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I like multiple different things in my cities. At one end, you have Ptolus, which is a maximalist city setting, which hundreds of...

Sure, but the DMG clearly says if the DM allows it, you can buy magic items. No magic item purchases is the default state and the DM...

I've played with several 5e DMs and run the game myself and have never encountered that. Some of them have had some shops with a few...

The default state of magic items is no magic mart. You need to find a DM that allows sales, and then allows sales of anything you want...

Like everything else with Psionics, it widely varied. The 2e psionicist had to pick a primary discipline (one of the five options) and...

That chart just reminded me why I don't play Rolemaster. My eyes glazed over trying to read it! 🤣

That's true, but I don't think there are any comparables to psionics other than spellcasting, which can be countered, dispelled, etc...

Not that it's a direct comparison, but there are a lot of "magical" abilities spread out amongst the classes they have no counter and...

At the time, a really good 3pp company (I forget the name) had done a revised 3.5 psionics system for PF. So while there was fans who...

Insofar as nothing is truly needed, you are correct. However, the game is balanced with the monsters weighed against class abilities...

It sort of has to be magic to be affected by magic resistance. :P

Yeah, I think so. The game is balanced around player abilities, not monster abilities. So the monster's need to have powers that can't...

Now all those AI illustrations of D&D characters with extra fingers make sense...

When I say "fit in," I mean so that dispel magic, counterspell, magic resistance, etc. will interact with it. Psionics becomes a...

@Paul Farquhar I just looked at those two subclasses and neither of them says or implies psionics draws from the far realm. The...