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heirodule 07-27-07, 09:19 AM	I'm working the Du'rashka Tul, the xen'drik phenomenon that large organized groups on Xen'drik fall apart into savagery since the fall of the giants. I'm trying to connect a minor form of this effect to a psionic power that an NPC will posses, but I'm not familiar enough with psionics (or the supplements, which I don't have) to find something suitable. Telempathic Projection causing hostility over a wide area would suffice, but I don't see a "mass" effect. Death urge seems like overkill. Is there anything suitable I'm not seeing, or in a supplement? Thanks.
mahavira 07-28-07, 04:53 PM	I don't know that there's any specific psionic game mechanic that would help, but I would personally link it to Siberys dragonshards warped by Psionic Yuan Ti (psions and dragonmark bearers beign the only ones who use siberys shards for anything, leaving them worthless to most drow and giants) in service to Demogorgon (but then, so many things become explicable when you introduce Demogorgon...). Not having a dungeon magazine subscription, I warped the Savage Tide idea to fit with the Du'rashka Tul, and decided that Demogorgon is an aspect of a rajah who wants to prevent civilization from re-emerging on Xendrik for reasons relating to the power of the Flame's binding on his 'real' body. The mechanic I would use (this is a campaign I've done a lot of prep for but not had occasion to run yet) is Taint from Heroes of horror. Exposure to the tainted dragonshards and a few other sources gradually causes depravity (mental taint) to build up, until the depravity exceeds teh limit allowed by the sufferer's wisdom, at which time the sufferer becomes a tainted raver (template from Heroes of Horror: essentially the person becomes permanently berserk and homocidal, though retaining just enough rationality to cast spells etc.).