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This occurs for all kinds of reasons. First and foremost is that the "dark character" or the "Anti-Hero" often is one of the most...

Quite frankly a lot of parties can get themselves stymied if they always ignore Wizards, because invariably they will form themselves...

Anyone using Bastions? That was 5E24's "experimental" rule system that WotC had never done before. If anyone says they need WotC to be...

2e was fantastic for this: Complete Priest's Handbook (introduces forces and philosophies, and underpowered followers of generic...

Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, and Serpent Kingdoms are my favorites from 3e. And I love the the three Faith's & Avatars books from 2e.

I actually tell my players not to ask to make a check in D&D, because I might just let them succeed without it. "Asking to roll is...

You know with something like this, what's really interesting is the often unstated (or unexamined) motivations for how we each choose to...

But seriously, to me it seems people are mostly just throwing around disconnected bits of mechanics. I think one needs to start by...

Eye of the Tyrant.

That’s the thing. A psion - any psion - is needed for WotC to make Dark Sun. And WotC need to make Dark Sun for it to be open to 3PP. If...

Or maybe just maybe the number of people such as yourself who actually want an entirely different system for psionic powers in Dungeons...

That is not why they stopped working on the Mystic. They stopped working on the Mystic cause the feedback was overwhelmingly negative...

That could be a valid reason, but in that case why bother making all four pairs of Disciplines? If they wanted Psions to focus or lean...

Perhaps its intentional to emulate the aspects of "mind" magic they feel are important?

Yeah, it's one of the issues I have with mental ability scores in general. At what point do you draw the line from what the numbers...