Psionics Unleashed (PFRPG)

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Tap into the mysteries of psionics, using sheer force of will to allow psionic characters to let loose power to rival any physical force or magical energy. Contained in this book, you will find the secrets of psionics, the magic of the mind.

    Contained within the pages of Psionics Unleashed you will find:
  • Four 20-level psionic base classes: the psion, psychic warrior, soulknife, and wilder
  • Nine psionic prestige classes, including the elocater and the thrallherd
  • Eight psionic races to create new characters, from the blue, to the elan, to the serpentine ophiduan
  • Dozens of psionic feats for psionic characters of all classes
  • Hundreds of psionic powers, ranging from precognition to reality revision

Updated to support the rules of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Psionics Unleashed contains everything needed to easily integrate psionics into any campaign, including characters, items, monsters, and powers.

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Well done adaptation of Psionics

5/5

If you like psionics then this book is a good investment. The authors did a great job of updating the rules and bringing them on par with stuff from paizo.
Even GMs that prefer the classic Sword and Sorcery fantasy theme, can use the content to some extent. Abberations and other alien lifeforms that are "not from this world" can use psionic abilties and class levels to create unusual encounters or give seasoned players something new and challenging.

From changes made to the classes I would like to mention the Soulknife. This class in particular has seen a lot of improvement. Her weapon was made stronger and more versatile, while the many blade skills you can choose from give it unique options that are hard if not impossible to get by otherwise. I play one at the moment and neither outshine the others nor do I just stand behind and watch.

As others have mentioned already the artwork is the only big drawback. It is understandable though, as artwork can be a big cost factor for smaller companies.
Still, the pictures give you a basic idea how things look and at the end of the day that's what really matters.


Bringing Psionics to Pathfinder

5/5

This product is an updated and rebalanced version of psionics from 3.5. If you didn't like the flavor of psionics in 3.5 you probably won't like it here. However, if psionics are your thing, this is a wonderful port from the old system to the new.

The races have been rebalanced to be in line with the Pathfinder races. Classes have also been updated to be in line with the power of pathfinder and have been extensively playtested (and openly so, through Dream Scarred's website). So long as the rules are followed, this is a wonderfully balanced take on psionics.

There's literally nothing bad I have to say about this product, I have used it quite a bit (including playing in a Dark Sun game) and have found no problems what so ever. I guess the closest I could come to a complaint is that there is no new material in this book (by new material I mean classes, races, etc. there are new things such as upgrades to the classes), but this book feels new, given the amount of changes that's went into it (both rebalancing the broken parts of 3.5 (soul knife is now playable even) and in bringing everything up to pathfinder standards).


Golden's Look at Psionics Unleashed

3/5

I'd say something witty, but this is literally the last sentence I wrote for this review. Let's sink our minds into Psionics Unleashed! Or ... something.

The Crunch
In my opinion, Psionics Unleashed is at its greatest when we look at the rules and game mechanics that the book provides. There are four base classes; the four that originally appeared in 3.5's "Psionics Bible," the Expanded Psionics Handbook. Dreamscarred Press did an amazing job here, managing to update all four base classes so that they are competitive with the Core classes without being overpowered. Parts of me are worried that the Psionic Races may be a little too good without any penalty, but they really only shine on a character devoted to Psionics; really, there's nothing in the book that makes playing an elven psion a better choice then, say, an elan psion. However, this can be said about 3.5's psionics system, where the Psionic Races always had a leg up on Psionics. I think that was an unneeded remnant of a time where the Favored Class bonus was designed as a restriction and not a reward, and I would have liked to seen it leave for the so called psionic races. The book includes a baseline Psionics/Magic transparency rule, major overhauls of various powers that were considered "overpowered," clarification on rules, and what a lot of us like to refer to as "the Pazio Touch," in this class, lots of unique options for the base classes. {Rating: 10/10}

The Fluff
Psionics Unleashed is a tad bit weak on the descriptions, true to its Paizo source material. However, where the good folks with the golem have the entirety of the Golarion Campaign Setting to flesh out how Druids and Monks and Wizards fit into their world, Dreamscarred Press doesn't have that luxury. There is a decent guide on to how to incorporate Psionics into a campaign setting, but there isn't much information on what makes a good Psionics Campaign. For example, what would that world look like? What creatures thrive there? Does magic still exist? Besides this, Paizo doesn't need to give much fluff on the core classes because most Pathfinder Players have known and loved the Core 11 for over a decade, since 3.0 was first released. While the Expanded Psionics Handbook is old, less people are familiar with it because it is not core, and as such you want to be as detailed as possible so that the people playing your product get excited to try the Soulknife or the Wilder or the Psychic Warrior or whatever. Dreamscarred Press definetely comes off having placed a lot more effort into the game mechanics and not as much into the game integration with their book. {7/10}

