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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8558347" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I just wanted to clarify, Nevin.&nbsp; There was always the possibility that you were referring to something in one of the later sourcebooks, but the Complete Psionicist's Handbook was clunky, hard to use, and fairly tame.&nbsp; Plus there were several spells that at least partially protected you from telepathic powers, such as Protection from Evil (raises power scores by 2), Mind Blank (though they got a save) and Free Action even prevented Domination!&nbsp; (You might wonder why a player would ever like 2e's system, since I'm the first to admit it was kid of backwards.&nbsp; One thing was it was unique, magic didn't work this way.&nbsp; The other was, it's actually quite balanced in that powers could fail, and you could only do so much at a time, and there were limitations- Psychic Surgery takes multiple TURNS -not rounds; in AD&amp;D a turn is 10 rounds-.&nbsp; But at the same time, since you could recover PSP's over the course of one day, you weren't one and done after a combat or two.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8558347, member: 6877472"] I just wanted to clarify, Nevin. There was always the possibility that you were referring to something in one of the later sourcebooks, but the Complete Psionicist's Handbook was clunky, hard to use, and fairly tame. Plus there were several spells that at least partially protected you from telepathic powers, such as Protection from Evil (raises power scores by 2), Mind Blank (though they got a save) and Free Action even prevented Domination! (You might wonder why a player would ever like 2e's system, since I'm the first to admit it was kid of backwards. One thing was it was unique, magic didn't work this way. The other was, it's actually quite balanced in that powers could fail, and you could only do so much at a time, and there were limitations- Psychic Surgery takes multiple TURNS -not rounds; in AD&D a turn is 10 rounds-. But at the same time, since you could recover PSP's over the course of one day, you weren't one and done after a combat or two.) [/QUOTE]

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