Heightened Mental Abilities: The character has 1d4+2 special abilities from the following list:

• Photographic Memory: The character remembers anything he has seen or read.
• Sense of Direction: The character always knows what direction they're traveling in.
• Absolute Sense of Time: The character always knows what time it is, and how much time has passed.
• Speed Reader: The character reads at an incredibly high rate of speed. GMs should be flexible with this, as characters in comics, and other media, are routinely depicted as reading massive volumes of material in short periods of time. How much of the information the character will retain is open.
• Universal Translator: The character can read and/or understand any written language. The exact length of time it will take him to do so, is left up to the GM.
• Lightning Calculator: The character can complete mathematical calculations at a superhuman rate of speed (ex. Mr. Spock.

John wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2010 at 7:04pm:


I can probably work up a few more.

How about the ability to actually pre-calculate outcome? Like if a situation arises, maybe a percentage to successfully discern the outcome before it actually happens?

That sounds good, also it could be only used perhaps once a day also. It would be quite an overused power if left unchecked I suppose.

Decipher's CODA system has a couple of Edges (sort of like powers or abilities) that are very similar (the awareness of time and direction); I think Star Trek has the awareness of time and Lord of the Rings has the awareness of direction.

I've been recently reading through a really cool game system called Into the Shadows that I'm gearing up to start playing with my son and daughter.  It's essentially West End Games' d6 system (like for their Star Wars RPG) and it was adapted for a modern horror/adventure genre by Craig Griswold (of V&V HQ fame).  He did an amazing job of compiling a couple hundred pages of monsters, vehicles, weapons, etc. that allow one to game in the action-adventure setting, anything from Cthulu to X-Files to Die Hard.  In it, he has a whole host of psionic powers and abilities, and many of them are similar to what you've listed.

It would be difficult to name them all, but the main groupings are Block, Clairvoyance, Control, Precognition, Psychometry, Pyrokinesis, Regulate, Spirit, Telekinesis, and Telepathy.

If anyone wants me to, I could list all of them.  Or, alternately, anyone could look up the game (it's free online) and turn to p. 48-58 in the rules.

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