Babylon 5 campaign: some questions

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Lainier

I heard 3rd ed psionics were too powerful.

Compared to what? If psi is the only source of special powers in the game it mostly doesn't matter. Most of the complaints were about Telekinesis anyway,

The nice thing was that there was a Telepathy power level that was conceptually close to B5's. It regulated both range of the powers, damage of the telepathic attacks and strength of the Mind Shield.

The Mind Shield part in particular was nice. The 4e power called Mind Shield is really only a limited bonus to Will. To match the effects of some settings you'd need to add in other stuff such as "DR v. Telepathic Attacks only" and maybe more.

Incidentally, in your last post many of the things attributed to Zorg were actually said by me.

[Lainier]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

in your last post many of the things attributed to Zorg were actually said by me.

Sorry, I had problems writing the post. Fixed!

[Plasmabunny]

Regarding Psis:

Perhaps lining up Psi power with a levelled advantage is the wrong way to go about designing it. You may be better off deciding on a character's P level, and then just adding advantages and talents based off of what the P scale dictates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi_Corps#The_P_scale