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* Creator/WhiteWolf also has their [[TabletopGame/{{Aeon}} Aeon/Trinity]] series, which focuses on this exclusively. All the players are different flavors of Psions with their splat specific Psychic Powers which cover every form of _____-kinesis there might be.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!'', set in the same universe, features mesmerists, the psions' predecessors.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!'', set in the same universe, features mesmerists, the psions' predecessors.
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* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The ''TabletopGame/TrinityUniverseWhiteWolf'' focuses on this exclusively. All the players are different flavors of Psions with their splat specific Psychic Powers which cover every form of _____-kinesis there might be. The game line ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}'' specifically features mesmerists, the psions' predecessors.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The Slann have a telepathy rule that allows them to cast spells through skinkpriests (for range and line of sight and such).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The Slann have a telepathy rule that allows them to cast spells through skinkpriests (for range and line of sight and such).
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* Psychics are a monster type in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game. They usually require the player to [[PowerAtAPrice sacrifice their life points]] to [[CastFromHitPoints activate their effects]].
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** Psychicsare were added to the game in the late 2000s as a monster type in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game. They usually require the player type, as part of a general shift to science fiction. Early psychics had a general gimmick of [[PowerAtAPrice sacrifice their life points]] paying Life Points]] or restoring them, but they've since become as all-over-the-place as any type, covering all manner of different archetypes and playstyles.
** Though Psychics as a type were only added in the ''5D's'' era, quite a few monsters with an obvious psychic theming predated them. Jinzo, whose name in Japanese is "Psycho Shocker", is probably the most notable one, with its psychic abilities manifesting in being able to[[CastFromHitPoints activate their effects]]. seek out and disable Traps.
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** Though Psychics as a type were only added in the ''5D's'' era, quite a few monsters with an obvious psychic theming predated them. Jinzo, whose name in Japanese is "Psycho Shocker", is probably the most notable one, with its psychic abilities manifesting in being able to
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* In ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' Visionary and The Dreamer / Muse have access to telekinesis, telepathy, psychic constructs, and a whole slew of other powers. The Idealist only has access to Psychic Constructs.
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* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} features several psionic using creatures such as the intellect devourer (a D&D monster), which have been used in place of mind flayers by many players, since they're not restricted by copyright issues. Several third party sourcebooks have been released which add rules for psionics.
** Pathfinder has now added Occult Adventures, finally giving players non-third party access to Psychic classes, including one that is pretty much a bender, like from Avatar. The key difference to previous editions' psionics is that psychic magic is exactly that in its entirety and with no ambiguity or variance -- ''magic''.
* In TabletopGame/{{RIFTS}}, many creatures and humans have psychic powers. This makes them second class citizens or enemies for the human supremacists, the Coalition.
* All sorts of psychic powers are available for purchase in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''. The greatest practitioners of the psychic arts are the Europans and the Venusian priest-hood, although nearly any intelligent person may have psychic abilities.
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' universe has a [[HumanAliens human-variant subspecies]], the Zhodani, whose ruling class has psychic abilities. The Zhodani consider other humans dishonest and criminal, since a society of mind-readers cannot lie or steal. Other humans consider the Zhodani to be raving fascists, since a society of mind-readers has no privacy or individual rights (there are no laws in Zhodani society at ''all'' to forbid higher classes from reading lower-class Zhodani's minds at will).
* The Slann in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' fantasy battles have a telepathy rule that allows them to cast spells through skinkpriests (for range and line of sight and such).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' features a lot of these, tied heavily into the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell-dimension full of daemons]] used for [[FasterThanLightTravel faster-than-light travel]]. Psychically sensitive humans ("psykers") can have their power amplified by various [[PsychoSerum twisted procedures]], and are used for [[SubspaceAnsible long-range communication]] (Astropaths), steering ships through the aforementioned hell-dimension (Navigators), combat units (Sanctioned Psykers, Space Marine Librarians) or just plain [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] for various awful machines. The [[MindRape processes used]] generally leave them completely insane, but sanity is highly overrated when working for the Imperium anyway. Plus all the other really nasty things that could happen when attempting to use your psychic powers. [[YourHeadASplode Like your head asploding]]. And those psykers ''without'' such "treatments" can attract [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons of the Warp]] and wind up with [[FateWorseThanDeath even worse fates]].
*** Special mention goes to the fan Imperial Guard regiment the [[FanFic/FirstMembranes 1st Membranes]], who do to a quirk of ''Only War'' regiment creation rules are almost all (97%) psykers- often incompletely trained, at that.
** Not just humans either. [[SpaceElves Eldar]], [[SpaceOrcs Orks]] and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] are all latently psychic, but use their powers in different ways:
** Pathfinder has now added Occult Adventures, finally giving players non-third party access to Psychic classes, including one that is pretty much a bender, like from Avatar. The key difference to previous editions' psionics is that psychic magic is exactly that in its entirety and with no ambiguity or variance -- ''magic''.