The Appearance
Ugh. THIS is where Psionics Unleashed trips and falls on its face. I believe the author himself made a statement about how art is subjective, and while that may be from my own opinions, to all the forums I have read, to all of the people I have shown my hard copy of the book to, no one has liked Psionics Unleashed's art. There are many awkward facial expressions, it does not integrate well with the book, body parts (such as the toes on the racial line-up) are little better than boots with shade markings that suggest they are individual digits, and the characters appear static and motionless; not fluid and dynamic as you would expect heroes to be. The racial line-up is probably the worst I have ever seen in any source book and part of the art's failure comes from the book itself; it is a very minimalist style, with no background texture and no page boarders. This effectively makes the art stand out like a sore thumb, like it was an afterthought to include it and that there was no real style involved with the book itself. The book is printed in Black and White, which is not a problem; I've seen the PDF, and the art looks even worse in color. The final nail that seals the coffin on Psionics Unleashed's appearances is the sheer number of misspellings, grammatical errors, and oversights in the text. One of the most common in the first edition printing (which I own) is that apparently when writing one of the Prestige Classes, at one point the name of a specific psionic power had to be hyphenated. The book was later altered, and the hyphenated word came back together on the same line. With the hyphen still in it. So now in the book, there is (or perhaps was) this psionic power sitting in the middle of a sentence with a completely unneeded hyphen. {3/10}

Total and Closing Remarks
This book is well done if you're looking for hard rules on converting a Psionics system to Pathfinder. Besides sheer number of cosmetic flaws in this product, it completely lacks its own identity. There is absolutely nothing in Psionics Unleashed that makes one think "Wow, now THIS is Pathfinder Psionics!" This is 3.5 Psionics, updated to the Pathfinder standard. It works and works extremely well, but it is not the end-all-meets-all quality that Pathfinder players know and love from Paizo, and because of this, it is my personal opinion that a Psionics revamp is not at all impossible from Paizo. Psionics Unleashed reigns supreme as Pathfinder's unoffical Psionics System, but one can only wonder for how long it will occupy this throne.

Rules and Mechanics: 10
Descriptions: 7
Editing and Style: 3
Total {20/3 = 6.7 = 3 Stars}

Final Thoughts: Psionics Unleashed is an acceptable buy, even an amazing buy, if you want someone else to convert 3.5's rules for Psionics for you. It offers little else beyond that. If you didn't like 3.5 Psionics, you probably won't like Dreamscarred Press Psionics either.


Fantastic!

4/5

I've had the PDF for a few weeks but I'm a print guy, so I was waiting for my print copy to arrive before I really jumped into this.

Wow!

I come from a printing and publishing background, so production value means a great deal to me. This book made me very happy on that front. It uses a nice, heavy weight cover stock and equally nice interior pages as well. The book has well done, tight perfect binding - overall, it's just a very well produced product.

As for the actual content ... simply put, this is a fantastic book. Others have done a great job detailing and disecting the contents, so I won't bother doing so as well. What I will say is that this book absolutely deserves to be seen as the default Pathfinder psionics book. It's really that good.

Well done Dreamscarred!!!


The Core Psionics system for PFRPG

4/5

This book is a whopping 231 pages long, 1 page front cover, 2 pages editorial, 2 pages ToC, 1 page SRD and 1 page advertisement, leaving 225 pages of content.

I own both the pdf, which is full-color and the dead-tree version, which is b/w.

For this review, I'm going to break my usual format, partly due to me wanting to finish this review this century and not wanting to write a 10+ pages review, so let me first make clear where I'm coming from:

I always loved the idea of psionics. I always hated the implementation. Offense and Defense-modes? Blergh. I'm going to commit a kind of blasphemy and admit to not liking the mindscape-system from the 3.0-days of old. Then came along the Expanded Psionics Handbook... and delivered. Then, I stumbled over Dreamscarred Press and enjoyed their take on the powers of the mind, too.

