Wiki Week: February and March

I should get better about posting to the blog when I update the wiki.

We’ve had two wiki weeks since the last update. I’ll just bundle up all the updates here in one spot:

Sidekicks

Sidekicks won two months running on Patreon, so there are four more sidekicks for your very low-power Psi-Wars games, or as allies to your PCs.

• The Performer: the rockstar princess, the dancing girl or the oddball Hm beat-poet.
• The Journalist: getting into your business, digging too deeply into a corporate scandal, or the smug Imperial vox.
• The Native Guide: the primitive alien companion or the tribal Westerly naturalist explorer; excellent allies for frontier marshals.
• The Academic: The prissy expert who needs to be escorted to an alien world where she can apply her expertise, or the essential foundation for an archaeologist who is getting into things he probably shouldn’t.

Other than the doctor, this covers pretty much all the relatively generic sidekicks I have.

Animal Companions

Subscribestar chose animal companions in February. This makes me happy, because we finally have some proper bestial allies on the wiki, and I feel like the template I’ve set up to handle this will work well. I’ve focused exclusive on Dog-like aliens, which have their own page now.

(My plan is to follow the Generic Space Bestiary template, and treat look-alike critters as the same animal handling specialty)

• The Hound: the Maradonian version of the dog.
• The Gerluk: the Stygian/Lithian dog.
• The Venom-Dog: a Morosian bug-dog.

I have more. It’s just a matter of getting around to them.

Psychokinesis

Finally, Subscribestar tied for March, so I broke the tie in favor of psychokinesis, as I’ve been messing with it a lot. I’ve been updating the major psi pages to remove the pure references to the book and replace them with enough reference material to make your character from the wiki exclusively, if necessary, but not so much as to replace the book. That is, I’ve tried to make it more convenient and consistent without violating copyright (I still want you to buy the books, and you still ultimately need them to know how these abilities work).

I’ve also added much expanded pyro- and cryokinesis to psychokinesis.