Recent content by pukunui

You don’t need to convince me!

Yeah, that makes sense. Of course.

“The Wire” was good, but this Mirror Universe “Crossover” is kinda weird. Like what’s with Mirror Kira being in love with our Kira? Like WTF?! That’s pretty messed up. And how convenient that, despite the historical circumstances being so different, so many of the regular cast members still...

LOL. There's obviously more to it than merely thinking about it. This version presents psionics as another kind of magic. It works differently from the psionics of old. This version occasionally requires an external focus (material component). The only one I agree with you on is the cantrip. I...

Psions aren’t proficient with shields and swords anyway, so … plus spellcasters can’t cast spells if they’re wearing armor they’re not proficient in, so that seems fair.

Cool. I was expecting this to be out in the theatres but it went straight to streaming, eh? Which one is it on again?

That’s why I like the sorcerer’s approach with the Subtle Spell metamagic option. Manifesting magic without any visible means that you’re the one doing it should be a deliberate choice that requires resources. Not the default.

I have the XPH. I've even played a psion from that book. It was fun. However, 5e doesn't have those thematics, and hand gestures are such a common visual cue (regardless of their necessity) that it seems fitting to me that psions in D&D should need to make some kind of noticeable gesture to use...

🤷 I like the idea that a psion has to use somatic components so they can't just stand there innocently like they're not doing anything when actually they're invading someone's mind or causing something to explode. It lets the game world know that this person is doing something even if it isn't...

I don't think I'll ever play 3.5e again, but I do think the psionic rules presented in the Expanded Psionics Handbook remain the best iteration of them in the game so far.

The fact that there's a TV Tropes page for psychic power somatic components tells me they are pretty common even outside of Star Wars. Are visual cues necessary? Perhaps. Perhaps not.

The camera conveniently crops his hands out of the picture so we don't know if he's wiggling his fingers or not. He does, however, close his eyes in order to concentrate. That could still be counted as a somatic component. A better example would be Rey when she's mind tricking the stormtrooper...

Go with yellow then and tell them you want focus points instead of spell slots. If you go with red during the feedback survey, you won't give a chance to tell them what you actually want.

Fallout 4 was the last game I played on my PC. Got bored with it and didn't finish the Far Harbor DLC. Have been considering starting over and doing a BoS run with no settlements. My wife has been playing a lot of Stardew Valley on the PC, so at the moment, the only games I'm playing are...

That's because they were just recycling existing art. There's no new art in that video at all. The guy with the glasses mentally zapping a troglodyte is the illustration of the Mind Sliver cantrip in Tasha's, for instance.