I've been saddened to hear that Paizo does not plan a psionics-book in the near future, but when the guys at DSP stepped up, I immediately remembered the 3.5-days and hoped that they would be able to bring psionics to PFRPG in style. Their task was monumental: Changing the huge amount of content from the XPH to the pathfinder design philosophy as a little 3pp and still keep it reasonably priced.
In this review, I'm mainly going to take a look at some of the new additions and changes.
The book starts with a section on psionic races that takes up 12 pages. The races are:
-Blue: A goblin sub-race, formerly a monster.
-Dromite: Halfling-sized insect people. I never liked them. Sorry. I just don't.
-Duergar: My friends, the grey dwarves are back and their new write-up rocks!
-Elan: A kind a creepy modified race, chosen from other races and transformed to something not quite human anymore. I liked them in 3.5, and I still like them here.
-Half-giant: Another race I never considered too cool. I prefer RiP's Jotun for the fluff-angle and I never really got why they have psionic abilities.
-Maenad: I hated these in 3.5. Thanks to an excellent article in KQ 9, I added them to just about any setting I play. Go check it out, if you haven't already and be thankful they've been converted to PFRPG.
-Ophiduan: A reptilian race. Not sure what to think of them. Mainly because I still have the old Ophidians and Yuan-Ti in my mind.
-Xeph: Ahuman-like race without pupils. They are ok, I guess.
Chapter 2 details the base classes and boy, have they been streamlined!
-Psions: Psions get to choose from the disciplines and an optional generalist choice and get special benefits according to their selection, further emphasizing the difference between the specialisations.
-Psychic Warrior: They get slightly more PSP and warrior paths to choose from, making them more versatile, too.
-Soulknife: Finally. Finally someone has taken pity on this poor unfortunate class and given it it's rightful place. Badass, cool and FINALLY balanced and no longer the monks weak little brother, this write-up is just as versatile as the first two classes, not only adding power to the class, but also options. Awesome work, guys.
-Wilder: And a second "finally!" from my mouth: Wilders, the chaotic users of natural talents, have finally been reworked so you actually WANT to build one. Where before they were the Psion's stupid little brothers and sisters, they are now a versatile, genuinely unique class. Excellent work, DSP! I considered this class unsalvageable.

The classes take up 18 pages.

Chapter 3 features discussions of skills and feats for psionics and new skill-usages. The default method is that e.g. Use Magic Device can be used to use psionic devices as well, dispel magic affects psionics, too etc. A minor rules change I welcomed was that obtaining psionic focus does not require a roll any more, just concentration. At low levels, it was just annoying to wait for the psion to make the DC 20 check in 3.5., so good riddance. We also get 69 psionic feats, many of them updated from PFRPG. One update I didn't get, though, was Cloak Dance - while a cool feat, I already though this general feat would have been better in another book, but oh well. The feats are well-balanced, balance-issues from 3.5 have been streamlined, I'm content with this book. This chapter also takes up 18 pages.

Chapter 4 (14 pages) details the general rules of psionics in a concise and easy to grasp way - good for newcomers to the powers of the mind. The chapter also thankfully features notes on the "Psionics are different"-approach I personally prefer to the powers of the mind. Dodged a bullet there, DSP! ;)

Chapter 5 is almost half of the book, 86 pages of psionic powers. Enough to provide a huge amount of balanced options. Insta-kill abilities have been streamlined to adhere to PFRPG-design philosophy etc. Nothing to complain, apart from: I want MORE!

Chapter 6 (20 pages) details Prestige Classes, to be precise updated versions of the XPH-classes. The Illithid slayer has been converted to a slayer of psionic creatures in general. On another note: The Pyrokineticist HAS a save-or-die ability, however, it's element-based and his lvl 10-capstone ability, so I'm cool with that.

Chapter 7 details psionic item on 28 pages and, while all-time-classics like the Annulus are here, I would have loved this section to be expanded upon.

Chapter 8 updates the critters from the XPH (sans the Neothelid - @#&$-copyright reasons!) to PFRPG. The artwork is oriented along the artwork of the XPH, a nice nod.

The book closes with a glossary.

