Mailanka's Musings

  It's not all been Fun and Space Bestiaries at Mailanka's Musings; I still have a wiki to run, after all, and promises to fulfill t...

 As one of Christopher Rice's patrons , I can participate in a regular poll where he releases on of his patreon specials to his blog.  I...

  I've been pretty busy behind the scenes working on Undercity Noir; the PCs are beginning to come together, but I feel like I'm sti...

 "Did we ever decide what Psi-Tech was available in Psi-Wars?" "It varies from tradition to tradition, from world to world....

The more I’ve messed with Psi-Wars, the more obvious it is to me that psionics is different from the Force. The Force is closer to magic: A ...

This month, Psionic Powers squeaked past the Call to Adventure for the Rule Collation poll.  Thus, I've updated the wiki to include a co...

"The Force guides my controls!" ―Delta-7 pilot Star Wars often discusses the fact that Jedi made amazing pilots, and during ...

Another month, another State of the Patreon.  Where are we as 2017 closes out? November, for views, was a disaster.  I haven't been th...

It's Patreon Friday! On Saturday!  How unusual!  I've been busy (and ill) and I've needed to re-prioritize some things, but fo...

GURPS offers up the Esoteric Medicine skill for those who want an alternative to the standard Physician skill, but what does it actually m...

In a world full of psionic powers, characters will seek to protect themselves from that power.  Mundane countermeasures (like Mind Block) ex...

Psionic Styles focus primarily on exploring a few specific or interrelated concepts within the world of psionic powers.  Most should offer s...

Thaumatology: Magic Styles GURPS Thaumatology: Magical Styles is probably my favorite book out of the Thaumatology line (other than the...

Pyramid #3-69 contains one of Christoper Rice's articles, Mind and Body, which details 3 psionic martial arts.  Those could certainly f...

If we're going to have a psionic template, and psions need to fear Anti-Psi characters, then we should have  Anti-Psi characters. The ...

I find it difficult to build a "generic" Psion template for Psi-Wars because it's so tied to the Action genre, so we need to k...

So, now that we've defined Psionics and Communion and how they'll work with Psi-Wars, we should offer players the chance to explore ...

I've put off building characters for this because, if I'm honest, I find it intimidating.  Mainly, Communion doesn't really work...

I've largely already addressed psionics in an Action framework in each individual post.  We can largely see where they fit into the abo...

The principle of the Paths of Communion, this idea that you can sort of bring your life and your deeds into resonance with the global percep...