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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7409977" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>I always hated psionics back in the day. When adapting 2e to my ongoing AD&D campaign, I scrapped the psionicist out of hand and - I kid you not - replaced psionics with a school of Mysticism.</p><p></p><p>So, by all rights I should be delighted by the idea - it took almost 30 years but the idea's vindicated, right.</p><p></p><p>No. 30 years ago there was no Sorcerer class, meant to represent natural/instinctive/inborn-talent magic-use, and desperately short of sub-classes, nor was there already a Warlock sub-class with telepathy. I mean, we already have a sorcerer and a Warlock sub-class that outright poach Cleric spells, so there's further precedent for having either of them horn in on the mystic, rather than the wizard.</p><p></p><p>Plus, this isn't some sophomoric kid's home game where expressing a prejudice against psionics is only going to hurt a few of his friends for 5 or 6 years, this is effing D&D-for everybody, kumbaya, edition-peace-in-our-time 5e, and fans of psionics have watched the mystic languish in playtest purgatory for years.</p><p></p><p>Kill some trees, put the mystic in print. Better yet, call it a Psion or psionicist and leave whether it's magic or not to the DM. </p><p></p><p>Those of us who have always felt psionics are a sci-fi bit with no business in our fantasy can not play it or ban it or call it magic, but fans of psionics will be able to play what they want at other tables.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7409977, member: 996"] I always hated psionics back in the day. When adapting 2e to my ongoing AD&D campaign, I scrapped the psionicist out of hand and - I kid you not - replaced psionics with a school of Mysticism. So, by all rights I should be delighted by the idea - it took almost 30 years but the idea's vindicated, right. No. 30 years ago there was no Sorcerer class, meant to represent natural/instinctive/inborn-talent magic-use, and desperately short of sub-classes, nor was there already a Warlock sub-class with telepathy. I mean, we already have a sorcerer and a Warlock sub-class that outright poach Cleric spells, so there's further precedent for having either of them horn in on the mystic, rather than the wizard. Plus, this isn't some sophomoric kid's home game where expressing a prejudice against psionics is only going to hurt a few of his friends for 5 or 6 years, this is effing D&D-for everybody, kumbaya, edition-peace-in-our-time 5e, and fans of psionics have watched the mystic languish in playtest purgatory for years. Kill some trees, put the mystic in print. Better yet, call it a Psion or psionicist and leave whether it's magic or not to the DM. Those of us who have always felt psionics are a sci-fi bit with no business in our fantasy can not play it or ban it or call it magic, but fans of psionics will be able to play what they want at other tables. [/QUOTE]
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