* In TabletopGame/{{RIFTS}}, many creatures and humans have psychic powers. This makes them second class citizens or enemies for the human supremacists, the Coalition.
* All sorts of psychic powers are available for purchase in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''. The greatest practitioners of the psychic arts are the Europans and the Venusian priest-hood, although nearly any intelligent person may have psychic abilities.
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' universe has a [[HumanAliens human-variant subspecies]], the Zhodani, whose ruling class has psychic abilities. The Zhodani consider other humans dishonest and criminal, since a society of mind-readers cannot lie or steal. Other humans consider the Zhodani to be raving fascists, since a society of mind-readers has no privacy or individual rights (there are no laws in Zhodani society at ''all'' to forbid higher classes from reading lower-class Zhodani's minds at will).
* The Slann in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' fantasy battles have a telepathy rule that allows them to cast spells through skinkpriests (for range and line of sight and such).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' features a lot of these, tied heavily into the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell-dimension full of daemons]] used for [[FasterThanLightTravel faster-than-light travel]]. Psychically sensitive humans ("psykers") can have their power amplified by various [[PsychoSerum twisted procedures]], and are used for [[SubspaceAnsible long-range communication]] (Astropaths), steering ships through the aforementioned hell-dimension (Navigators), combat units (Sanctioned Psykers, Space Marine Librarians) or just plain [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] for various awful machines. The [[MindRape processes used]] generally leave them completely insane, but sanity is highly overrated when working for the Imperium anyway. Plus all the other really nasty things that could happen when attempting to use your psychic powers. [[YourHeadASplode Like your head asploding]]. And those psykers ''without'' such "treatments" can attract [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons of the Warp]] and wind up with [[FateWorseThanDeath even worse fates]].
*** Special mention goes to the fan Imperial Guard regiment the [[FanFic/FirstMembranes 1st Membranes]], who do to a quirk of ''Only War'' regiment creation rules are almost all (97%) psykers- often incompletely trained, at that.
** Not just humans either. [[SpaceElves Eldar]], [[SpaceOrcs Orks]] and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] are all latently psychic, but use their powers in different ways:
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* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} features ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': There are several psionic using creatures such as the intellect devourer (a D&D ''D&D'' monster), which have been used in place of mind flayers by many players, since they're not restricted by copyright issues. Several third party sourcebooks have been released which add rules for psionics. \n** Pathfinder has now added Occult Adventures, finally giving The ''Occult Adventures'' gives players non-third party access to Psychic classes, including one that is pretty much a bender, like from Avatar.classes -- kineticists who shape elemental energy, mediums who commune with spirits, mesmerists who twist others' perceptions, and truly telepathic psychics. The key difference to previous editions' psionics is that psychic magic is exactly that in its entirety and with no ambiguity or variance -- ''magic''.
*In TabletopGame/{{RIFTS}}, many ''TabletopGame/{{RIFTS}}'': Many creatures and humans have psychic powers. This makes them second class citizens or enemies for the human supremacists, the Coalition.
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''.: All sorts of psychic powers are available for purchasein ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''. The greatest practitioners of the psychic arts are the Europans and the Venusian priest-hood, although nearly any intelligent person may have psychic abilities.
*The ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' universe has a [[HumanAliens human-variant subspecies]], the Zhodani, whose ruling class has psychic abilities. The Zhodani consider other humans dishonest and criminal, since a society of mind-readers cannot lie or steal. Other humans consider the Zhodani to be raving fascists, since a society of mind-readers has no privacy or individual rights (there are no laws in Zhodani society at ''all'' to forbid higher classes from reading lower-class Zhodani's minds at will).
* *''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The Slann in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' fantasy battles have a telepathy rule that allows them to cast spells through skinkpriests (for range and line of sight and such).
*''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' features a lot of these, tied heavily into the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell-dimension full of daemons]] used for [[FasterThanLightTravel faster-than-light travel]]. travel]].
** Psychically sensitive humans ("psykers") can have their power amplified by various [[PsychoSerum twisted procedures]], and are used for [[SubspaceAnsible long-range communication]] (Astropaths), steering ships through the aforementioned hell-dimension (Navigators), combat units (Sanctioned Psykers, Space Marine Librarians) or just plain [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] for various awful machines. The [[MindRape processes used]] generally leave them completely insane, but sanity is highly overrated when working for the Imperium anyway. Plus all the other really nasty things that could happen when attempting to use your psychic powers. [[YourHeadASplode Like your head asploding]]. And those psykers ''without'' such "treatments" can attract [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons of the Warp]] and wind up with [[FateWorseThanDeath even worse fates]].
