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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 2186076" data-attributes="member: 5100">Agreed.  I also dislike the "hey, you lose all of your levels and gain 2 PSP" aspect of Elan.  Statistically, and somewhat conceptually, speaking, however, they fit a niche in my campaign.  IMC, I explain psi as people with inherent magic, whereas arcanists tap into external forces and manipulate them in a more scientific fashion.  So, psions are mutants (in the Marvel Comics sense), basically. Since 1E, I've had an "evil, monolithic empire" that heavily relied on psionics.  This is mainly because they were amoral/immoral enough to experiment with all sorts of nasty magics.  Much of those magics "leaked".  Kind of a radiation poisoning scenario.  The humans in this evil empire have a tendancy to turn up psionic.  This is partly because of the general leak and partially because the empire has actively set up an Eugenics program to encourage it -- especially Telepaths and Teleporters. In previous editions, that had random wild talents, I just said these humans had a 25% chance of psionics instead of a 1% base.  Now, I just have some Elans amongst the populace.  Often they come out of the breeding program, but they may show up from human slave parents.  Or, an Elan may give birth to a human child, but Elan + Elan tends to breed true.  Elan is not a voluntary tranfiguration of an already adult human, IMC.  It's an "evolution" of the human race. So, the backstory is parellel, but not the same.  Statistically, Elans are the same IMC, though.</blockquote>

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