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The Psi-Wars Fallacy
There's a comment I often get from people who have read a lot of Psi-Wars, especially from the beginning, and it goes something like this:"I like Psi-Wars, but it's funny. At the beginning you talked...
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Wiki Showcase: the Space Knight
"Where is the stuff on the "REALLY not Jedi, leave me alone Disney lawyers!"?" - Kevin HudginsSpace Knight by Kriz Villacis,Owned by Daniel DoverAh, the Space Knight. Perhaps the most iconic element of...
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Wiki Showcase: the Swift Form of Force Swordsmanship
Maradonian DuelistArt by Kriz VillacisOwned by Daniel DoverIf you've been following my blog for awhile, you might remember my discussion of Martial Arts as power-ups. That was, in fact, born out of my...
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Wiki Showcase: the Destructive Form of Force Swordsmanship
Continuing my series on the Psi-Wars force swordmanship styles as Power-Ups, when I put up the snap poll for "What force sword style would you pick for your character," of the classic "Maradonian"...
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Wiki Showcase: The Graceful Form of Force Swordsmanship
Today, I have the third force sword form in my series in Psi-Wars Force Swordsmanship style as Martial Arts Power-Ups. Of the "Maradonian styles," when I polled my Patrons about which style they'd...
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Wiki Showcase: Knightly Force Swordsmanship
Today is the last of "set 1" of my Psi-Wars Martial Arts As Power-Ups series. Rounding off the Maradonian, we have the "ancient" style of the "Guardian Form," or "Knightly Force Swordsmanship", which...
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Martial Arts Power-Ups Retrospective
If you enjoyed my Martial Arts as power-ups series, and you're just now joining us, you can see four more worked examples for Psi-Wars, my Space Opera setting:The Swift FormThe Destructive FormThe...
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Wiki Showcase: Sefelka Sonostra, the Fell Form as Martial Arts Power-Up
When it came to the Non-Maradonian Forms, the Furious Form or the Fell Form came in dead last with zero points, matching the Swift Form in the Snap Poll for martial arts they personally would use as...
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Wiki Showcase: the Serene Form as Martial Arts Power Up.
When I made my Snap Poll for my Patron's preferences for styles, the Serene Form came in third for non-Maradonian forms, though it did well in the Poll overall. I suspect the poll's results might have...
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Wiki Showcase: Psionic Force Swordsmanship as Martial Arts-As-Power-Up
In my snap poll to see which Psi-Wars martial arts everyone favored for their personal space knight, the Maelstrom Form (aka, Psionic Force Swordsmanship) came in second for non-Maradonian styles......
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Wiki Showcase: the Simple Form as Martial-Art-As-Power-Up
When I held a snap poll for the martial art most people wanted for their own space knight, the Simple Form won not only the Non-Maradonian styles, but proved the most popular style overall, handily...
View ArticleRobot Design Revisited
Psi-Wars needs robots. Star Wars has its droids, and cute sidekick robots and ominous kill-bots clutter up Pulp Space Opera. They tell you that you're in a sci-fi world, and they occupy an...
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Blog Roadmap: November 2019
Happy Halloween!We had a very good month here on Mailanka's musing. I've managed to beat all previous months for posts except for a very weird June (which I don't count) and the unbeatable cliff of...
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Wiki Showcase: Communion
Center by the BabmanI created Communion all the way back in Iteration 4 as my replacement for "the Force." If Psi-Wars is, in any way, going to invoke Star Wars, it must have mystical space magic....
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Wiki Showcase: True Communion
When I created Communion, I divided it into three "types." True Communion (originally just called "Communion," but one of my readers took to calling it "True Communion" in his game, and I've borrowed...
View ArticleWiki Showcase: Paths Revisited
Part of returning to Communion means looking at the Paths of Communion once again. I wrote paths originally as a sort of "Prestige Class" for Communion users. Instead of just being "a mystic" you...
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Wiki Showcase: the Path of the Bound Princess
The second of the original three paths I created for True Communion, the Bound Princess drew inspiration primarily from the Captive Maiden of "the Magic of Stories" from Pyramid #3/13, and, of course,...
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Wiki Showcase: the Path of the Exiled Master
The Path of the Exiled Master was the third of the three original paths created for True Communion. I drew heavy inspiration from the Gentle Fool from "the Magic of Stories" from Pyramid #3/13, but...
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Wiki Showcase: the Path of the Righteous Crusader
The Righteous Crusader was the first of the three paths I created for True Communion. It draws inspiration from the Archetype of the Noble Knight from "the Magic of Stories" from Pyramid #3/13, and...
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Wiki Showcase: the Path of the Nameless Hero
The Nameless Hero is a new path for True Communion, and the last of the three new paths that I made. It focuses on a community forced to take justice into its own hands, and the sacrifice of identity...
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