*** Special mention goes to ** Among the fan Imperial Guard regiment the [[FanFic/FirstMembranes 1st Membranes]], who do to a quirk of ''Only War'' regiment creation rules are almost all (97%) psykers- often incompletely trained, at that.
** Not just humans either.alien species, [[SpaceElves Eldar]], [[SpaceOrcs Orks]] and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] are all latently psychic, but use their powers in different ways:
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** Psychically sensitive humans ("psykers") can have their power amplified by various [[PsychoSerum twisted procedures]], and are used for [[SubspaceAnsible long-range communication]] (Astropaths), steering ships through the aforementioned hell-dimension (Navigators), combat units (Sanctioned Psykers, Space Marine Librarians) or just plain [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] for various awful machines. The [[MindRape processes used]] generally leave them completely insane, but sanity is highly overrated when working for the Imperium anyway. Plus all the other really nasty things that could happen when attempting to use your psychic powers. [[YourHeadASplode Like your head asploding]]. And those psykers ''without'' such "treatments" can attract [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons of the Warp]] and wind up with [[FateWorseThanDeath even worse fates]].
** Not just humans either.
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*** With the release of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, psionic-themed subclasses have been released seemingly in lieu of a full psionic class or system. These subclasses include the Psi Warrior Fighter, the Soul Knife Rogue, and the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer.
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*** With the release of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, psionic-themed subclasses have been released seemingly in lieu of a full psionic class or system. These subclasses include the Psi Warrior Fighter, the Soul Knife Rogue, and the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer. At the same time, the tentative dedicated Psionic class, the Mystic, was discarded and made noncanon because of balance issues and being too hard to manage without creeping into other classes' turfs.
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* Every supernatural in the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' has some variety of stereotypical psychic power, ranging from mind control to telepathy to psychometry to pre-/postcognition. However, the most "purely" psychic examples are psychic rules for mortals (ranging from medium powers to telepathy to pyrokinesis to biokinesis to mental assault). There's also the Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', a branch of the FBI that gains access to Teleinformatics, psychic powers dedicated towards interrogation, evidence gathering, and skill augmentation. Think [[Series/{{Millennium}} Frank Black]] on steroids. [[spoiler:Well, at least VASCU's powers ''seems'' psychic. It's actually MKULTRA drug therapy that supercharge information processing centers in the brain, granting abilities that seems to have parallels with psychic powers. However, while the process does produce undeniable powers, it's still artificial, thus not really compatible with natural psychic powers.]]
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* Every supernatural in the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' has some variety of stereotypical psychic power, ranging from mind control to telepathy to psychometry to pre-/postcognition. However, the most "purely" psychic examples are psychic rules for mortals (ranging from medium powers to telepathy to pyrokinesis to biokinesis to mental assault). There's also the Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', a branch of the FBI that gains access to Teleinformatics, psychic powers dedicated towards interrogation, evidence gathering, and skill augmentation. Think [[Series/{{Millennium}} [[Series/Millennium1996 Frank Black]] on steroids. [[spoiler:Well, at least VASCU's powers ''seems'' psychic. It's actually MKULTRA drug therapy that supercharge information processing centers in the brain, granting abilities that seems to have parallels with psychic powers. However, while the process does produce undeniable powers, it's still artificial, thus not really compatible with natural psychic powers.]]
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** Not just humans either. [[SpaceElves Eldar]], [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orks]] and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] are all latently psychic, but use their powers in different ways:
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** Not just humans either. [[SpaceElves Eldar]], [[OurOrcsAreDifferent [[SpaceOrcs Orks]] and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] are all latently psychic, but use their powers in different ways:
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*** With the release of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, psionic-themed subclasses have been released seemingly in lieu of a full psionic class.class or system. These subclasses include the Psi Warrior Fighter, the Soul Knife Rogue, and the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer.
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* While ''TabletopGame/IronswornStarforged'' describes it as "magic," supernatural powers are a setting option for the Forge. Most of the possible origins for magic are sci-fi in nature ("psychic experimentation" in particular) and several assets give player characters access to these abilities, especially [[MindOverMatter Kinetic]] and [[TheEmpath Empath]].
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* Psychic Monsters in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game, however they [[PowerAtAPrice activate]] their effects, [[CastFromHitPoints require you pay life points]].
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* Psychic Monsters Psychics are a monster type in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game, however they game. They usually require the player to [[PowerAtAPrice activate]] sacrifice their effects, life points]] to [[CastFromHitPoints require you pay life points]].
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* ScienceFiction role-playing games almost always include psionic powers of some sort. There is a difficulty in these games of trying to provide adventures for characters who are neither cops nor soldiers but are not obvious parallels to mundane activities such as street crime, computer hacking, smuggling, and cryptozoology. In other words, the easiest way for both TV series and role-playing games to lend an "unearthly" aspect to adventures is to give characters, machines, or creatures psychic abilities. Anything else tends to be very complicated or too subtle for a lot of the audience.
