In Tolkienesque fantasy games with a magic system already in place, such as Dungeons and Dragons, psionics are often introduced to provide an alternative system that functions differently from existing magic systems.

In 3rd and 3. 5 editions, the standard psionics system incorporates psionics – magic transparency, which treats psionic energy and magic as mutually and equally vulnerable to a dispel magic spell or a dispel psionics power ; spell resistance protects against powers just as it protects against spells, while power resistance protects against spells as it does against powers.

A variant rule, known as " psionics are different ," enforces a separation between the two systems ; this rule also provides an intermediate step where each system has a diminished effect upon the other ( for example, making a dispel check against an opposing energy would take a-4 penalty, and creatures with spell resistance gain power resistance equal to their spell resistance minus 10 ).

The psionics system was again revised for the 3. 5 edition of the game, in the Expanded Psionics Handbook.

Psionicists use psionics using 2nd edition's standard psionics system, in which they expend Psionic Strength Points to activate and sustain powers, and activating most powers requires a roll based on an ability score.

While some of these conversions were direct adaptations of existing statistics into the slightly modified second edition rules, others, like the optional psionics system, were completely reinvented from the ground up and had little in common with their previous incarnations.

House Oblodra, however, was gifted in the rare art of psionics and seized upon this opportunity to strike at the other Houses.

The first role-playing game to use the term psionics was Traveller, published by GDW in 1977, and published in different licensed versions to this day.

In 1st edition, there was no specific character class for psionics.

In 3rd edition this class was renamed to the psion, and various new alternate classes were introduced based on psionics usage.

Soulknife was a prestige class in the original Psionics Handbook, but it was made into a base class when psionics were revised for v3. 5.

In this form, Franklin was an adept at molecular manipulation and psionics.

He was used by Apocalypse to hunt down all telepaths that refuse to join Apocalypse as well as to teach those who accepted the offer and had psionics powers.

* FAREWELL: In the latter days of The One-year War, many young adults were drafted for the research of so-called new-type psionics, but it was nothing but a kind of kid buying.

Optional rules for psionics were included in the original Player's Handbook.

The Expanded Psionics Handbook is a sourcebook by Bruce Cordell for the 3. 5 edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game that contains a multitude of rules and options for integrating psychic powers ( a. k. a. psionics ) into the D & D game.

Abilities in the HERO System, particularly Powers ( a broad category that includes superpowers, magic, psionics, and high technology ), are modeled based on their effects.

The Dark Sun campaign setting used psionics as a core part of its setting's rules ; in the world of Athas ( home to the Dark Sun setting ), every character and most monsters possessed some psionic wild talent.

Shattered Lands also incorporates elements unique to the Dark Sun campaign setting, including unique character races ( the Mul and the insectoid Thri-kreen ) and extensive use of psionics.

There are suggestions for creating scenarios and campaigns, and information on technology of various humanoid species of the Ringworld, and additional rules, including gravity, Credit Rating, and psionics.

Settings may include the future, or alternative time lines, and stories may depict new or speculative scientific principles, such as time travel or psionics, or new technology, such as nanotechnology, faster-than-light travel or robots.

Mind-to-mind communication can be " psionics ", or it can be an ancient elvish art.

When he awakens, Mitchell's eyes glow silver, and he begins to display remarkable psionics.

The game takes place in an abandoned underwater utopian community destroyed by the genetic modification of its populace and shares many gameplay elements with System Shock 2: reconstitution stations can be activated, allowing the player to be resurrected when they die ; hacking, ammo conservation, and exploration are integral parts of gameplay ; and unique powers may be acquired via plasmids, special abilities that function similarly to psionics in System Shock 2.

Psionics usually appear in science fiction or contemporary settings, although it is sometimes seen in medieval fantasy as well ( mostly in role-playing games ), sometimes with both magic and psionics existing side by side as two distinct phenomena.

* Telekinesis and precognition, as exhibited by the Jedi in Star Wars for example, are also quite common in fictional examples of psionics.

* In the strategy game StarCraft, psionics play an important role in explaining many of the abilities and powers of special units and aliens in the game.

* In the Earthbound series, psionics plays a major role.

Many of the protagonists utilize psionics as an ultimate secondary ability.

The protagonists – Ninten and Ana in Mother ; Ness, Paula, and Poo in Mother 2 ( Earthbound ); and Lucas, Claus and Kumatora in Mother 3 – are known to utilize psionics.

In 2nd, 3rd and 3. 5 editions, psionics are divided into five or six disciplines, or groupings of powers.

Prior to 3rd edition, magic and psionics are treated as distinct from each other.

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