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In the distant future, when magic and technology have blurred the lines of what can be accomplished and travel among the stars is a reality, the powers of the mind have flourished. Introducing the Psionics Guide (working title), a psionics system for the Starfinder RPG!
The Psionics Guide will include the psionics rules for the Starfinder RPG, as well as new races, classes, feats, archetypes, and more! This isn’t just Psionics Unleashed for Starfinder. We’ve evaluated every piece of psionics to determine what fits in the game and what needs to be changed.
After the Psionics Guide, we plan to release new creatures and enemies for the Starfinder RPG, including new psionic monsters. Other possible supplements include additional new player options like races, classes, feats, powers, and items, as well as adventures and monsters. Psionic space ships and other vessels are being considered for later supplements
At Dreamscarred Press, we try not to give a timeline, as we don’t work on this full time, so we do not yet have an ETA for when these books will be available. However, we plan to run our playtests in public to get player and community feedback. We have found that public playtests make the products better and we intend to continue that tradition.
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Our bodies and minds are ready :D
Whoo-hoo!
I am absolutely looking forward to this. I was going to homebrew-convert the psionic classes for my own campaign system/sector, but I may wait for this instead.
Nice, looking forward to this!
I am excited for this.
Intrigued.
In the distant future, when magic and technology have blurred the lines of what can be accomplished and travel among the stars is a reality, the powers of the mind have flourished. Introducing the Psionics Guide (working title), a psionics system for the Starfinder RPG!
The Psionics Guide will include the psionics rules for the Starfinder RPG, as well as new races, classes, feats, archetypes, and more! This isn’t just Psionics Unleashed for Starfinder. We’ve evaluated every piece of psionics to determine what fits in the game and what needs to be changed.
After the Psionics Guide, we plan to release new creatures and enemies for the Starfinder RPG, including new psionic monsters. Other possible supplements include additional new player options like races, classes, feats, powers, and items, as well as adventures and monsters. Psionic space ships and other vessels are being considered for later supplements
At Dreamscarred Press, we try not to give a timeline, as we don’t work on this full time, so we do not yet have an ETA for when these books will be available. However, we plan to run our playtests in public to get player and community feedback. We have found that public playtests make the products better and we intend to continue that tradition.
I'm liking it, I'm liking it. If this is available for pre-order, I'll certainly do so. Thank you for the support of a good game, Jeremy!
I like this idea a lot. Can't wait for it to come out!
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Sounds great, but...
Didn't the CRB say that "magic" was pretty universal, including psionics?
Yes. However, some people, myself included, like the point system from the Psionics Unleashed material over a "different form of magic."
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I personally have always liked the Psychic Warrior. The current version already feels 'Starfinderish' with it's selection of paths, which each SF core class seems to have variations unique to that class. I'll be converting some of the Psionics Unleashed classes, especially psychic warrior, to SF rules anyhow, just in case they're not updated/included in the new product.
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Yes. However, some people, myself included, like the point system from the Psionics Unleashed material over a "different form of magic."Sounds great, but...
Didn't the CRB say that "magic" was pretty universal, including psionics?
I'm included in that particular bracket. Psi works with Sci-Fi a lot better than magic does. Even though my first crew (players in Starfinder) have magic wielding characters, I plan on introducing psionics at the first opportunity.
Will you be converting Ultimate Psionics to Starfinder, or starting from the ground up?
I would love to get a preview or a chance to collaborate with you guys and see if there are any tie-ins we could do with the upcoming Gravity Age: Bioware and Mutants Emporium. I think the Dreamscarred brand of psionics is likely a good fit for the future Gravity Age Campaign setting.
Also, off topic but something I'm dying to know: are there any plans for a spiritual successor to Path of War for Starfinder?
Nothing immediately, no. It would be some time before we'd be at a spot to tackle that. It requires a level of system mastery that takes time to develop.
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Will you be converting Ultimate Psionics to Starfinder, or starting from the ground up?