** Later fantasy [=RPGs=] merged the powers (and naming conventions) from magic and psychic traditions and treated them as roughly equivalent uses of preternatural powers.
** Unsurprisingly given all the precedent in comic book form alone, superhero [=RPGs=] in general have these, and "psychic" or "psionic" is typically treated as its own distinct "power source". (This holds true even in more effect-based systems; psychic telepathy ''will'' be considered to be at least a different "special effect" or the like from for example magical or technological versions, even if they then all end up using largely the same mechanics.)
* Creator/WhiteWolf also has their [[TabletopGame/{{Aeon}} Aeon/Trinity]] series, which focuses on this exclusively. All the players are different flavors of Psions with their splat specific Psychic Powers which cover every form of _____-kinesis there might be.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!'', set in the same universe, features mesmerists, the psions' predecessors.
* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' has its parapsychics, who vary quite a lot in power. At the low end, they can keep their coffee hot. At the high end, they can crush a HumongousMecha into a little tin can, set fire to [[KillItWithFire buildings]] with a thought, and [[MindRape rebuild your personality]] from the ground up. For this reason, they're subject to mandatory registration with the [[StateSec OIS]], and those with powers deemed ''Dangerous'' or ''Invasive'' have to wear public identity tags. On the plus side, both the government and corporations ''love'' their abilities, so they tend to migrate to high paying jobs.
* Several creatures across the various ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' settings have psychic abilities such as telepathy, mind control, and telekinesis, even if they don't always use special psionic rules, including the relatively common mind flayer.
** D&D has rules for psionics, but the original game system had any number of magical spells and powers that mimicked the stock psychic powers and later retained spells with names like ''ESP'' and ''Telekinesis'', so the relevant themes could be used without any separate mechanics. Most of the older versions of psionics had rules that were not fully integrated with the original system, so many monsters weren't equipped to defend against psionic attacks (which had separate defenses from magic), which meant that psionic classes could easily mop the floor with most non-psionic enemies. This was fixed in later editions.
** ''Eldritch Wizardry'' from the original setting gave us "psionic combat", which could be used as optional replacements for characters' and creatures' basic abilities.
** AD&D has a set of psionic powers (or at least supplementary talents for exceptional individuals) as a part of core rules (or at least Players' Handbook appendix). Monsters statistics got "Psionic ability" entry.
** AD&D 2nd ed. got psionics cleansed out of the core, in exchange for the much more developed and ordered system along with a dedicated class (the Psionicist) introduced in ''The Complete Psionic's Handbook'' as an option. The ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' setting built upon it.
** The ''Dark Sun'' setting uses psionics more than any other. Practically ''everyone'' has it there. In fact, it's considered an aberration if a creature with even rudimentary intelligence does ''not'' have at least some skill with psionics.
** Late AD&D (Player's Options) got the Skills & Powers psionics system, which employed the Big HitPoints approach instead of skill checks and tricks. In its initial published form, the attacker in telepathic combat lost ''more'' than the target. It was used for the new ''Dark Sun'' as well.
** In the 3rd edition, psionics became an almost-core part. ...And essentially became one more strange sort of magic (up to sort-of-{{Familiar}}s).
** 3.5 made a few changes to the psionics system, including the removal of psychic combat rules and "supernova".
** In TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}, though psionics are very much a presence in the setting, they're mostly connected to the Kalashtar, Inspired, and Dreaming Dark. While there's a whole MythArc relating to these races and factions, it mostly takes place on a different continent from the main setting.
** D&D 4th Edition introduced the Psionic power source in the Player's Handbook 3, which includes the Psion, Battlemind, Ardent, and Monk classes. Plot-wise it is mentioned to have been produced by the world in the humanoid races as a defence against the many {{Eldritch Abomination}}s coming from [[EldritchLocation The Far Realm]].
** "Psychic" is simply a damage type that describes attacks that damage the mind in 4th Edition, with no special rules. It is used by several spells usable by players as well as creatures such as aboleths, mind flayers, grells, etc.
** 5th Edition is ''planned'' to get psionic rules, but as of November 2015 only the first draft of parts of it have been seen.
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'': Asyncs, as psychics are termed, result from exposure to the Watts-[=McLeod=] strain of the Exsurgent virus. Given that the Exsurgent virus is quite simply TheVirus, most asyncs in the know worry that they might be slowly being corrupted by the [=TITANs=].
* ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns'' has both psychic and theurgic powers.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has nine flavors of psi (astral projection, ergokinesis, ESP, probability alteration, psychic healing, psychic vampirism, psychokinesis, telepathy, and teleportation), along with anti-psi for players who'd rather mess up the psychics' day. Psi is treated completely different from magic spells -- in general, psis are less versatile than mages but their abilities are safer and more reliable.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** A staple of blue magic. In terms of game mechanics, "psychic" abilities most often take the form of forcing your opponent to discard from their hand and/or directly from their deck (attacking their mind and knowledge), removing cards from their graveyard (their memory), blocking or otherwise preventing them from playing cards (in line with AntiMagic and DispelMagic), and even playing their own cards against them (landing somewhere between MindControl and MindRape).
** The (in)famous Blue-aligned Planeswalker Jace Beleren -- Mind Sculptor, Memory Adept and Architect of Thought -- is particularly skilled in mental magic. Jace's magic consists of summoning illusions, countering the spells of others, stealing secrets from peoples' minds, and outright ''erasing'' them. In the opening of ''Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013'', even [[BigBad Nicol Bolas]] acknowledges Jace's prowess, and states that Jace has a "supremely powerful mind" whose only limitation is the inability to see how he could rule all.
* Every supernatural in the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' has some variety of stereotypical psychic power, ranging from mind control to telepathy to psychometry to pre-/postcognition. However, the most "purely" psychic examples are psychic rules for mortals (ranging from medium powers to telepathy to pyrokinesis to biokinesis to mental assault). There's also the Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', a branch of the FBI that gains access to Teleinformatics, psychic powers dedicated towards interrogation, evidence gathering, and skill augmentation. Think [[Series/{{Millennium}} Frank Black]] on steroids. [[spoiler:Well, at least VASCU's powers ''seems'' psychic. It's actually MKULTRA drug therapy that supercharge information processing centers in the brain, granting abilities that seems to have parallels with psychic powers. However, while the process does produce undeniable powers, it's still artificial, thus not really compatible with natural psychic powers.]]
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', many mutations grant various psychic powers. This being [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Paranoia]], they tend to be dangerous to all involved. Oh, and if they find out you have them, you can either register them (and be subject to [[MadScientist the whims of R&D]]) or be executed.
* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} features several psionic using creatures such as the intellect devourer (a D&D monster), which have been used in place of mind flayers by many players, since they're not restricted by copyright issues. Several third party sourcebooks have been released which add rules for psionics.
** Pathfinder has now added Occult Adventures, finally giving players non-third party access to Psychic classes, including one that is pretty much a bender, like from Avatar. The key difference to previous editions' psionics is that psychic magic is exactly that in its entirety and with no ambiguity or variance -- ''magic''.
* In TabletopGame/{{RIFTS}}, many creatures and humans have psychic powers. This makes them second class citizens or enemies for the human supremacists, the Coalition.
* All sorts of psychic powers are available for purchase in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''. The greatest practitioners of the psychic arts are the Europans and the Venusian priest-hood, although nearly any intelligent person may have psychic abilities.
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' universe has a [[HumanAliens human-variant subspecies]], the Zhodani, whose ruling class has psychic abilities. The Zhodani consider other humans dishonest and criminal, since a society of mind-readers cannot lie or steal. Other humans consider the Zhodani to be raving fascists, since a society of mind-readers has no privacy or individual rights (there are no laws in Zhodani society at ''all'' to forbid higher classes from reading lower-class Zhodani's minds at will).
* The Slann in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' fantasy battles have a telepathy rule that allows them to cast spells through skinkpriests (for range and line of sight and such).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' features a lot of these, tied heavily into the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell-dimension full of daemons]] used for [[FasterThanLightTravel faster-than-light travel]]. Psychically sensitive humans ("psykers") can have their power amplified by various [[PsychoSerum twisted procedures]], and are used for [[SubspaceAnsible long-range communication]] (Astropaths), steering ships through the aforementioned hell-dimension (Navigators), combat units (Sanctioned Psykers, Space Marine Librarians) or just plain [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] for various awful machines. The [[MindRape processes used]] generally leave them completely insane, but sanity is highly overrated when working for the Imperium anyway. Plus all the other really nasty things that could happen when attempting to use your psychic powers. [[YourHeadASplode Like your head asploding]]. And those psykers ''without'' such "treatments" can attract [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons of the Warp]] and wind up with [[FateWorseThanDeath even worse fates]].
*** Special mention goes to the fan Imperial Guard regiment the [[FanFic/FirstMembranes 1st Membranes]], who do to a quirk of ''Only War'' regiment creation rules are almost all (97%) psykers- often incompletely trained, at that.
