Psionics Request

[Leold]

Hey all, first post I've made to the actual Nexus Forums, but I've been DLing plenty of excellent mods from here to enhance both my Oblivion and Fallout 3 games. Just wanna quickly thank all the modders on here for their amazing works that they've so graciously shared with the community.

 

Anyways, I've been thinking on this idea for a while and think this would make an amazing mod if it could be realized. I played the Underdark mod released on TES Nexus(Fantastic mod btw) and was really interested it because added awesome new places, NPCs, and creatures based on the Forgotten Realms setting. Adding the illithids and the companion mindslayer Illi really topped it of nicely. I know illithids are the strongest psionic race and that these powers are pretty rare but I thought it would be cool if the player character could get some spells so they could roleplay as a psionicist.

 

Psionics are basically an alternate form of magic that uses the powers of the mind instead of actual casting hand motions, spell components or memorization. They primarily depend on the intelligence of the individual and the willpower and can physically exhaust or even kill a user that continually uses their abilities without rest. However, psionic powers are limited to a degree in comparison to regular magic because they cannot emulate everything that normal spells can. Some notable disciplines(psionic abilities) include:

 

-Telepathy

-Psionic blasts of force like an illithid's mind blast or mind wave

-Telekinesis

-Mental domination

-Becoming incorporeal

-Moving through other dimensions

-Excite latent energy in an object causing it to vibrate violently and eventually explode

-Absorb many physical or magical hits and releasing that power all at one time

 

These are just a few that I found on a wikia page here. Some additional ones could be some type of healing through meditation, creating weapons such as daggers or swords out of pure psionic energy, or increasing Int. or Will. through mental concentration or other abilities one would likely possess if they have access to these powers.

 

Just adding these as spells would be great, but since they are inherently different from magicka, they might have their own system, perhaps draining an amount of fatigue from the user instead of using magicka until they pass out from exhaustion. For each time fatigue hits zero, Willpower or Intelligence may suffer damage for some time until the user has rested up or meditated to prevent overuse. A seperate system can also allow warrior type characters or thief type characters to become psychic warriors, soulknife assassins, or even monk warriors able to channel Ki.

 

If anyone would like to use these ideas to make a mod, you're more than welcome to them. I know there are several good telekinesis mods such as Talkie's Telekinetic Mastery(very cool, check it out if interested) and some other overhauls but I believe this concept could be improved even further. I'm no modder myself, I just have a few companions I've made using CSR(also by the awesome Talkie) and I doubt they're good enough to release on Nexus, but if someone would like to give this idea a shot, feel free to. Anyhow, thanks for reading and if you're interested in modding it that'd be awesome.

 

Leold