I just finished re reading the New Teen Titans first newstand series.  I will go back and get the Baxter series in a few days.  I am sure we can all recall Pcimond, the leader of the Fearsome Five.  He had pcionics as a power, and he reminded us every panel when he said, " With my pcionics I..." then he did what ever the hell he liked.

Well I like the idea of pretty much doing what ever the hell you want with a power, and we talked about it  with Magic so I thought I would make up some rules for Pcionics B:  you can do pretty much what ever you want Power.

Pcionics A is just as the rules said,  you pick something and that is your power.  Its one of the wildcard powers that make this game so much fun.

Pcionics B is you can do what you imagine.   Here is the rules.   please keep in mind it is tailored for my house rules.
 
Pcionics B.  The character can do what ever they can imagine.   In order to do this they must roll Id100 to properly imagine the effect, Id20 if they have the proper knowledge to help this out.  Then they must make a successful save on Wd20 to make it happen.   The number of successes( the amount you rolled UNDER your Will) is used as a + to hit.  The number of failures ( the number ABOVE your will score) is used as a minus.   If a 20 is rolled on this roll, there is a backfire.  That is up to the GM.
    If you make both save,  you properly imagined the effect and made it happen, then you must roll to hit.   The column you used is based on the effect.   That means if you want your foe to burst into flames, you roll as flame powers.  If you want your foe to become super heavy, you roll vs gravity. 

   The range is IxWx Level and the damage is 2d8.  The power cost is the same as the power being copied+2.

What do you think?

I've had two players recently get this power, and they both came up with rather unique abilities for it. 

1. Chose to use it as a mind trap.  Essentially, he captured the target of the attack in their own mind.  It attacked as paralysis, and required a wake up roll to break free. 

2. This character had telepathy and had rolled diminished senses as a weakness.  He came up with the idea of having diminished sight, but being able to "see" through the eyes of those around him.  Basically, this gives him the ability to see things from others point of view, he can see what others are looking at, and combine that with his own vision as long as there are others around to prevent his disability from crippling him.  I thought the idea was creative and will work with him on it as he develops the character...

I like it (well exept for the will stat) but also see it as just standard psionics...

still its a good way to simulate that comic power nice work.

The Power Cosmic, is basically an "omni" power that lets you do whatever you think will move the storyline along.

Hammer wrote on Aug 17^th, 2009 at 2:02am:


First off,  Hi welcome to the Forum!

  I like what you did.  Every unconventional!   How is it working with the player?  Any frustrations?    It sounds like you guys go for more role playing than hack and slash.

John wrote on Aug 20^th, 2009 at 12:38pm:


The first worked pretty well, the only true issue we had was when they were only fighting one person as a group, for instance the mega battle at the end of the adventure with Dr. Kilaton... He didn't hit that great, but when he did, the fight's pretty much over.

The second, I'm having more trouble with telepathy as a whole.  I mean he has a high Int, and he can basically probe anyone he gets close to and find out their secrets, and he does.  The rules for telepathy seem to be very all or nothing, you either succeed, or you don't... I've been having him roll to hit vs. mind control, but I'm looking for something more to show a struggle.  Should the person know they are being probed, is it painful, reactions, etc... It really is very powerful.  They are going through FORCE right now, and I've kept Brother Kinkaid's in-human-ness a secret so far, but it hasn't been easy.  Android Body, +Char, 7 lvl vs. 1st, making it hard to get through, but he is very suspicious as to why he has such a hard time "reading" this supposedly normal guy...

I like it, does B know A is probing him? Any kind of detect roll/indication?  His INT is near 40, so a roll vs. 20 is not any kind of problem.  I've been thinking about having him do some kind of battle via an "Astral" plane with another powerful telepath... I like the idea of them having something like the "Omni" powers I've seen on this board or the Psionics power, where they can basically create whatever they want in a battle there.  Just something I've been considering, nothing on paper...