** Not just humans either. [[SpaceElves Eldar]], [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orks]] and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] are all latently psychic, but use their powers in different ways:
*** The Eldar are all latently psychic and draw their power from the Warp like humans, but unlike the other races, they have developed means to ensure safe use of their psychic powers. However, for the majority of them, their powers never develop past being able to share a PsychicLink with other Eldar, or manipulating Wraithbone, a kind of living metal which all Eldar technology is derived from. Eldar seeking to develop their powers further join the Path of the Seer and become Warlocks or even Farseers, able to perform such incredible feats as psychically guiding projectiles towards their targets, {{Mind Rap|e}}ing enemies, protecting allies with psychic shields, and conjuring up eldritch storms and flames capable of tearing through enemy squads.
*** Orks use "Weirdboyz", Orks which act as sponges for the latent psychic energy Orks give off. Weirdboyz can build up a charge by being around other Orks, the more Orks and [[BloodKnight the more fun they're having]], the more energy the Weirdboyz gets. Weirdboyz randomly discharge this power and they usually come in the form of highly destructive powers, including but not limited to psychic lightning, streams of boiling psychic vomit, and crushing enemies under a giant psychic foot, the "Foot of Gork". However, Weirdboyz lack the discipline of other, more civilized races, and there is always the chance the Weirdboy cannot contain or discharge the psychic energy in a controlled manner, [[YourHeadAsplode resulting in]]...Even without Weirdboyz, the Orks' psychic gestalt field bends reality according to Ork belief. How powerful this effect actually is remains uncertain.
*** The Tyranids use Zoanthropes, a subspecies which uses the latent psychic power of the Tyranid HiveMind and functions as a form of artillery piece. Other large Tyranid creatures, called Synapse creatures, can produce a psychic network which binds lesser Tyranid beasts to the will of the Hive Mind; without the Synapse creature projecting the field, lesser Tyranid creatures are known to revert to a feral state or die outright. [[KeystoneArmy This makes Synapse creatures a prime target for enemy forces]].
*** The Dark Eldar's psychic potential has actually atrophied compared to the rest of their race. They deliberately allowed this to happen. The Dark Eldar live in the Webway, which is even easier for daemons to breach than the physical realm. Psykers are basically daemon bait. Even if they weren't the favorite prey of the Chaos God of Squick, letting psykers run loose in their city would be a very bad idea.
* Psychic Monsters in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game, however they [[PowerAtAPrice activate]] their effects, [[CastFromHitPoints require you pay life points]].
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* ScienceFiction role-playing games almost always include psionic powers of some sort. There is a difficulty in these games of trying to provide adventures for characters who are neither cops nor soldiers but are not obvious parallels to mundane activities such as street crime, computer hacking, smuggling, and cryptozoology. In other words, the easiest way for both TV series and role-playing games to lend an "unearthly" aspect to adventures is to give characters, machines, or creatures psychic abilities. Anything else tends to be very complicated or too subtle for a lot of the audience.
** Later fantasy [=RPGs=] merged the powers (and naming conventions) from magic and psychic traditions and treated them as roughly equivalent uses of preternatural powers.
** Unsurprisingly given all the precedent in comic book form alone, superhero [=RPGs=] in general have these, and "psychic" or "psionic" is typically treated as its own distinct "power source". (This holds true even in more effect-based systems; psychic telepathy ''will'' be considered to be at least a different "special effect" or the like from for example magical or technological versions, even if they then all end up using largely the same mechanics.)
* Creator/WhiteWolf also has their [[TabletopGame/{{Aeon}} Aeon/Trinity]] series, which focuses on this exclusively. All the players are different flavors of Psions with their splat specific Psychic Powers which cover every form of _____-kinesis there might be.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!'', set in the same universe, features mesmerists, the psions' predecessors.
* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' has its parapsychics, who vary quite a lot in power. At the low end, they can keep their coffee hot. At the high end, they can crush a HumongousMecha into a little tin can, set fire to [[KillItWithFire buildings]] with a thought, and [[MindRape rebuild your personality]] from the ground up. For this reason, they're subject to mandatory registration with the [[StateSec OIS]], and those with powers deemed ''Dangerous'' or ''Invasive'' have to wear public identity tags. On the plus side, both the government and corporations ''love'' their abilities, so they tend to migrate to high paying jobs.
* Several creatures across the various ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' settings have psychic abilities such as telepathy, mind control, and telekinesis, even if they don't always use special psionic rules, including the relatively common mind flayer.
** D&D has rules for psionics, but the original game system had any number of magical spells and powers that mimicked the stock psychic powers and later retained spells with names like ''ESP'' and ''Telekinesis'', so the relevant themes could be used without any separate mechanics. Most of the older versions of psionics had rules that were not fully integrated with the original system, so many monsters weren't equipped to defend against psionic attacks (which had separate defenses from magic), which meant that psionic classes could easily mop the floor with most non-psionic enemies. This was fixed in later editions.
** ''Eldritch Wizardry'' from the original setting gave us "psionic combat", which could be used as optional replacements for characters' and creatures' basic abilities.
