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Message: <blockquote data-quote="3catcircus" data-source="post: 1512687" data-attributes="member: 16077">Actually, no, I wasn't suggesting that - but since you bring it up, if I were to use *any* psionic system to model The Force, I'd use Shadowforce Archer's (SFA is a Spycraft campaign setting for those not familiar.)  The way it works (I don't have Expanded Psionics Book, so I don't know if that is similar) is that you have to have at least 1 level in a psionic class (Psion, Physical Adept or Mentalist.)  You can multi-class 2 psionic classes, but not all 3.  You then are able to get psionic feats, based on how many class levels you have.  Once you gain a feat, it opens up the ability to use certain psionic skills associated with that feat.  You have a variable degree of success, based on the dice roll, but you also, for some (all?) psionic skills, suffer vitality point damage as a result of using the skill (I guess it is to simulate the mental/physical exhaustion that is occurring as a result of using psionics.)  If psionics were real, I think that this would be how they operate.Well - I would also restrict the ability to be a Jedi/Sith in a fair manner, such that other classes would be attractive to players.  Maybe you'd have to multiclass into a Jedi/Sith character (similar to how Luke Skywalker didn't start out as a jedi, but as a moisture farmer) during the Rebellion era?  Or have to give up certain other things to go to Jedi Academy (pre/post Rebellion Era)?  I dunno - maybe something as arbitrary as only x% of the population have the capacity to become Jedi?</blockquote>

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