Is Empathy a Psi Power?

Since I have been playing this game I found myself making pure elemental characters such as my Elec/Elec/Elec Blaster, Ice/Ice/Ice Blaster, Dark/Dark/Dark Defender, Fire/Fire/Fire Scrapper, and Stone/Stone/Earth Tanker. I was thinking of making a Mind/Empathy Controller and was wondering if Emp can be considered Psi?

Empathy- understanding and entering into another's feelings
Fortitude-strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
Clear Mind- self explanatory

It can absolutely be considered/played-as a Psi Power.

It can be played as a number of things, but a Psi Power fits very well, in my omnipotent decree!



I've had two Empaths who both have an element of psychic abilities regarding that powerset.
One (an alien) combines their psychic abilities with some advanced technology to be able to heal and mend and boost with great proficiency.
The other has psychic powers and it can play a role in some of the Empath powers, but it also involves elements of telekinesis (to a microscopic level) as well as a tad bit of reality manipulation and such (My only cosmic level character... though still... very subdued).

Best of luck and enjoy!!

To me Empathy (and Force Field) easily translates to Psi.

Empathy is one of those sets that can go either way. You could write it off as magic, play it with the psi spin, heck, you could explain it away as a nano-machine swarm that your tech hero uses to mend allies wounds.

One particularly fun way I've played it is to make an Emp/Dark defender, and tint the empathy the lightest shade of yellow and second lightest of gold, and explained it away that they used light and dark magic, light to heal and bolster their allies, and darkness to attack their enemies. Plays rather well too.

Whatever suits the character.

For Seth, it's the power to take on the pain of others - for Phaele, it's the power to soothe the heart and body.

Same set, different interpretation.

I've always interpreted Empathy as being a Psionic powerset. Just about all the other powersets have an underlying theme to them, and I consider Empathy to be "Psionic buff/debuff" set, like how Thermal Radiation is the "Fire buff/debuff" set or Kinetics is the "Energy buff/debuff" set. (Of course, those sets all vary in their position on the buff/debuff scale)

If Empathy weren't Psionic, it would just be the "Generic buff/debuff" set and not have any character to it.

Seems psi enough. Madness Mages are empathy.

Empathy is whatever you want it to be.

Remember, very few of the powers in the set are actual hp buffs.

Sometimes for me it means battlefield triage and quick medical abilities, sometimes it means an overall increase in survivability due to combat training (as if Clear Mind and Recovery Aura were Leadership buffs), and sometimes it means the mystical artifice of crafting flesh and bone as if it were music from an instrument.

Absolutely. I offer one of my characters, the Watchmaker, as an example. He's your classic mutant psychic, a telepath and telekinetic.

Absolutely not. If it were a Psi power, it would be called "Psi Healing" or "Psi Support". You can make up stuff that's not in the game, but don't expect me to acknowledge it. #contraryjusttobecontrary

I am pretty sure you can be flexible with Empathy in regards to how it works. For my plant-emp troller, I have decided that her healing abilities are tied into the same source of power that allows her to summon plants and roots. (She is a living terraforming device, and can use her power to alter the shape of life around her, including the ability to summon plant life or heal the injured bodies of her allies)

Part of the fun is figuring out a way to tie all the power pools together into something coherent.

So if you want to make Empathy for your character a Psi ability, I see no reason why you can’t.

(edited): I mistook a friendly joke for a serious comment. I removed my remarks regarding said comment. (oops…)

I always considered it Psionic because it has to do with brain waves altering and affecting the area around you. ESP on steroids and such.

I started a Empathy/Psi defender instead becaused it fit the theme better. I did match the colors of the primary and secondary. Now I got to think of the storyline. I decided to make him a mutant.