I've been toying with running an rpg (not a fan of D20 or the old GW system) but looking at them I don't recall all the powers being listed in them as having been in the comics so trying to come up with my own list of the most common examples of psi powers used have been (some are more antagonist than Judge use)
Telepath
Empath
Pre-Cog
Exorcist
Pyrokinetic
hallucinations
Telekinesis.
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Clairvoyance.
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Psychometry.
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Astral projection comes up a lot.
Do villains count? Psi Div tackles the Dark Judges, so presumably their powers are at least partially psionic in nature...
The Sisters can apparently generate illusions so convincing that they cause the relevant damage to the target that believes them. I'm not sure how you describe that. Is it a controled version of the same reality-warping effect that Psi-judge Schiehallon destroys Cal Hab with?
The big daddy of Dreddworld psychics is probably The Mutant, who could manipulate reality on a city-wide scale - probably a form of molecular-level TK. We saw him teleport others, generate psychic shields, launch psychic bolts, animate the dead, warp terrain, modify lifeforms and possibly create lifeforms. One of his very few weaknesses seemed the inability to fully restore life to existing beings.
Quote from: TotalHack on 25 August, 2015, 05:29:09 PM
The Sisters can apparently generate illusions so convincing that they cause the relevant damage to the target that believes them. I'm not sure how you describe that.
Tulpas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa) maybe?
Possible name for psis capable of that = Tulpaths.
There was some teenage girl (Glenny or Wenny Vomer?) in an Anderson strip who psi'ed a mixture of mud and rat guts into a walking, violent golem. That kid in the Calvin and Hobbes parody did the same with his toy tiger. Advanced telekinesis maybe?
At the risk of 2000ad becoming like the morally redundant or at best self-deluded annual Psychic Fair in my village, I'd like to see a story about how all that psi power came about between now and dredd's time.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 August, 2015, 07:29:40 PM
I'd like to see a story about how all that psi power came about between now and dredd's time.
You'd think it was some kind of mutation caused by the Atomic War - except that the likes of Ecks and Shenker were alive before that happened. Psychic powers probably originally derived from the aliens in the Anderson story 'Childhood's End', and just took a long time to fully emerge in humanity.
I thought the 'psi blast' (or whatever it was) through a gun was more 'sigh' than psi.
Plot Propulsion
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QuoteTelepath
Empath
Pre-Cog
Exorcist
Pyrokinetic
hallucinations
Are we counting the
Anderson series which Matt Smith wrote for IDW? In which case, add the following:
Psi-bomb
Psi-shields
Psychogeography
Latents
Psignature
Pre-cogs - A rather inept and strange inabilty to predict much of anything really...
I think I could become a Pre-cognitive Judge by randomly stating each month that; "a big threat to the city will happen soon, bad things will happen involving people, judges and ummm... not nice things"
...do I get the job?
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 25 August, 2015, 09:17:21 PM
Plot Propulsion
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Teh cadet anderson stories featured trainee psis with loads of odd powers the one I remember most was the invisible girl which led to discussion of wither she could actually make herself invisible or weather she messed with minds so perps just think they cant see her
Good one, Big Dave. Can't Anderson feck with electronic surveillance too? Or is that just Hamida?
To be honest the answer is by and large pretty much whatever the plot requires. It seems to be pretty flexible and open to interruption. Weren't the Samurai, in the brilliant 'The Warlord', Psi Projections of some form or other and they had cool ninja throwing stars and stuff. Or am I miss remembering the Psi stuff there was just [spoiler]how they were dispatched?[/spoiler]
Hi there
many thanks to everyone for their recollections and time in replying
Chris
Quote from: Greg M. on 25 August, 2015, 07:46:43 PM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 25 August, 2015, 07:29:40 PM
I'd like to see a story about how all that psi power came about between now and dredd's time.
You'd think it was some kind of mutation caused by the Atomic War - except that the likes of Ecks and Shenker were alive before that happened. Psychic powers probably originally derived from the aliens in the Anderson story 'Childhood's End', and just took a long time to fully emerge in humanity.
One of the 2057 flashback scenes in Origins mentions the founding of PSI-Division long before the Atomic War, maybe earlier atomic explosions and accidents kick-started the process and the Atomic War sped the process up.
There were those Psi Judges that used their powers but then made you forget they existed.
I think.
In teh Doomsday epic Anderson tells Dredd shes been working on something new - THOUGHT PROJECTION - and plants a suggestion in minds of their guards that one should go to sleep and the other should open door to their cell
Later in Doomsday epic Andersnon does THOUGHT PROJECTION again when she convinces guy on Atlas ship to go for walk and bring extra security passes.
She also uses TELEPATHY like radio or cell phone to speak to other ship when comms are jammed
Quote from: Big_Dave on 28 August, 2015, 05:59:17 PM
She also uses TELEPATHY like radio or cell phone to speak to other ship when comms are jammed
She employs something similar to draw Cadet Ecks (?) and Dredd to her in Necropolis.
Ekerson. Close though. Ecks was the early Psi-Div head.
(Apologies for my pedantic bastardry. As ever.)
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Quote from: Greg M. on 28 August, 2015, 09:30:22 PM
Ekerson. Close though. Ecks was the early Psi-Div head.
(Apologies for my pedantic bastardry. As ever.)
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Quote from: Big_Dave on 28 August, 2015, 09:47:41 PM
Planeting images in others minds
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Ahh the wonderful Barry Kitson... I loved his Anderson, Dredd and anything else really!
Wonder what ever happened to him?
Quote from: Dandontdare on 29 August, 2015, 01:12:01 AM
Quote from: Greg M. on 28 August, 2015, 09:30:22 PM
Ekerson. Close though. Ecks was the early Psi-Div head.
(Apologies for my pedantic bastardry. As ever.)
Never apologise
We come here for the thrillpower
We stay for the pedantic bastardry
S'right. If not lovingly but firmly corrected, how will we ever learn?
Quote from: Jacqusie on 29 August, 2015, 01:21:07 AM
Quote from: Big_Dave on 28 August, 2015, 09:47:41 PM
Planeting images in others minds
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Ahh the wonderful Barry Kitson... I loved his Anderson, Dredd and anything else really!
Wonder what ever happened to him?
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