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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8680173" data-attributes="member: 19857">The sci-fi trope around psionics from the early days of sci-fi is that humans will eventually progress via "evolvution"[*] into super-powerful psionic weilders.  Often with giant brains. It's basically the same trope that eventually gave us the X-men as well - human evolution leading to a new "race" of beings with fantastic powers.  I strongly suspect that creators who are thinking about psionics and trying to brainstorm ideas for how to write for it end up in that literary rut consciously or unconsciously - consciously because the whole design of D&D often leans on existing tropes that "everyone" already knows and understands, unconsciously because we're all influenced by whatever we read when we were in our personal golden age of 10-14 whether we like that fact or not...[*] No that isn't how evolution works, but it's how the trope works.  Especially in old sci-fi where the writers understood evolution and natural selection less than present day writers do.</blockquote>