Goonhub
03-06-2025, 10:28 AM
This antag idea has been floating in my brain for a while, and I recently shared it on the discord, and it’s been received pretty well, so I decided I’ll try here too. This is mostly conceptualization to decide which of my ideas are good and which are bad and should be changed.
I feel like a antag focused around psychic abilities of various kinds would be very cool. We have wizards, vampires, wraiths and arcfiends, having a psychic would be very fitting for the setting imo. I wanted it to be like sleeper agents, a random event later into the round, around about half way through where a few random non-antags are ‘awakened’, given antag status and various powers.
This would be a antag kind of similar to wraith or vamp where they slowly increase in power. As time progress they grow more powerful but also more unstable, until they gain a fate much like Tetsuo from Akira. Psychics will have various routes to go down, like Wraith they can level up and pick from a choice of options of what type of powers they want. For the first level I imagine they get only one ability, something weak and discrete like lifting an object with your mind. There will be 4 levels, and your last level, or your endgame will be wraith or revenant level threat, and it’ll already be too late as their death will always cause immense destruction.
The paths I imagined for the psychic so far have been pyromaniac, thaumaturgy, cosmomancer, Psion, perhaps even a psychic focused on technology. How you obtain these different types will involve various methods, some will be always available, while others will take several conditions to be met before you can become one.
Pyromancer will obvious have devastating heat based abilities. thaumaturgy will pretty much be a pretty basic psychic with revenant like abilities focused on telekinesis, but still very powerful. Cosmomancer will be similar to thaumaturgy but more on space warping, they will get teleportation powers, abilities to create black hole projectiles, and various other things. Psion will have abilities focused on others brains, mass hallucinations, causing immense brain damage, and also an ability similar to Qud’s sunder mind which would mean they could explodes peoples head after a few seconds. A tech type psychic is still something I haven’t quite figured out but I’m open to ideas and still thinking of more.
My problem so far is how a psychic would go from basically bending spoons with their mind to Tetsuo from Akira. They would be a very aggressive antag that people would feel the need to have to kill before they can become full powered, especially combined with the fact they are a midround antag. I imagine in order to progress they have to use their powers, and also experience ‘inspirations’ which involve witnessing certain things, such as witnessing someone dying near you, or looking at very hot plasma, something varied and that I imagine would also be how you access certain final level psychic types. Every single endgame psychic will be pretty obvious and self-destructive, almost always involving the psychic dying in the end, with each having a special destructive death, like pyromancer will explode into tons of flaming plasma, cosmomancer will become a blackhole, and I still haven’t quite figured out the rest.
This antag is still pretty rough in my mind, but I would love your ideas and feedback. It might take me a bit before I start actually trying to work on this, but this is a start. Might make a player-project on the discord when I flesh this out more. Sorry if this was badly written!
I feel like a antag focused around psychic abilities of various kinds would be very cool. We have wizards, vampires, wraiths and arcfiends, having a psychic would be very fitting for the setting imo. I wanted it to be like sleeper agents, a random event later into the round, around about half way through where a few random non-antags are ‘awakened’, given antag status and various powers.
This would be a antag kind of similar to wraith or vamp where they slowly increase in power. As time progress they grow more powerful but also more unstable, until they gain a fate much like Tetsuo from Akira. Psychics will have various routes to go down, like Wraith they can level up and pick from a choice of options of what type of powers they want. For the first level I imagine they get only one ability, something weak and discrete like lifting an object with your mind. There will be 4 levels, and your last level, or your endgame will be wraith or revenant level threat, and it’ll already be too late as their death will always cause immense destruction.
The paths I imagined for the psychic so far have been pyromaniac, thaumaturgy, cosmomancer, Psion, perhaps even a psychic focused on technology. How you obtain these different types will involve various methods, some will be always available, while others will take several conditions to be met before you can become one.
Pyromancer will obvious have devastating heat based abilities. thaumaturgy will pretty much be a pretty basic psychic with revenant like abilities focused on telekinesis, but still very powerful. Cosmomancer will be similar to thaumaturgy but more on space warping, they will get teleportation powers, abilities to create black hole projectiles, and various other things. Psion will have abilities focused on others brains, mass hallucinations, causing immense brain damage, and also an ability similar to Qud’s sunder mind which would mean they could explodes peoples head after a few seconds. A tech type psychic is still something I haven’t quite figured out but I’m open to ideas and still thinking of more.
My problem so far is how a psychic would go from basically bending spoons with their mind to Tetsuo from Akira. They would be a very aggressive antag that people would feel the need to have to kill before they can become full powered, especially combined with the fact they are a midround antag. I imagine in order to progress they have to use their powers, and also experience ‘inspirations’ which involve witnessing certain things, such as witnessing someone dying near you, or looking at very hot plasma, something varied and that I imagine would also be how you access certain final level psychic types. Every single endgame psychic will be pretty obvious and self-destructive, almost always involving the psychic dying in the end, with each having a special destructive death, like pyromancer will explode into tons of flaming plasma, cosmomancer will become a blackhole, and I still haven’t quite figured out the rest.
This antag is still pretty rough in my mind, but I would love your ideas and feedback. It might take me a bit before I start actually trying to work on this, but this is a start. Might make a player-project on the discord when I flesh this out more. Sorry if this was badly written!