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Psychic ability for DBees

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If, under a race's psychic abilities' description, it states: Standard, does that mean that that particular race could have a few Mind Melters, or other Master Psychics, since, I'm assuming standard for humans includes the possibility of such?
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Correct. Standard means “just like humans”.
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I think Standard means 'same as humans'. But remember that that standard is variable to which setting is being played and what that setting allows.

So if the char is native to rifts earth, then char could be giving, by the player, a PCC or just roll to see if the char is a major or minor psion.
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Or games like N&SS, TMNT or Nightbane which seem to altogether forgo psychic abilities unless you actually select them via class or racial powers.
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Ok, cool. Was just wondering, cause there was a Palladium Fantasy race, that said Standard for Psionics, but didn't list a psychic class for options in rifts or palladium, and I thought a character of that race would make a cool master psionic PC or NPC (they are a big brute race, so figgered it wouldn't be expected).
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Most of the time if the race does not say the members of the race can't have psionics or defines what psionics every member of the race has, the race has the same pionic potential as humans.
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i say yes except for Mind bleeders and psi-stalkers, those are mutant variants of (only) humans
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mercedogre wrote:i say yes except for Mind bleeders and psi-stalkers, those are mutant variants of (only) humans


Actually, they arent. At the very least, Amaki (WB9) can be both. And i know ive seen a few other races that can be Psi Stalkers.
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And Mind Bleeders, BTB, aren't even human, but a D-Bee who simply looks really human.
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Worth noting that 'D-Bee' and 'human' are not mutually exclusive, since humans from other dimensions are also D-Bees, so anybody is a D-Bee when they visit another dimension.

Also worth considering that Psi-Stalkers are sometimes not considered 'true' humans, so we could possibly take with a grain of salt how 'inhuman' mind bleeders are.
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Mark Hall wrote:And Mind Bleeders, BTB, aren't even human, but a D-Bee who simply looks really human.


Isn't there a Mind Bleeder race and then a Mind Bleeder class? like its an actual race but then a number of other races/classes got access to the Mind Bleeder racial psionics?
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Nightmartree wrote:
Mark Hall wrote:And Mind Bleeders, BTB, aren't even human, but a D-Bee who simply looks really human.


Isn't there a Mind Bleeder race and then a Mind Bleeder class? like its an actual race but then a number of other races/classes got access to the Mind Bleeder racial psionics?

Maybe
It has been retconned back and forth several times to the point now that the canon basically goes both ways. Basically right now it is 'what ever the author of the current book wants it to be'
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There is only a Mind Bleeder RCC just like there is only a Psi-Stalker RCC. Mind Bleeder was not reprinted in RUE so it could not be updated to an OCC like Psi-Stalker was.
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Axelmania wrote:There is only a Mind Bleeder RCC just like there is only a Psi-Stalker RCC. Mind Bleeder was not reprinted in RUE so it could not be updated to an OCC like Psi-Stalker was.

Which doesn't answer anything because all psychics were RCCs in RMB even the human ones.
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