Conclusion:
I like psionics and I loved some of the 3.5 DSP-books and, to put it bluntly, they have achieved quite a feat in bringing this book together. Layout is nice and apart from one page that is blank but for one feat, the space is well-used. It can be expected that some typos creep into a book of this size, but they are thankfully very few and far between and none of them hampered my understanding of the material presented or its usability. This excellent quality does not entirely stretch towards the art-side, though: There is a plethora of art-styles assembled here, from comic-style color to some pictures that are a bit anime-like and classic b/w-artwork. While not bad per se, they give the book a kind of disjointed feeling that is thankfully not matched by the content. On the content side: I got, what I paid for: An updated, great core system for psionics I'll be using in the years to come that finally enables me to update our main-campaign (which has been on a halt since switching to PFRPG, we playing other characters since then) to PFRPG. Thus, due to the minor glitches and artwork problems, I should probably rate this 4.5. stars. Unfortunately I'm a long time follower of DSP and had high hopes indeed for e.g. the brilliant Morphean-class, sequestral and mantra-feats and the like to be included as well. They are advanced options, I get that, but I'd have loved to see them nevertheless. My final verdict will thus be a straight 4 stars. Here's to hoping we'll get more material soon and that some of the material gets updated. And what about blending with the new APG-classes? There's much to be done, folks at DSP! Come on, get in on! ;)


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Kvantum wrote:
Razz wrote:

I noticed some new powers in the book. Do you have a list of the brand new ones off-hand? Or will I have to gloss over and see which ones are new and which were ported from XPH?

Thanks.

AFAIR, there aren't any new powers, just a whole bunch of renamed ones. They wanted to get away from "Psionic XYZ", where XYZ is one of a number of spells. Greater Teleport, for example. It's now Greater Psychoport under these rules. It can be confusing at first, but it lets Dreamscarred's authors (both of them!) adjust and alter the powers to tailor them specifically for psionics games without the caster classes complaining "well, why don't I get those extra options?"

Actually, I noticed that, but there are some new ones.

Unravel Psionics is one of them. And I think Cosmic Awareness and Psychosis might be two more.

Dreamscarred Press

Cosmic Awareness and Psychosis are both existing powers that were renamed.

Removed / Renamed Powers


Ok, so Unravel Psionics is the only new one then?

Dark Archive

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Razz wrote:
Ok, so Unravel Psionics is the only new one then?

Well, "new" as in not in the 3.5 Psionics Handbook, yes. It is just essentially Psionic Mage's Disjunction, though.

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Unravel Psionics isn't the only new power in the book, but I'm afraid I don't have a list handy of what all the new powers were.

Dreamscarred Press

Finally back in stock!


jeremy.smith wrote:

Finally back in stock!

Just did what I could to fix that for you.


Curious to know why most of my artwork is missing from the pdf. I notice in all my pathfinder products missing letters in the titles probably as a way to track file sharing i assume but the artwork? really?

I apologize if this has already been answered but I found nothing using the search bar.

Also a huge improvement would be page and word links through out the document like on the paizo products its my favorite feature and I'm spoiled by it

otherwise great conversion, i was very worried through out much of the play test because it seemed you wanted to kill off the versatility of the powers themselves on top of the casters limited powers but I see its not the case

**** (+1* withheld due to what I CAN see of the artwork but for the price of the book cant really complain)

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Edward Griswold, Jr. wrote:

Curious to know why most of my artwork is missing from the pdf. I notice in all my pathfinder products missing letters in the titles probably as a way to track file sharing i assume but the artwork? really?

I apologize if this has already been answered but I found nothing using the search bar.

Also a huge improvement would be page and word links through out the document like on the paizo products its my favorite feature and I'm spoiled by it

otherwise great conversion, i was very worried through out much of the play test because it seemed you wanted to kill off the versatility of the powers themselves on top of the casters limited powers but I see its not the case

**** (+1* withheld due to what I CAN see of the artwork but for the price of the book cant really complain)

This is news to me - I've not heard of anyone else having problem seeing the artwork...


My softcover arrived in the mail today. Happy to finally have this in my hot hands. :)

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Edward Griswold, Jr. wrote:

Curious to know why most of my artwork is missing from the pdf. I notice in all my pathfinder products missing letters in the titles probably as a way to track file sharing i assume but the artwork? really?

I apologize if this has already been answered but I found nothing using the search bar.

Also a huge improvement would be page and word links through out the document like on the paizo products its my favorite feature and I'm spoiled by it

otherwise great conversion, i was very worried through out much of the play test because it seemed you wanted to kill off the versatility of the powers themselves on top of the casters limited powers but I see its not the case

**** (+1* withheld due to what I CAN see of the artwork but for the price of the book cant really complain)

That's a problem with your PDF reader, not anything Dreamscarred did. What OS and what PDF reader software are you using? Try reinstalling or even a different reader altogether (for example, Foxit PDF reader instead of Adobe) and see if I'm right.


