From:	Scott Wheelock iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject:	Psionics
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:01:38 -0400

"And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to Gurth."
]Judging by Awakenings, FASA subscribes to #2 -- Awakenings describes
]several people who think of themselves as something other than "standard"
]magicians, but who use magic just like everyone else when it comes down to
]it. A psionic would be either a sorcerer or a full magician who knows
]mainly spells that affect the mind (Control Thoughts, Mind Probe, and so
]on) and/or spells that can be mistaken for ones that do (Mana Bolt,
]Decrease Attribute, etc.).

Along the same lines, a player in my game who is obsessed with Star Wars
almost (but chickened out) made a PC who believed he could manipulate
the "Force." I would have just used the regular rules, but applied an
appropriate geasa for using powers the wrong way (going to the dark side).
And almost every force power matches a Shadowrun spell anyway, so
its easy enough to do.
Then he started whining about a lightsaber...

Scott
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