Recent content by Misanthrope Prime

On top of everything else, the art of the dark-skinned guy with white hair using psionic powers to fight gnolls in a desert while holding an obsidian knife always screamed Dark Sun to me.

Can you name a new KISS song from this century? Yet they routinely sell out stadiums and people get buried in branded KISS coffins. There's nothing wrong with playing the hits.

I feel like psionics have the choice of the astral (for 'good dreams') and far realm (for 'bad dreams').

That it's tolerated everywhere but Tyr sounds like a plot hook to me. "Oh, the dragon is flying around and eating all the virgins of the land!" Well yeah buddy you're a hero, slay that naughty word dragon. "Slavery is an intrinsic part of the culture of the Tablelands, it's very nuanced!" "Wow...

If WotC was explicit about all of their influences, what would the faculty of comparative mythology departments have to talk about in their abundant spare time?

The updated Dark Sun campaign setting should be: "John Brown gets isekai'd to Athas after Harper's Ferry, chaos ensues"

Here's another 4e-influenced prediction of mine: The 2024 version of the four elements monk no longer casts spells, and in 4e the monk was a psionic class. Now that they have the psion as a "fullcaster", maybe we'll see a psionic monk gish subclass as a eldritch knight equivalent to the psion's...

Also, another thing that came up; the "crystalline entity" being summoned by the summon astral entity spell makes me think we may see Shardminds as a race/species in whatever splatbook the psion also appears in.

My specific interpretation of psionics is "they must do yoga to activate their powers" as per OD&D, so you better be able to hold that Eka Pada Rajakapotasana as a somatic component of your 9th level spell

We said that in 2017 with the mystic. Just because it's got a UA doesn't mean it'll be official.

Who else would make a list of 35 brightly colored dragons with special magical powers?

And they say you don't have to be autistic to be into tabletop games

I simultaneously think eastern dragons belong in D&D but we also have too many damn dragon subtypes. In a perfect world, eastern dragons may have been the "neutral dragon" panoply instead of gem dragons (which just seem weird to me, a mishmash of ideas). But with fifteen "true dragons", I don't...

I feel like there have been three or four official hardcover books all about D&D dragons published in like the last couple of years. I can understand Fizban's but is the appetite really here for so many naughty word books about naughty word fictional animals? I also understand that like a lot of people...