Edward Griswold, Jr. wrote:
Curious to know why most of my artwork is missing from the pdf. I notice in all my pathfinder products missing letters in the titles probably as a way to track file sharing i assume but the artwork? really?

We've made no implementations to "track filesharers" to be honest and this seems more, as someone pointed out, to be a problem with either an old Adobe Reader (we've noticed a few inconsistencies), or a third party PDF reader. I personally have no problems with Acrobat 9 or any of the Linux-readers I've tried, but we've also heard of a few small problems with people using a Mac?

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Jeremy, how would you figure the powers known and power points possessed for a psychic warrior5/metamind10/war mind 10? :D

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Edward Griswold, Jr. wrote:
Curious to know why most of my artwork is missing from the pdf. I notice in all my pathfinder products missing letters in the titles probably as a way to track file sharing i assume but the artwork? really?

I suspect both of the issues you're talking about come from using Preview under OS X 10.6. Try Adobe Reader instead, and I think you'll find both of those problems will go away.

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Marc Radle wrote:

Are you still on target doing theupdated second printing of the print book with the various corrections and/or errata in mid-February?

Thanks!

I thought I remembered seeing a question like this asked. Sorry for taking a week to respond, it got lost in the shuffle.

Not currently, no. The changes have resulted in a fair bit of text shifting that's going to take at least a few days to correct, review, correct, review, etc.

At this point, I'm expecting we can get the updated PDF out in late February, but the updated printing, probably not until mid-March.

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Justin Sluder wrote:
Jeremy, how would you figure the powers known and power points possessed for a psychic warrior5/metamind10/war mind 10? :D

Well, currently, there are no rules for characters beyond level 20 unless you use 3.5 rules...

So, essentially, you're at level 20/20 powers known / power points.

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My copy has finally arrived, and I'm liking it so far.

I do have a query, however. The book uses the 3.5 XPH version of the Intellect Devourer, whereas I was hoping to see the one in the Pathfinder Bestiary converted to psionics instead. Was there any particular reason for not using the Pathfinder one as the starting point?

(The Bestiary one has 2 more HD, and better ability scores and resistances.)


jeremy.smith wrote:
At this point, I'm expecting we can get the updated PDF out in late February, but the updated printing, probably not until mid-March.

I haven't bought a copy of the book yet, but is is on tap for next month. How can I make sure that when I do buy it, I get the 2nd printing?

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Nice review End. I see you have been busy again.


Thanks, D_M! I've been busy indeed - more to come in the next couple of days. :)


Twin Agate Dragons wrote:
jeremy.smith wrote:
At this point, I'm expecting we can get the updated PDF out in late February, but the updated printing, probably not until mid-March.
I haven't bought a copy of the book yet, but is is on tap for next month. How can I make sure that when I do buy it, I get the 2nd printing?

We will announce that an update has been made. Each PDF copy will also be updated free of charge.


Stormhierta wrote:
Twin Agate Dragons wrote:
jeremy.smith wrote:
At this point, I'm expecting we can get the updated PDF out in late February, but the updated printing, probably not until mid-March.
I haven't bought a copy of the book yet, but is is on tap for next month. How can I make sure that when I do buy it, I get the 2nd printing?
We will announce that an update has been made. Each PDF copy will also be updated free of charge.

So, how do we go about getting the update once it's released?

Dreamscarred Press

Spiral_Ninja wrote:
Stormhierta wrote:
Twin Agate Dragons wrote:
jeremy.smith wrote:
At this point, I'm expecting we can get the updated PDF out in late February, but the updated printing, probably not until mid-March.
I haven't bought a copy of the book yet, but is is on tap for next month. How can I make sure that when I do buy it, I get the 2nd printing?
We will announce that an update has been made. Each PDF copy will also be updated free of charge.

So, how do we go about getting the update once it's released?

