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ProfessorDetective reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with
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The Mystic got canned because Mearls was trying to make a single class capable of doing everything but with psionics. Yeah, the system... -
ProfessorDetective reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
Or maybe just maybe the number of people such as yourself who actually want an entirely different system for psionic powers in Dungeons...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to GarrettKP's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
Calling survey results the “Vocal Few” is a reach. We don’t know the number of survey responses they get, and we also don’t know how or...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to GarrettKP's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
That is not why they stopped working on the Mystic. They stopped working on the Mystic cause the feedback was overwhelmingly negative...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
Does it bother anyone else that the metamorph's bone blade isn't light so they can't TWF? Whenever I think of characters in fiction who...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
Yeah, this alone is why I'm in favor of psionics as spells. I can barely remember the rules for magic, combat, skill checks and whatever...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Kobold Avenger's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
The ability to bypass magic in earlier editions combined with the DM having to learn a completely new system lead to an instant ban of...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
The only things Psionics not being magic really bypassed were Counterspell (boo!), Dispel Magic, Magic Resistance (not a thing in 5e but...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Selas's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
The post below perfectly encapsulates why WotC won't go the route you want. Fact is, old psionics ability to bypass magic was considered...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Neonchameleon's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
It depends what you mean by "spell slots". I'm fine with them in principle - but I am not fine with every casting class except one...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Twiggly the Gnome's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
I'm actually fine with spell slots, they're just discreet quanta of power points. It's the individual spells that I find to be...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Leatherhead's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
No, the opportunity to do something different happened in 2015. And 2016, and 2017. The player base kept rejecting psionics "being...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Kobold Stew's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
Overall, this is a substantial improvement. For me, the highlight is the Psykineticist's Boost ability -- all of a sudden an ability...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to Kurotowa's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
To a degree, that's a limitation of the spells. Wizards get nearly all the general purpose spells, and other classes get exclusive...
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ProfessorDetective reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread Unearthed Arcana New Psion update, Dungeons and Dragons Unearthed Arcana with Like.
30 foot telepathy is at least not egregiously aweful like 10ft was… But it still feels like a bad joke.