Prepare to have your mind blown as we dig into the new D&D Psion class that's just been released in the latest Unearthed Arcana Playtest. https://dungeonsanddragonsfan.com/new-dnd-psion-class/ #dnd #dnd5e #dnd2024 #dungeonsanddragons #dungeonsanddragons5e #dungeonmaster #psionics #psion #wizardsofthecoast #wotc #dndbeyond #UnearthedArcana #ttrpg #TTRPGCommunity
#psionics
UFO Whistleblower Jake Barber Defines The Term "Psionics"
Key Components of Psionics:
Universal field of consciousness
Two-way information exchange
Intuitive connection methods
Mental barrier removal
Natural human capability
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Imagine for a moment #NHI advanced enough to traverse time and space getting here and parking the Ferrari with top down, engine running, keys in the ignition and...
๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ข ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต'๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ฐ...
Maybe some day, just not today. Even if that driving school is actually a thing the-
The english version of The Institute of the Invisible Path a.k.a.: The Mind Keep
https://blog.derbrumme.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/241219-Mind-Keep-EN-Draft01.pdf
English version translated with googletranslate, plus a bit of manual editing afterwards.
The original German text was created in under 4 hours using #ChatGPT:
12/18 8:30 p.m. first idea, GPT started
12/19 12:15 a.m. PDF saved
The creative part took about 3 hours, then 45 minutes working on the text.
All of my work has #magic & #psionics & #bullshido; they're not normal in decent society-- but in the jianghu, they are.
Psychic abilities are the classic ESP, telepathy, and telekinesis.
Magic is D&D style. 'Rituals' and 'spells'. Magic is divided into narrow, thematic 'power sources'.
Bullshido is anime martial arts, Beowulf and Cรบ Chulainn, fencing manuals and forgotten scrolls.
#Cultivation is hard work and you can't master one power without training them all.
Hereโs a short YA #fantasy novel set in a world Iโd actually like to explore as a #TTRPG. The author has just re-released it with a new cover and, full disclosure, he is a friend of mine. One of the interesting aspects of his world that makes me want to explore it as a TTRPG is magic. Heโs not coming from a Vancian or Tolkein-esque view but more like sci-fi where #magic works more like #psionicsโฆand itโs outlawed.
Uprooted (Brothers of Orinthia) https://a.co/d/h20x319
[February 14, 1969] #Psychedelia and #psionics unite on this week's episode of #StarTrek: "The Lights of Zetar"!
Wrapping up (finally): Incorporating #ADnD #psionics into the mix of miscellaneous arcana does a lot to untangle my Gordian Knot. We can make herbalism more than just healing. We can explain the big secret of alchemy. We can make folk diviners who are accidentally psychic. We can give witches new reasons (and new ways) to be plotting against society.
And redefining some of those things as psionic has the added bonus of making them more mysterious to players. I think this could really work!
Getting away from witches and diviners, I suppose I should think about other "gifts" that could be the secret to a non-adventurer's success:
That one herbalist who's the best healer in the countryside? She's using Cell Adjustment!
The best horse trainer in the city? Here's using Animal Telepathy!
The courtier who knows *too* much gossip? ESP!
Everyone loves an NPC with a secret, and #psionics can be a secret directly connected to the NPC's professional identity.
(One bit of witch lore I love, but can't fit into #psionics is a cinematic classic: A witch placing a curse on her executioners *while* being burned at the stake, which doesn't take effect for years. That's one that still needs to be "real" magic.)
An interesting game mechanical effect of using #psionics for #ADnD witches: If they're not dependent on magic for witchcraft, you can give the witches a wider range of character classes. Given how often witches are accused of poisoning and murder, I kind of want to make a "witch" who's actually a devil-worshipping psionic assassin!
If you don't like heritable #psionics, combine the two ideas for an extra touch of psychological horror:
Every psionic witch grows up *thinking* they inherited their powers from a parent. Upon reaching adulthood, they undergo their full diabolist initiation, and learn *all* witch children are kidnapped from non-psionic parents (which the cult justifies in the grounds that non-psionic families would have rejected or abused the kids anyway).
Sometimes, Evil wins people over by sounding logical!
Ambiguities in the #ADnD #psionics rules can give new twists to some old witchcraft #folkore, too.
Why does witchcraft run in families? Because psionics is a heritable trait. (The rules don't say it isn't!)
Why do witches steal babies? They're recruiting psionic kids for their cult. (The rules don't set a minimum age for when psionics activate, so the DM can totally put scary psionic babies in the game!)
I admit I haven't used #psionics much in my #ADnD games because it's difficult to fit into a medieval world, but I think "secret psionics" is the hook I needed. It explains a bunch of the non-wizardly occult things I want to explain, and makes psionics into a metaphor for #witchcraft.
Because I'm a cynic, I'll go one step further. Being rejected by normal people can make a group more vulnerable to being recruited by people who don't reject them, so... who tries to recruit psionic people?
"Secret psionics" is cutting multiple strings from my Gordian Knot, but one has to ask "Why are all these psionic characters hiding their powers?"
Civilized spellcasting in #ADnD takes years of study. (Magic-Users have the highest starting age of any character.) NPCs know this.
#Psionics is not learned. It just happens. When someone who hasn't spent years studying magic or religion demonstrates "magic" power, that's suspicious.
Small-town psionicists hide their power to avoid the suspicion!
Admittedly, #ADnD psionic Precognition isn't incredible, but it's *there*.
There is a tradition (mostly seen in horror films) of protagonists who visit ridiculous fortune tellers, but unexpectedly receive an accurate prediction. It's later explained by a supporting character admitting fortune-telling is bunk, but *this* fortune teller has "the Gift."
#Psionics is The Gift! Some sheepherders can really predict the future with Precognition, but pretend it's all in the bones.
I'm not done with secret #psionics yet. Let's talk about folk divinations.
Human cultures are full of absurd methods of telling the future. Stare into a fire. Stare into a crystal. Stare at a sheep's scapula. And they all have funny names, created by people who don't practice divination.
Unlike modern fortune-telling, most magic divination isn't very open ended. You don't ask a pyromancer for an open-ended reading; you ask him a question with binary outcomes like "Will we win the battle?"
Non-psionic alchemists will never be as successful as the psionic alchemists, and they'll never know why. I bet they get bitter about that.
Alternately, we could circle back to the idea of "pharmacological #psionics" -- what if the alchemical search for the Philosophers Stone is actually a search for a psionic drug that gives the user the power of Molecular Rearrangement? Maybe alchemists know more about psionics than wizards do!
Two good ideas here, and I don't know which is better.
The idea that *some* #ADnD alchemists are secretly using #psionics puts a new twist on #alchemy. All of the great alchemists of legend were actually psionicists. Wizards think #alchemy is a poor imitation of magic, but it's really a poor imitation of psionics!
99.99% of alchemists are never going to turn lead into gold, because alchemy can't do that. The successful 0.01% are just using alchemy as a cover.
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