Simply download it again from whichever storefront you purchased it at. When we update it, we update it at all storefronts (here, RPGNow, DriveThruRPG, Dreamscarred Press, etc). Most of these storefronts automatically alert you that the files have been updated.


jeremy.smith wrote:
Spiral_Ninja wrote:
Stormhierta wrote:
Twin Agate Dragons wrote:
jeremy.smith wrote:
At this point, I'm expecting we can get the updated PDF out in late February, but the updated printing, probably not until mid-March.
I haven't bought a copy of the book yet, but is is on tap for next month. How can I make sure that when I do buy it, I get the 2nd printing?
We will announce that an update has been made. Each PDF copy will also be updated free of charge.

So, how do we go about getting the update once it's released?

Simply download it again from whichever storefront you purchased it at. When we update it, we update it at all storefronts (here, RPGNow, DriveThruRPG, Dreamscarred Press, etc). Most of these storefronts automatically alert you that the files have been updated.

Thanks, Jeremy


So is an "Advanced Psionics Guide" planned for the future? As in what Complete Psionic was to the Expanded Psionics Handbook? (only better than WotC's, of course :D)

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Razz wrote:
So is an "Advanced Psionics Guide" planned for the future? As in what Complete Psionic was to the Expanded Psionics Handbook? (only better than WotC's, of course :D)

Already in active development and we're doing it as an Open Playtest.

You can follow the thread here which contains links to just about all the material in the Alpha.

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Fangdelicious wrote:

I ordered the bundle last week and got the PDF. LOVE IT.

One question though, does anyone know if there is a Psionic Power list DB in a table or Excel format like the spells are on the d20 pfsrd.com site?
Link:Spells DB

Having the list in this format make it soooo much easier to find what I am looking for since I can filter by class, school, etc.

I went ahead and put together something on my own. This spreadsheet has a list of all the Psionic Powers from Psionics Unleashed with all of the info *except* the full power descriptions. (If someone knows a good way to extract them from the PDF without having to copy/paste them into Excel, let me know and I'll add them)

I posted it to Google Docs. I will also try to post in on the Dreamscarred messageboards as well. Feel free to repost it wherever you like.

Psionic Powers DB


For those who might be intrested we have released a Psionics Unleashed Compatible product (with the logo even!)

Faces of the Tarnished Souk: Elspeth Black, Executive Officer of Blackblade (PFRPG) for $1.99

Special thank to Dreamscarred Press for making this possible.

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Rite Publishing wrote:

For those who might be intrested we have released a Psionics Unleashed Compatible product (with the logo even!)

Faces of the Tarnished Souk: Elspeth Black, Executive Officer of Blackblade (PFRPG) for $1.99

Special thank to Dreamscarred Press for making this possible.

Saw it. Coolio. Amazes me how many 3PP are working with Paizo to generate the best products for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.


joela wrote:
Saw it. Coolio. Amazes me how many 3PP are working with Paizo to generate the best products for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

It's easy for 3PP because Dreamscarred Press is great group to work with and Psionics Unleashed is a great product.

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LMPjr007 wrote:
joela wrote:
Saw it. Coolio. Amazes me how many 3PP are working with Paizo to generate the best products for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
It's easy for 3PP because Dreamscarred Press is great group to work with and Psionics Unleashed is a great product.

+1! I think you used their psionics stuff in at least one of your products. Obsidian?


joela wrote:
+1! I think you used their psionics stuff in at least one of your products. Obsidian?

Actually we have done two Dreamscarred Press Psionics Unleashed Compatible products: Secret Societies of NeoExodus: Section Omega (PFRPG) and NeoExodus Chronicles: Psionic Cavian. I am still debating if we are going to do a psionic suppliment for Obsidian Twilight.

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LMPjr007 wrote:
joela wrote:
+1! I think you used their psionics stuff in at least one of your products. Obsidian?
Actually we have done two Dreamscarred Press Psionics Unleashed Compatible products: Secret Societies of NeoExodus: Section Omega (PFRPG) and NeoExodus Chronicles: Psionic Cavian. I am still debating if we are going to do a psionic suppliment for Obsidian Twilight.

First of all, thankyou for the kind words. We are happy to collaborate with other 3PPs putting out quality material and we'd naturally love to see something in Obsidian Twilight using our psionic material, but only if it makes thematic sense for the setting and the world.

We're happy to see all these companies - LPJr, Alluria (doing Waves of Thought), Rite Publishing and SGS - working off of our rules to create new and awesome content for all Pathfinder gamers. :)


Pardon my asking but is this more or less going to be the "official" Pathfinder psionics book?

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Eric Hinkle wrote:
Pardon my asking but is this more or less going to be the "official" Pathfinder psionics book?

