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Kalani is correct about the APL. We design the first three to be optimized for an APL of 11th, 12th, & 13th respectively. The follow-up trilogy will focus on 14th, 15th, & 16th levels. That said, like other DDAL adventures, there is guidance for scaling the encounters. The combat tends to be on...

I'll out myself. :)

Holy freaking cow.. that is what you are proposing? That a caster can use his reaction to cast counterspell in the middle of casting Scorching Ray and it will not break his cast of the original spell? The problems with that proposal are self evident in my mind. Fist of all, why bother to have...

Actually.. no this cannot occur under the rules. The first spell is interrupted, either by the Counterspell or the caster stopping his cast to then cast to counter the counterspell.. which is stupid to do. Why would you counterspell a counterspell? You have to stop casting your spell to do it...

First of all.. this is not worth getting that upset over. It's an opinion. I talked to Mearls at Gen Con 2013 and at that time, the Psion was slated to be subclass of the Mage.. now changed to the Wizard. That's a year an a half ago. Some of us have been testing this stuff for longer than since...

Actually, I quoted the supporting rule.. that being the trigger required to cast Counterspell. You're right about there being no rule that says you can't react to a reaction. I'll clarify. You can't cast a Counterspell as a reaction to Counterspell because the required trigger doesn't exist. How...

Only because at one point they were going to include it. It was slated to be a sub-class of the Mage during beta, if you recall. That was summer 2013. They decided it needed more attention and put it off. Cool. But now we are a year and a half later and still nothing on the horizon, that I know...

That is a melee attack reaction. Of coarse you can do that. I'm talking about a reaction spell.

There really is no grey area. You cannot cast Counterspell a Counterspell because you are concentrating on casting the first spell. To cast any spell, you must concentrate long enough to cast it. Even a spell that only requires a bonus action to cast, still requires enough concentration to get...

I admit that I have a huge bias in favor of psionics, but at this point, it feels like they are avoiding it. I do get that tackling psionics is a huge undertaking as Mearls has already said it needs to be its own class and it will require much thought and they want to make sure they do it right...

Abilities that should have been unique to psionics have been flavored as magical and they have now become accepted as magical powers. This works because the powers are fundamental and wizards are a cardinal class and you can technically justify that effect through tapping into the Weave. You...

OK, I think I understand what you mean now and I agree with that. That is why I was so adamant about including Psionics in the initial offering of the players Handbook because I think that there are certain class defining abilities such as telekinesis, teleportation, etc... that should have...

That's the Wild Talent idea. That's a fine, just make it a feat like they did for priest or arcane spells. Don't bake it into a campaign setting though. I may want to run a Forgotten Realms campaign that includes Psionics. It must be a free standing module that can be inserted or removed from...

I would actually prefer the Spell Point system (5e DMG) to be used for Psionics.

I think it's a mistake to try to make Psionics an add-on system like it was in AD&D. In my mind, that's the reason is was a failure in 1st ed. and has held on to a bad rap since then. If it is something that some characters simply have a chance at having, then those characters will be...