Psionics (role-playing games)

Psionics, in tabletop role-playing games, is a broad category of fantastic abilities originating from the mind, similar to the psychic abilities that some people claim in reality. == Common features == Psionics are primarily distinguished, in most popular gaming systems, by one or more of the following: Magical or super/meta human-like abilities including: Extrasensory perception – learn secrets long forgotten, to glimpse the immediate future and predict the far future, to find hidden objects, and to know what is normally unknowable.

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