| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Psionics 2 |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:37:37 +0100 |
the street was...
> But, I was thinking along a slightly different line.
> This one in fact :
>
> Psionics has nothing to do with the sixth world. It is purely a development
> of the human mind.
That would take roughly 100 years longer to achieve...
:)
> Here's a setting :
>
> A team of runners walks in to a hostile bar looking for someone.
> Suddenly one of the teams Sam's seems to go crazy, pulls his gun out and
> starts spraying hot lead all over the bar.
> The teams mage goes "Hmmm, something not right here. That look's like mind
> control." The mage goes astral and starts looking for any astrally active
> people in the room but can't find any cos' our friendly psionicly active NPC
> is a mundane and is not astrally active. He is just using the power of his
> mind to control the Sam.
>
> The team then has to subdue the Sam and make a quick exit from the building.
My first reaction, as a magician PC, would be to think "That guy must be
an initiate masking his aura" right before the rest of the team will
follow the "geek the mage" principle against the NPC.
You'd have to have a really good explanation of why this character is a
psionic before I'd accept it...
> That's the sort of thing I was thinking about. I want something that once
> in a while I can throw a curve ball at the players from the rear when they
> are expecting a fast ball from the front.
>
> What's everyone's take on that idea?
It's not something I'd put into a game. My main reason is that it's a
completely new thing, that IMnsHO doesn't fit at all well with the
existing SR setting. If you want your players to come across something
unexpected, there are a LOT of possibilities in the existing SR material
already, without the need to introduce something radically different.
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