tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post1861959487147963426..comments2024-03-28T17:48:19.196-05:00Comments on The Other Side blog: Class Struggles: Psionics, D.S. al CodaTimothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-61934187714379399812019-01-30T15:32:52.963-06:002019-01-30T15:32:52.963-06:00@Travis: Yeah, I have covered the Deryni here quit...@Travis: Yeah, I have covered the Deryni here quite a bit. I think Dragon #78 is on my list of ones to review too. <br /><br />I also have the Mayfair games book with the Deryni as a playable class/race here too. Fun stuff, but I have not played in a Deryni game since 1988.<br /><br />@Adam: Yeah, that is also a good way to do it. Very much like the Adept we played in 1st ed that I talk about in the post. The psychics that mimic wizards.<br /><br />@Justin: Fun is the key. If it isn't then why do it? I have a 1000 other games I can play.Timothy S. Brannanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-41476764013240770702019-01-30T14:30:48.049-06:002019-01-30T14:30:48.049-06:00Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series does an excell...Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series does an excellent job with psionics in a fantasy world. The deryni -- essentially humans with psionic powers -- are considered a "magical race", and are feared, admired, and hunted for it. There are glimmerings of "real magic" as a thing in the series, touching somewhat on the real-world idea that "magic" is simply a ritualized way of calling up and focusing psychic power.<br /><br />It spawned two adaptations into AD&D. The larger one appeared in Dragon #78, with the first version of "the psionicist" as a class, an article expanding on psionics, and articles specifically on the deryni and the major characters of the series as it stood at that time. The other was Lenard Lakofka's "The Cloistered Cleric" in a different issue of Dragon (I forget the exact number now).Travis Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06253865399734469829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-36470216700282470822019-01-30T13:50:10.470-06:002019-01-30T13:50:10.470-06:00The "I studied it exhaustively" vs "...The "I studied it exhaustively" vs "It comes to me naturally" dichotomy comes in to modern D&D in the Wizard vs the Sorcerer. If I'm doing Psychics in 3e and later, I usually just reskin Sorcerers into Psychics.Adam Nesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10411493069089648244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-35533224298533012162019-01-30T12:44:56.402-06:002019-01-30T12:44:56.402-06:00I do feel that psionics have more of a sci-fi feel...I do feel that psionics have more of a sci-fi feeling to them for me. I did have a lot of fun playing an elven soulknife in 3.5 though. That's why in some games I keep them regulated to creatures beyond the stars and in the Underdark (which is also alien). <br /><br />That being said, I think you have a great point. If you think they're fun, then add them and use them in a game. Pun Isaachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09322348326050100339noreply@blogger.com