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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3779445" data-attributes="member: 18">Is it founded on mysticism from India, though? You sure you're not confusing psychic powers/psionics with, say Buddhism? It seems to be a common mistake. In the Shadow, his psionic-esque powers vaguely Eastern and Buddhist in nature, but that's not inherent to all psionic powers. As for being a l337 k3wl kid, is that worse than everyone who likes the old names being some kind of sad psuedo-science junkie, as seems to be the implication. Both are as bad as each other, frankly.As I said, there's no reason that psionics had to "Oriental Mysticism", and frankly that's a bad idea for ALL the same reasons "psuedo-science" is! Psionics is based on discipline and the mind, and Orient does not have a monopoly on that. As also said, psionic/psychic powers have appeared in fantasy literature quite a lot. I don't know if you've read any of the books involving it, but in none of the cases I came across did they feel the need to make "Eastern" in flavour, especially not having the Inevitable Three Word Ability Names, as seen to the point of boredom in bad wuxia movies and Exalted.I want something that isn't either psuedo-science or "Oriental Magicke", but rather retains the body and mind focus of psionics (together the xkinesises), and takes the ideas and adapts them to D&D. 3E did not do a bad job of this, to be honest. If things like the Monk class are to be regarded as having "Psionic" abilities, then the Monk needs to be made more Psionic, not Psionics more Eastern.</blockquote>

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