** AD&D has a set of psionic powers (or at least supplementary talents for exceptional individuals) as a part of core rules (or at least Players' Handbook appendix). Monsters statistics got "Psionic ability" entry.
** AD&D 2nd ed. got psionics cleansed out of the core, in exchange for the much more developed and ordered system along with a dedicated class (the Psionicist) introduced in ''The Complete Psionic's Handbook'' as an option. The ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' setting built upon it.
** The ''Dark Sun'' setting uses psionics more than any other. Practically ''everyone'' has it there. In fact, it's considered an aberration if a creature with even rudimentary intelligence does ''not'' have at least some skill with psionics.
** Late AD&D (Player's Options) got the Skills & Powers psionics system, which employed the Big HitPoints approach instead of skill checks and tricks. In its initial published form, the attacker in telepathic combat lost ''more'' than the target. It was used for the new ''Dark Sun'' as well.
** In the 3rd edition, psionics became an almost-core part. ...And essentially became one more strange sort of magic (up to sort-of-{{Familiar}}s).
** 3.5 made a few changes to the psionics system, including the removal of psychic combat rules and "supernova".
** In TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}, though psionics are very much a presence in the setting, they're mostly connected to the Kalashtar, Inspired, and Dreaming Dark. While there's a whole MythArc relating to these races and factions, it mostly takes place on a different continent from the main setting.
** D&D 4th Edition introduced the Psionic power source in the Player's Handbook 3, which includes the Psion, Battlemind, Ardent, and Monk classes. Plot-wise it is mentioned to have been produced by the world in the humanoid races as a defence against the many {{Eldritch Abomination}}s coming from [[EldritchLocation The Far Realm]].
** "Psychic" is simply a damage type that describes attacks that damage the mind in 4th Edition, with no special rules. It is used by several spells usable by players as well as creatures such as aboleths, mind flayers, grells, etc.
** 5th Edition is ''planned'' to get psionic rules, but as of November 2015 only the first draft of parts of it have been seen.
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'': Asyncs, as psychics are termed, result from exposure to the Watts-[=McLeod=] strain of the Exsurgent virus. Given that the Exsurgent virus is quite simply TheVirus, most asyncs in the know worry that they might be slowly being corrupted by the [=TITANs=].
* ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns'' has both psychic and theurgic powers.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' has nine flavors of psi (astral projection, ergokinesis, ESP, probability alteration, psychic healing, psychic vampirism, psychokinesis, telepathy, and teleportation), along with anti-psi for players who'd rather mess up the psychics' day. Psi is treated completely different from magic spells -- in general, psis are less versatile than mages but their abilities are safer and more reliable.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** A staple of blue magic. In terms of game mechanics, "psychic" abilities most often take the form of forcing your opponent to discard from their hand and/or directly from their deck (attacking their mind and knowledge), removing cards from their graveyard (their memory), blocking or otherwise preventing them from playing cards (in line with AntiMagic and DispelMagic), and even playing their own cards against them (landing somewhere between MindControl and MindRape).
** The (in)famous Blue-aligned Planeswalker Jace Beleren -- Mind Sculptor, Memory Adept and Architect of Thought -- is particularly skilled in mental magic. Jace's magic consists of summoning illusions, countering the spells of others, stealing secrets from peoples' minds, and outright ''erasing'' them. In the opening of ''Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013'', even [[BigBad Nicol Bolas]] acknowledges Jace's prowess, and states that Jace has a "supremely powerful mind" whose only limitation is the inability to see how he could rule all.
* Every supernatural in the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'' has some variety of stereotypical psychic power, ranging from mind control to telepathy to psychometry to pre-/postcognition. However, the most "purely" psychic examples are psychic rules for mortals (ranging from medium powers to telepathy to pyrokinesis to biokinesis to mental assault). There's also the Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'', a branch of the FBI that gains access to Teleinformatics, psychic powers dedicated towards interrogation, evidence gathering, and skill augmentation. Think [[Series/{{Millennium}} Frank Black]] on steroids. [[spoiler:Well, at least VASCU's powers ''seems'' psychic. It's actually MKULTRA drug therapy that supercharge information processing centers in the brain, granting abilities that seems to have parallels with psychic powers. However, while the process does produce undeniable powers, it's still artificial, thus not really compatible with natural psychic powers.]]
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', many mutations grant various psychic powers. This being [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Paranoia]], they tend to be dangerous to all involved. Oh, and if they find out you have them, you can either register them (and be subject to [[MadScientist the whims of R&D]]) or be executed.
* TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} features several psionic using creatures such as the intellect devourer (a D&D monster), which have been used in place of mind flayers by many players, since they're not restricted by copyright issues. Several third party sourcebooks have been released which add rules for psionics.
