apex wrote:
Even then, we're talking about psionicists 'possessing' inanimate objects now- how would they go about doing it? psi's have no power over things without a mind.. except to move them-
Sorry, possession was probably the wrong term to use.
Didn't have time to finish my post, actually. I was going to say...In essence, the psionicist is enveloping the designated object in a "field" of movement aka. willpower. The movement of the object can be accomplished by Levitation spell in addition to simple movement.
Let's assume the controlling of a sword for instance. The sword levitates in the air - simple. Psionicists can move objects around with their powers, and if it is in the air there are no obstacles in the way. Now, the sword can perform some actions...for example it could be "swung" or "thrusted"...if the psionicist focuses on that sort of movement and speeds it up a bit. It won't reach lethal speeds, like a sword in the hand of an actual creature might, but it works.
So: an object is 'controlled' purely through movement. The same can go for remote controlled "puppets" or such. They could pick something up in a hand through some fancy manipulation of the fingers.
If you think about it, all that manipulation takes a lot of effort, since all movement must be directed by the psi. It would take a lot of concentration. Hence only single-object controlling could be accomplished...you might be able to hold multiple objects together in a formation for a while, but moving them all to perform actions would be rather difficult.
On a side note, this branch of psi could get a new skill "Single-mindedness" or such that helps with this process...
Anyway, that's the explanation. Hope it makes sense.
I don't actually think the compromise should be added, it was just a thought...Yes, the idea is creative, possibly good, but doesn't fit to current psi. It doesn't work as a subguild either. However it is not a stand-alone guild idea, yet, so...basically it is an orphan idea.
xerene wrote:
The idea of a construct is pretty neat, but not really a psi thing, I would think. It does however, sound like a neat guild idea something like an Earth Priest where you collect materials and build a golem of sorts to tank for you. ie:collect wood for a wood golem, iron for an iron golem and so on obviously making better golems with higher % of skills and gaining different golem types from different subguilds. Also the creator would need some sort of animate object spell and a few offie spells maybe with more levels you can gain buffing spells too.
I think epriests should just stick with minions.
As pointed out earlier, undead minions are possible because the "parts" (eg. corpses) were once alive and you're just "reviving" them. Wood, while it was once alive, was not sentient. And iron is dead material.
The closest thing to a "golem" that epriests could be able to make would be similar to "Frankenstein"-type creature...various bodyparts from different corpses, combined into one entity. (Give your Goktar graveborn another arm!...) But that doesn't really fit either (right?)...
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