From: | Chris Gottbrath <chrisg@****.EDU> |
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Subject: | an idea for psionic |
Date: | Mon, 1 Aug 1994 15:44:27 MST |
I have been listening in on your discussion of adding psions to the
shadowrun genre.. and overall i approve of the idea ...
I was just walking down the hall and thinking about what kind of
weaknesses (besides drain etc.. ) that might be appropriate to psionic
characters..
What about this :
since psionic characters have somehow expanded their conciousness, it
is concievable that this puts them in touch, at a suboncious level with the
minds of those around them, they would "hear" the minds surrounding them
even if they where not attempting telepathy or anything, somthing like hearing
the bacround noise in a room even if you are trying to listen to one person or
even listening to nobody. Well assuming that psionic characters have this kind
of low level awareness would possibly give them slight advantages... ie the
ability to "feel someone" approach when they where alone (this goes along well
with the varied literature on the subject and is a minor enough power that i
think every psionicist should have it.) however a person (or mind or being
whichever you prefer) in extream stress might give off much stronger psionic
noise (perhaps this is what vamp's feed off of, but that is another
question entirely) perhaps this would be a distraction, and certainly
someone dying should give off some kind of psychic scream probably stunning
any psionisits that happen to be nearby. On a greater level catastrophic
deaths of many individuals might have a greater effect (i am thinking of the
"tremmor in the force" scene where Obi Wan is visibly shaken/weakened by the
combined deaths of all the inhabitants of alderan) on all psionisists in the
area (perhaps worldwide).
This would tend to encourage psionically active characters to avoid
leathal combat, a much more playable and interesting reason than simply saying
that they are "wise" or somthing and hence avoid it. It goes along
(i think) with this worldmind concept that someone was mentioning .. a
fundimental connection between all minds (or mabe just all psionic minds)
It might be interesting to insert a class of characters who have a "real"
reason to avoid killing but have skills that are ultimatly suited to the
shadows....
What do ya'll think?
chris
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Christopher Gottbrath < chrisg@****.edu or chrisg@******.edu >
Summer REU Student KPNO/NOAO *don't blame them for what i say*
Don't Panic = the two most usefull words in the universe
Murphy's Law = G.U.T. with a few relativstic variables set to zero
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