psionic

[CosmicGamer]

You do not need institute training to enter a career

How/where/when have you been handling the PSI characteristic assignment for a character?

I believe you are trying to write a program? I can understand the issue. Hard to hard code something that is done off the cuff.

1) Based on events during chargen. Penalties are imposed on the Psi strength characteristic roll if it isn't the first term.

2) Just like any other career, the player says "I want to try to qualify for a Psion career". Roll for Psi strength and Qual. This could be the characters first career or their 3rd, just like any other career. Penalties are imposed on the Psi strength characteristic roll if it isn't the first term.

If the program is set up for careers to be selected via user input, the user shouldn't select Psion without GM approval - just like the game. If the program has random career selection and random race selection I'd say Imperials should not have the option for the Psion career unless some event triggers it and Zho probably could be left as random. Each race and area of space may be different - this is part of what makes up the GMs decision on how Psioncs is treated. Don't know if your program somehow selects careers based on characteristics - high Edu and Int more likely to be scholar, high Soc noble, high Psi Psion career...

3) It's part of the game. "I want to seek out a Psionic Institute". You wouldn't make this part of a chargen program.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

If the program is set up for careers to be selected via user input, the user shouldn't select Psion without GM approval - just like the game.

My program has a flag that I set to tell the computer that a GM is hand-waving over the usual code stuff.

What it does is it takes the highly improbable "My character finds a Psionic Institute and pays Cr5,000 to get PSI tested!" and triggers that event at the beginning of CharGen. So the character will have a PSI value of 2 - 12.

Not all characters get trained though (have a Psion career). Most do, but Psion is not always a first career. The character can be drafted into the Army or Marines first before eventually being accepted into a Psion career. Characters get more psionic skills if Psion is their first career (2-3 skills, 4 if they're lucky). And just 1 psionic skill (2, if they're lucky) if they enter a Psion career later in life.

This could improve slightly after I finish coding promotions for the Psion career. I just have the events and mishaps coded so far.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

So is there any PSI aging (every 4 terms) in Mongoose Traveller?

Also, what is your favorite movie that had psionics in it?

 

[locarno24]

If you're using PSI, I'd consider it a mental stat rather than physical (for obvious reasons), so it wouldn't really get affected by ageing rolls.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

If you're using PSI, I'd consider it a mental stat rather than physical (for obvious reasons), so it wouldn't really get affected by ageing rolls.

That's how I've been using it so far. I have not opened the Psion book yet, to see what all the answers are. I'm just going by what the Core Rulebook says, and getting used to the rules there before I look at what the advanced rules show.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

For Vargr, how do you handle the notable values mentioned in Alien Module 2? Are +2, +4, +1 always in effect for notable psionics? Meaning can they push a Psionic Strength value above 16? Or does the strength get brought down to 16 after any notable values are added?

 

[alex_greene]

For Vargr, how do you handle the notable values mentioned in Alien Module 2? Are +2, +4, +1 always in effect for notable psionics? Meaning can they push a Psionic Strength value above 16? Or does the strength get brought down to 16 after any notable values are added?

If a species has a normal characteristic range of 2D6, and a racial maximum of 15, i.e. 12 plus 3, the Notable value is added to that - so the racial maxima would be 16, 17 or 19 depending on the value of the Notable DM.

 

[Mithras]

Next to the photocopier today, I saw a sheet at the school I work at. I could have sworn it said: Psionics Testing Children Aged 8-9, with a complete series of boxes to tick. But I am quite ill, and have been thinking about this thread, I looked twice and it said Phonics Testing ...

 

[alex_greene]

Next to the photocopier today, I saw a sheet at the school I work at. I could have sworn it said: Psionics Testing Children Aged 8-9, with a complete series of boxes to tick. But I am quite ill, and have been thinking about this thread, I looked twice and it said Phonics Testing ...

LOL Welcome to Zhodane!

 

[SSWarlock]

Also, what is your favorite movie that had psionics in it?

"Powder", followed by "Firestarter".

 

[Egil Skallagrimsson]

Next to the photocopier today, I saw a sheet at the school I work at. I could have sworn it said: Psionics Testing Children Aged 8-9, with a complete series of boxes to tick. But I am quite ill, and have been thinking about this thread, I looked twice and it said Phonics Testing ...

The Tavrchedl, nothing compared to Ofsted ...