Paizo has no current plans (that I am aware of based upon postings by various Paizo employees) to do a Psionics book. That is not to say that they might not do one in the future, but if they did, it has been strongly hinted that it would not resemble the Expanded Psionics Handbook, nor the general system that the XPH utilized, and would instead focus on more "traditional" psionics. James Jacobs posted a few times about it in various threads when he was asked the question about psionics.

Currently, it is the de facto psionic rulebook for Pathfinder, because nobody else has put out psionic rules, but it is not endorsed by Paizo as the "official" psionics book for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Hope that answers your question without being too long-winded. :)


jeremy.smith wrote:

Paizo has no current plans (that I am aware of based upon postings by various Paizo employees) to do a Psionics book. That is not to say that they might not do one in the future, but if they did, it has been strongly hinted that it would not resemble the Expanded Psionics Handbook, nor the general system that the XPH utilized, and would instead focus on more "traditional" psionics. James Jacobs posted a few times about it in various threads when he was asked the question about psionics.

Currently, it is the de facto psionic rulebook for Pathfinder, because nobody else has put out psionic rules, but it is not endorsed by Paizo as the "official" psionics book for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Hope that answers your question without being too long-winded. :)

Well it has been endorsed by several 3PP publishers as being the "official" Pathfinder psionic rules by make products using it.

Dreamscarred Press

LMPjr007 wrote:
Well it has been endorsed by several 3PP publishers as being the "official" Pathfinder psionic rules by make products using it.

This is true.

LPJ Design, Super Genius Games, and Rite Publishing have all released Psionics Unleashed compatible products, and a few other publishers are working on other products, as well. :)


Well, I will be buying the Psionics Unleased books... ~sighs~ When I get the spare cash.

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Random FYI: A large portion of Psionics Unleashed should be going live today on d20pfsrd.com.

Done:

  • Chapter 1: Races
  • Chapter 2: Classes
  • Chapter 3: Skills and Feats
  • Chapter 6: Prestige Classes

Remaining to do:

  • Chapter 4: Psionics
  • Chapter 5: Powers
  • Chapter 7: Psionic Items
  • Chapter 8: Psionic Monsters
  • Review/Update/Correct links
  • Final Review

Unfortunately, I am driving 22 hours starting early tomorrow morning for a family trip to Disney World and will only sporadically be able to work on wrapping up the remaining chapters. Unless someone else steps up to wrap up the remaining work it will likely not be finished until the week of 11th-16th some time.

Scarab Sages

Eric Hinkle wrote:
Pardon my asking but is this more or less going to be the "official" Pathfinder psionics book?

It is the belief of Super Genius Games that Paizo won't ever be doing a psionics book using this or particularly similar system. (They may well do their own psionics/psychic system someday, but I believe it'll be different enough to not overlap significantly). I doubt anyone else wants to take the time and effort Dreamscarred has put into Psionics Unleashed just to create a competing book.

So when we want to use Psionics in our Pathfinder-compatible products, we'll be using Psionics Unleashed. That doesn't make it "official," but I think it's the de facto standard. (And a great book, to boot.)

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d20pfsrd.com wrote:

Random FYI:

<snip> Unless someone else steps up to wrap up the remaining work it will likely not be finished until the week of 11th-16th some time.

If it helps with Chapter 5, here's a Spreadsheet I posted to Google Docs with all the Powers. It has everything except the full description in it. I modeled it off of the Spell database on your site. I emailed it to the contact email on the site earlier this week to see if it would be useful to you.

Psionics Unleashed spreadsheet.

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If you're "Stewpndous" yep, I got it. I just haven't had a chance to respond yet since I've been bustin' tail trying to wrap this book up. Your spreadsheet will certainly be helpful :)

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d20pfsrd.com wrote:
If you're "Stewpndous" yep, I got it. I just haven't had a chance to respond yet since I've been bustin' tail trying to wrap this book up. Your spreadsheet will certainly be helpful :)

Yup that's me. Happy to share the fruits of my labor and contribute in some small way.

By the way, if you know of an easy way (aside from copy/pasting each one) to extract all the full descriptions of all the powers, let me know and I'll be happy to help further.

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Fangdelicious wrote:
d20pfsrd.com wrote:
If you're "Stewpndous" yep, I got it. I just haven't had a chance to respond yet since I've been bustin' tail trying to wrap this book up. Your spreadsheet will certainly be helpful :)
Yup that's me. By the way, if you know of an easy way (aside from copy/pasting each one) to extract all the full descriptions of all the powers, let me know and I'll be happy to help further.

