Has anyone tried to do psionics in DW?

27 thoughts on “Has anyone tried to do psionics in DW?”

1. Kinda scary. 🙂

   I’m gonna post up a magic item that’s psionic in nature, converted to DW.

2. What sort or psonics are you thinking about? Mind bending, reality bending, or grab bag?

3. Yes! (And by that I mean grab bag, I guess.)

4. Then I would look at spell casters as your model.

5. I intend to. However, I was wondering if anyone (else, besides myself) has already done or tried to do psionics.

6. I’ve seen some playbooks that go the mind bender route without being psionics and none that really go the reality bender route. Thats why I asked.

7. They called it Soulknife, but yeah. 🙂

   I thought maybe you could have a base psion class and then do the other classes as compendium classes: psychic warrior/soulknife, wilder, and then the psionic prestige classes.

8. My experience with psionics is a combination of the two, I guess. I have the Complete Psionics Handbook from 2e AD&D, and then the various Psionics Handbooks from 3.x D&D. This magic item I’m converting involves the six disciplines from D&D psionics: Clairsentience, Psychoportation, Metacreativity, Psychokinesis, Psychometabolism, and Telepathy.

9. Well, seeing as how it’s always been an add-on, I guess the prevailing opinion was that it wasn’t needed. 4e treated psionics as simply another type of magic, like being a specialist.

10. Yeah, that was stupid. 😛

11. That was kind of my plan. We’ll see how it goes.

12. I thought I had seen two earlier attempts by different people in this community. Might want to dig through some of the older posts.

13. http://www.latorra.org/2012/07/10/the-battlemind/

14. Aha!

15. Oh man, it’s like the psionic focus of 3.5 D&D psionics. Thought that mechanic was particularly innovative.

16. True. But they did fold monk into the Psychic power source in 4e. 🙂

17. Use Wisdom or Intelligence as Psionic Power Points!

18. Ooh! Good call Adam Koebel !

19. Doing some Wikipedia reading on the Chakras!

20. If you go on the DW forums, search for “Psion” by a user called Mr. Prim. He’s already made a pretty cool Psion, and in the thread someone did a quick write-up of the Soulknife.

21. Yeah, I found that. I’m going to have to read and digest it.

    Anyone know if the man behind MrPrim is on the Plus?

22. Someone on SG made a AW hack of Star Wars that had some rules for the Force. Perhaps useful to you.

23. Christopher Grau I’m into Psionics because I like the flavor of it more than D&D magic.  It just fits how I feel preternatural powers should work so much better than the usual divine/arcane Vancian magic.  

       So, Craig Hatler  I’ll be very curious what you finally come up with.  

24. Talk about a blast from the past…

25. Hmmm?

26. Someone just +1’ed this post that’s from over 2 years ago…

27. Lol

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