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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Curmudjinn" data-source="post: 6822206" data-attributes="member: 6778159">Very good comments. Most of this is pretty close to the current direction of my psionic project.At its core, it consists of basic at-will powers chosen at 1st level, which are boosted with power points in many different ways to get the desired effect. At a certain point of boosting, checks must be made to manifest the power in the desired way. As of now, they just fail if the check is failed, but I plan to include an optional rule for the power to wildly manifest as focus is lost and also for massive failures resulting in becoming a beacon for other psychics and psychic predators. "There has been an awakening," if you will.While not exactly serious, a fun example would be:"You boost a power far beyond your control, and it spills from your mind like a lashing beast from the void, psionic power blazing in the nothingness beyond this world. Your party destroys the remaining enemies and begins to loot the corpses of your fallen foes.-POP- A sudden decompression and nauseating feeling assails all present, as suddenly something unfolds itself from very near the location of the psychic's failed manifestation. White, blank eyes scan the scene, pressed deep into a squid-like head atop a tall, inhumanly thin, humanoid frame."This is a useful deterrent, as psionic PCs may(or may not) know that excess use of power beyond their ability to focus and control can rain back on them. I also like the idea of Success But.., as if a PC boosts every since power point and hit point they can into a power, effectively nova-ing, may still cause a pissed-off githzerai or even a local psionic npc to appear and find out what the heck is misusing power and calling the thunder upon them from distant planes.I have two systems in place to regain power points to further boost your powers. Sacrificing your own HP to regain them or directly stealing them from nearby intelligent creatures. Blast your enemy, siphon his intellect, and blast him again! It will all, of course, need to be playtested in time.I currently have them split into two base classes. The psychic that shreds his own form to manifest, and the psychic that merely uses powers as an extension of his martial prowess. One believes in all-psionics, all of the time, while the other is more in-line with the perfection of mind and body and not willing to sacrifice one or the other. They have very-specialized subclass disciplines to represent their longterm honing on their more talented aspect of their minds.Thank you though, keep it coming. There are already quite a few things that I wanted to include, yet have slipped through my fingers as I crunched down on other things.</blockquote>

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