsters with different types of magic, so the fact that these rules provide a realm where thought is reality really appeals to me.In fact, the session I just ran, despite it being a bit of a failed experiment, was set entirely in an altered mindscape.  Basically, the metacreationist in the party, who just learned this lovely power called Impressa (which basically lets you create a convincing duplicate of a person, who is a thrall to you) was discreetly compelled to use his psionic powers to create an ectoplasmic reality around the party, and combined with some other outside interference, the PCs spent the majority of the last session having their heads screwed with because they didn't know what they were seeing was fake.Now, the PC metacreationist is a mischevious gnome, so the guy trying to control him and make the ectoplasmic world kill off the party kept running into problems, because the gnome's mind was inherently silly and non-aggressive.  It ran like an episode of Farscape at times, with bizarre symbolism and lots of hints that things were amiss.  The best part came at the end when the PCs started trying to cast things like 'dominate person' on . . . well, basically, on the world, hoping they'd manage to override the domination that was making the party's psion create these dangerous situations.We ran short on time, just as they were about to face the major villain, who had to put himself into the reality so he could just kill them the old fashioned way (because the gnome kept making his Will saves to keep the mind monsters away).  Of course, the world will be shaping to this villain's whims (he's a monk 6/psion 14), so the fight ought to be cool when we run it next week.Anyway . . . I'm not sure what the XPsHB will offer, but Mindscapes is very cool.</blockquote>

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