It's not a direct conversion, but we're keeping a lot of the thematic elements of it. So, kind of somewhere in between is the best way to explain it, I suppose. Things that no longer make sense to keep are going away, things that need to be changed are being changed. Things that fit in Starfinder are coming over within Starfinder's paradigm.
Will you be converting Ultimate Psionics to Starfinder, or starting from the ground up?It's not a direct conversion, but we're keeping a lot of the thematic elements of it. So, kind of somewhere in between is the best way to explain it, I suppose. Things that no longer make sense to keep are going away, things that need to be changed are being changed. Things that fit in Starfinder are coming over within Starfinder's paradigm.
Great, as long as it works beautifully within the framework, Jeremy. I bet everyone that replied on this thread is looking forward to the next product.
Will there be conversions of existing Starfinder casting classes to use psionic rules? Considering that caster levels aren't as ubiquitous in Starfinder as in Pathfinder, a power point conversion of mystic and technomancer would be a lot easier to do than for Pathfinder classes.
Who knows?
You've been very patient, folks, and I'm pleased to announce that the playtest for the Psionics Guide has finally begun with Signal Confirmed.
This initial test release includes the psionic races, the return of the aegis class, the transformation of soulknife into an archetype, and some psionic feats. Please, give it a read, give it a whirl, and know that we look forward to your feedback!
Would you prefer feedback here, in another Paizo thread, or elsewhere?
I'm a sometime freelance DSP writer and follow a lot of their developments, so I can tell you that they’ll be happy to take feedback here on the Paizo forums (but in the other thread which is for the playtest), or on the corresponding thread on GitP, but DSP is currently working through technical difficulties on their website and so they don't have a feedback thread there. (For the record, I have contributed nothing but my own rambling feedback to the Starfinder projects so far, so I can’t help you with anything else.)
The races have been updated with a few changes. Hopefully you will all find them more fairly balanced now.
Changelog:
-Duergar racial Trust Your Fear is now a reaction instead of free action.
-Elan racial Infiltrator has been changed to the following “Elans do not increase the DC of Disguise checks made to disguise themselves as members of another race of the same type. They still suffer the usual DC increase to Disguise checks made to disguise themselves as a creature of a different size category.”
-The following has been added to Atstreidi’s Assimilate Armor: “For all intents and purposes, an atstreidi’s armor shell is their body. It cannot be targeted individually or sundered.”
-The Half-Giant ability Overwhelming Force now costs a reaction, psionic focus and specifically does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
-The Half-Giant ability Heat Acclimated also applies to the burning condition now.
-Dromite’s teamwork ability now applies to Harrying Fire.
-Maenad outburst no longer grants +1 damage. It now allows the Maenad to reroll 1s on damage rolls.
-There have been a variety of grammar corrections
Any updates about this book?
On the kickstarter page there are some.
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Greetings,
Is there an update on the progress of this book? I'm really looking forward to it.
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The last one was on September.
I wish they would hire someone to take over the project and finish it, but I doubt the amount raised by the campaign would be enough.
All the stuff that is available for playtest can be found on this thread at the GiTP forums.
There's been an update on this project. Here.
They are bringing some people in to help, hope it gets better.
Actually looking forward to these books!
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Well, they released almost enough material for that:
Races, the Aegis class and the Soulknife archetype
Specialist class and powers
Themes
Psion class
Psionic powers
I'm still hopeful they'll get over this slump and turn out all the promised books.
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I probably purchased most of my 3pp stuff for Pathfinder 1 from Dreamscarred Press and Interjection Games.
I got a lot of mileage out of DSP products, adding psionic monsters to published adventures, converting NPCs to psionic classes... I have a long history with Psionics, back when AD&D and Dark Sun were around(I still have the physical books), and I'm really pleased with their work on Pathfinder.
I hope they finish up all the books unlocked in the kickstarter campaign for Starfinder, or worst case scenario, pass it on to a worthwhile successor.
The Vitalist was the best! The fourth class in the psionic book for SF is supposed to be a collective user as well - I hope he has similar abilities.