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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 7973735" data-attributes="member: 63508">I believe the base D&amp;D fluff for psionics is a &quot;brain thing&quot;. Anybody with enough brainpower and the right brain can learn psionics. Brain power being a function of your ability scores: INT, WIS, CHA, and CON. This is the &quot;wild talent&quot;. The random chance that your brain is just right to learn psionics.This is what makes psionic classes feel different from sorcerers and wizards. The fluff in AD&amp;D is that high INT race could all become psions if they don't delve into magic and &quot;screw up&quot; their brains with arcane and divine magic. This also allows for the &quot;evil psionic race&quot; to kidnap people and surgically force their brains to be psionic. This is one reason why psionics can look too scientific. One can just kidnap a human village of peasants and in 200 years return with 2000 psionic soldiers.&nbsp; This is straight outta Sci Fi. However if you have the race fantasy race in your setting, it is just fantasy. Psi Knights and Githyanki instead of Paladins and specially bred warriors.Sorcerers in D&amp;D is more a &quot;bloodline genetic&quot; or fateful encounter theme.Psionic classes in D&amp;D is more a biological skill that can be manipulated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 7973735, member: 63508"] I believe the base D&D fluff for psionics is a "brain thing". Anybody with enough brainpower and the right brain can learn psionics. Brain power being a function of your ability scores: INT, WIS, CHA, and CON. This is the "wild talent". The random chance that your brain is just right to learn psionics. This is what makes psionic classes feel different from sorcerers and wizards. The fluff in AD&D is that high INT race could all become psions if they don't delve into magic and "screw up" their brains with arcane and divine magic. This [U]also [/U]allows for the "evil psionic race" to kidnap people and surgically force their brains to be psionic. This is one reason why psionics can look too scientific. One can just kidnap a human village of peasants and in 200 years return with 2000 psionic soldiers. This is straight outta Sci Fi. However if you have the race fantasy race in your setting, it is just fantasy. Psi Knights and Githyanki instead of Paladins and specially bred warriors. Sorcerers in D&D is more a "bloodline genetic" or fateful encounter theme. Psionic classes in D&D is more a biological skill that can be manipulated. [/QUOTE]

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