** Pathfinder has now added Occult Adventures, finally giving players non-third party access to Psychic classes, including one that is pretty much a bender, like from Avatar. The key difference to previous editions' psionics is that psychic magic is exactly that in its entirety and with no ambiguity or variance -- ''magic''.
* In TabletopGame/{{RIFTS}}, many creatures and humans have psychic powers. This makes them second class citizens or enemies for the human supremacists, the Coalition.
* All sorts of psychic powers are available for purchase in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge''. The greatest practitioners of the psychic arts are the Europans and the Venusian priest-hood, although nearly any intelligent person may have psychic abilities.
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' universe has a [[HumanAliens human-variant subspecies]], the Zhodani, whose ruling class has psychic abilities. The Zhodani consider other humans dishonest and criminal, since a society of mind-readers cannot lie or steal. Other humans consider the Zhodani to be raving fascists, since a society of mind-readers has no privacy or individual rights (there are no laws in Zhodani society at ''all'' to forbid higher classes from reading lower-class Zhodani's minds at will).
* The Slann in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' fantasy battles have a telepathy rule that allows them to cast spells through skinkpriests (for range and line of sight and such).
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' features a lot of these, tied heavily into the [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell-dimension full of daemons]] used for [[FasterThanLightTravel faster-than-light travel]]. Psychically sensitive humans ("psykers") can have their power amplified by various [[PsychoSerum twisted procedures]], and are used for [[SubspaceAnsible long-range communication]] (Astropaths), steering ships through the aforementioned hell-dimension (Navigators), combat units (Sanctioned Psykers, Space Marine Librarians) or just plain [[HumanSacrifice sacrifices]] for various awful machines. The [[MindRape processes used]] generally leave them completely insane, but sanity is highly overrated when working for the Imperium anyway. Plus all the other really nasty things that could happen when attempting to use your psychic powers. [[YourHeadASplode Like your head asploding]]. And those psykers ''without'' such "treatments" can attract [[OurDemonsAreDifferent daemons of the Warp]] and wind up with [[FateWorseThanDeath even worse fates]].
*** Special mention goes to the fan Imperial Guard regiment the [[FanFic/FirstMembranes 1st Membranes]], who do to a quirk of ''Only War'' regiment creation rules are almost all (97%) psykers- often incompletely trained, at that.
** Not just humans either. [[SpaceElves Eldar]], [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orks]] and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] are all latently psychic, but use their powers in different ways:
*** The Eldar are all latently psychic and draw their power from the Warp like humans, but unlike the other races, they have developed means to ensure safe use of their psychic powers. However, for the majority of them, their powers never develop past being able to share a PsychicLink with other Eldar, or manipulating Wraithbone, a kind of living metal which all Eldar technology is derived from. Eldar seeking to develop their powers further join the Path of the Seer and become Warlocks or even Farseers, able to perform such incredible feats as psychically guiding projectiles towards their targets, {{Mind Rap|e}}ing enemies, protecting allies with psychic shields, and conjuring up eldritch storms and flames capable of tearing through enemy squads.
*** Orks use "Weirdboyz", Orks which act as sponges for the latent psychic energy Orks give off. Weirdboyz can build up a charge by being around other Orks, the more Orks and [[BloodKnight the more fun they're having]], the more energy the Weirdboyz gets. Weirdboyz randomly discharge this power and they usually come in the form of highly destructive powers, including but not limited to psychic lightning, streams of boiling psychic vomit, and crushing enemies under a giant psychic foot, the "Foot of Gork". However, Weirdboyz lack the discipline of other, more civilized races, and there is always the chance the Weirdboy cannot contain or discharge the psychic energy in a controlled manner, [[YourHeadAsplode resulting in]]...Even without Weirdboyz, the Orks' psychic gestalt field bends reality according to Ork belief. How powerful this effect actually is remains uncertain.
*** The Tyranids use Zoanthropes, a subspecies which uses the latent psychic power of the Tyranid HiveMind and functions as a form of artillery piece. Other large Tyranid creatures, called Synapse creatures, can produce a psychic network which binds lesser Tyranid beasts to the will of the Hive Mind; without the Synapse creature projecting the field, lesser Tyranid creatures are known to revert to a feral state or die outright. [[KeystoneArmy This makes Synapse creatures a prime target for enemy forces]].
*** The Dark Eldar's psychic potential has actually atrophied compared to the rest of their race. They deliberately allowed this to happen. The Dark Eldar live in the Webway, which is even easier for daemons to breach than the physical realm. Psykers are basically daemon bait. Even if they weren't the favorite prey of the Chaos God of Squick, letting psykers run loose in their city would be a very bad idea.
* Psychic Monsters in the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game, however they [[PowerAtAPrice activate]] their effects, [[CastFromHitPoints require you pay life points]].
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