From the introduction: Psychic Powers are called Psionic Skills. They are bought at Character Generation with the characters Starting Skill Points, and new Psionic Skills are bought and raised through IP the same as normal skills. However Psionic Skills can do things no skill ever could, they can manipulate minds, unleash a psychic onslaught, and even sunder reality. A character that decides to become Psionic will take the role Psion.