Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
What until I get back home, and I'll see what I can do.Link? Im curious.
What until I get back home, and I'll see what I can do.Link? Im curious.
What issue is there with the Warlock class?But I actually agree that there is an issue with warlock and sorcerer, just not what the cause is.
Oh, mainly just that it way too strongly encourages focusing on Eldritch blast spamming. I like the class chassis a lot and I feel it could easily do more. It is a bit boring that regardless of the theme, basically every warlock uses the same spell as their attack cantrip. Or you don't have to, but it is really suboptimal.What issue is there with the Warlock class?
I'm in favor of them being their own class, and not happy with any of the existing options. "Just refluff an existing option" is what I'm arguing against.
So really, when it comes to the spell slot mechanism, it's basically independent from how the magic is used in the setting. It's just the way that magic functions. So, given that, there's not really a particularly good reason not to use the standard spell slot progression. If it's good enough for the sorcerer then I guess it has to be good enough for the Psion.
Too late. Monks exist.But sure, Psion could be its own class. I don't think these is a huge opposition to that. What I oppose is designing some bizarre parallel magic system for one class.
Apart from in 3e and 4e...And the psychic walks right through and mind blasts the wizard because psionics is not magic. No matter what chassis is used the build the psychic class, this is what many consider fundamental. Anti-magic stuff does not stop psychic powers.
Which I believe influenced Green Ronin's Blue Rose and what would become the True 20 system.Definitely a new system rather than a reskin of magic and/or the 1st-9th spell level set up. Personally, the only D&D/d20/d20M mechanic that I have liked was the mechanics in Green Ronin's Psychic's Handbook.
Why? Who says what psionics (a made up name for a made up thing) can and cannot do? Why can't my psionic character shoot fireballs out of their fingertips?As I've said, regardless of how much psionics is like magic, if you reskin a caster as a psionic, you are intentionally making your character less powerful/versatile to fit a theme.
Transporters where invented because the VFX to land a shuttlecraft on a planet was too expensive for TV in the 1970s, it had nothing to do with science. Warp drive is a devise for transporting characters between planets at the speed of plot. I've read the scientific paper on Warp Drive. It works as a thought experiment, but makes no bones about requiring something that does not exist - negative mass. In other words, it works by magic.Bringing back a previous post, warp drive, transporters, replicators, and phasers are all also things that are based in physics in that setting and actually work. Are they just like magic?
Transporters where invented because the VFX to land a shuttlecraft on a planet was too expensive for TV in the 1970s, it had nothing to do with science. Warp drive is a devise for transporting characters between planets at the speed of plot. I've read the scientific paper on Warp Drive. It works as a thought experiment, but makes no bones about requiring something that does not exist - negative mass. In other words, it works by magic.
In many fantasy settings magic is simply "the physics of that setting". Made up science isn't "just like magic" it is magic.