We technically already have all of the text fully extracted and linked. We have a perl script that automatically pulls the text out of the pdf's and then auto links the key words. We just have to now take that linked text and create the pages on the site and then format them to look right etc. However, your table will be helpful because I can copy and paste from it and it will retain the tabular format for building the one big table of feats/powers etc. The biggest time sync is reconstructing the tables especially the bigger ones.

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d20pfsrd.com wrote:
Fangdelicious wrote:
d20pfsrd.com wrote:
If you're "Stewpndous" yep, I got it. I just haven't had a chance to respond yet since I've been bustin' tail trying to wrap this book up. Your spreadsheet will certainly be helpful :)
We technically already have all of the text fully extracted and linked. We have a perl script that automatically pulls the text out of the pdf's and then auto links the key words. We just have to now take that linked text and create the pages on the site and then format them to look right etc. However, your table will be helpful because I can copy and paste from it and it will retain the tabular format for building the one big table of feats/powers etc. The biggest time sync is reconstructing the tables especially the bigger ones.

That makes me wish I knew how to create Perl scripts. There are all kinds of things that I would love to extract from PDFs :)

EDIT: Is that script something that is commercially available, or is it something you created yourself?

Lantern Lodge

jeremy.smith wrote:
Marc Radle wrote:

Do you know if and/or when a second printing will be done which incorporates all this errata? I'm still planning on buying the print edition but it sounds like, unless I also spring for the PDF, I might want to wait for a second printing.

Thanks!

Due to the time involved in updating the printed book, it will be done probably in mid-February. The PDF downloads will be updated sooner than the printed book for obvious reasons. So far, the errata fits on a single page, and for the most part are fairly minor changes.

You can see the full list of errata here.

Hi Jeremy,

As Psionics Unleashed appears to be on backorder once again, I was wondering whether the next shipment to arrive in Paizo's warehouse will contain the errata incorporated into the printed version?

Cheers,
DarkWhite

Dreamscarred Press

DarkWhite wrote:

Hi Jeremy,

As Psionics Unleashed appears to be on backorder once again, I was wondering whether the next shipment to arrive in Paizo's warehouse will contain the errata incorporated into the printed version?

Cheers,
DarkWhite

We still have quite a bit of stock to burn through in our warehouse (which we'll be sending to Paizo this week to get the book off backorder) that is from the original version of the files.

However, we're currently in the process of updating the document with all the errata, so it should be relatively soon, it's just that little things keep cropping up and when we do it, we want to do it right.


jeremy.smith wrote:
DarkWhite wrote:

Hi Jeremy,

As Psionics Unleashed appears to be on backorder once again, I was wondering whether the next shipment to arrive in Paizo's warehouse will contain the errata incorporated into the printed version?

Cheers,
DarkWhite

We still have quite a bit of stock to burn through in our warehouse (which we'll be sending to Paizo this week to get the book off backorder) that is from the original version of the files.

However, we're currently in the process of updating the document with all the errata, so it should be relatively soon, it's just that little things keep cropping up and when we do it, we want to do it right.

Given the response of people snapping up this product, you got to be pleased that there's a serious hunger for psionics in folks' game settings than what is usually stereotyped as a niche product that allegedly doesn't have that much of a fan base.

Congrats on tapping that market and having others come board to expand from it as the current de facto standard. :)

Dreamscarred Press

Urizen wrote:

Given the response of people snapping up this product, you got to be pleased that there's a serious hunger for psionics in folks' game settings than what is usually stereotyped as a niche product that allegedly doesn't have that much of a fan base.

Congrats on tapping that market and having others come board to expand from it as the current de facto standard. :)

Thanks! Andreas and I were pretty sure we'd have a certain quantity of "guaranteed" sales with this book, but we never expected the level of sales that we've had. It exceeded either of our expectations in that regard - by a large margin, and pleased would be an understatement.

The projects we're able to do now - especially ones that are rather capital-intensive (such as completely freelancing out adventures, paying for writing, cartography, graphics, etc) - were things we didn't expect to be able to do for quite some time. Instead, we're now able to have multiple projects in flight, using our success to get some of those things we've always wanted to do done.

It's definitely been an exciting 3 1/2 months. :)

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