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Except in D&D what's happening is almost the opposite of what you describe. The Cleric prays to an otherworldly power who crams a set of instructions into the clerics brain. The cleric follows the instructions and magic happens but he doesn't understand why particularly. The Wizard performs...

Isn't "Supernatural power that comes from within" the exact description of the 3e Sorcerer? Are you ok with that class, or do you think the Psion should kill him and take his niche?

Psionics, as a concept, only goes back to the 1950s and the early attempts to scientifically analyze "Psychic" abilities and to see if they have any validity. (Long story short, maybe but not reliably.) So, for my money, they don't really have a place in a fantasy game based on earlier models...

Also DragonStar and the Futuristic Weapons from the 3.5 DMG.

Said story can be found here. :)

I auggested some in post 22, but for others.... In going with the twisting of natural law theme have elemental spells start producing side effects from the wrong element. Fireballs leave behind corroded and dissolved slag. A Cone of Cold leave a flickering coating of hoar frost that consumes...

I play tested early 5e and liked what I saw. I'm having account trouble that's kept me from seeing the last couple of playtest packets but it seems that they are still making large scale changes and playing with basic structural elements like classes/sub-classes. And yet they've already said...

Well. I've read through it, but I doubt very much I understand it. I see glimmers of real cleverness there, and obviously you've put a lot of thought, research and effort into this. With what's been presented so far however I'm left with very little idea about how any of it may be used. I'm...

Sounds like a great campaign, I'm jealous of your players. The twisting of divine magic is a really clever tool, and I think there's more than one way to twist it. For example at the start the power vaccum left by the gods might be filled by the alien gods of the far realms themselves. Healing...

That's an interesting world. Although the axis of conflict that springs to my mind in that setting is individualism vs society. A group of rugged individualists who have to negotiate everything seperately internally and externally is much less efficient in many, many ways than a more structured...

I think you confirmed my point actually. All 4e classes are equally complex so your player who had been avoiding the morass of options that is a 3e Wizard tried one because he might as well. Yes all 4e classes were (pre-essentials) the same complexity but that bar was set rather higher than an...

- Underline added for emphasis. There ya go. Willfull ignorance is exactly what "Hiding under a rock" means. There were aspects of the game that did not interest you, and you paid them no mind. That does not mean they weren't there. They were, trust us. I think people are slightly more...

Classes, as noted, serve many purposes. They serve as useful buckets of abilites tied to playstyles and perhaps roles or fluff archetypes. They are not needed, but otoh while the Hero system has been around for almost 25 years now I've never found a group that actually used it for fantasy...

Well, this looks to me like a badwrongfun rant. I homebrew, what's wrong with you lazy people who play in different ways? You're all playing the same way, which is not the way I play and therefore wrong. You're supposed to be different just like I am! I'm under the impression you haven't...

Oops my bad. Well then. From the Pathfinder SRD. Barbarian Rage: "While in rage, a barbarian cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration." Spell casting:"Additionally...

AFAIK you can't cast while raging. Yah, here it is: "While raging, a barbarian cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except for Balance, Escape Artist, Intimidate, and Ride), the Concentration skill, or any abilities that require patience or concentration, nor can...

Yes and no. Towards the end of 2nd edition D&D was starting to look like a dead property. TSR had folded or was in enough trouble to no longer be the 800lb Gorilla in the room. This was the heydey of Rifts with Palladium books flying off the shelves. FASA was going strong with Shadowrun and...

D&D is not and never really has been a monlithic system. Even when it was only Chainmail as soon as you has two tables you had two sets of house rules. The OSR started, to my recollection, with 4e. Yes some people had ALWAYS been playing BECMI or 1e or 2e, but the end of 3e made it clear that...

Another thing to remember is that the Jedi Order, after the movies, was reconstructed by Luke Skywalker. Luke's Jedi training consisted of 1 starjumps worth of lessons, and then free training until he was ready to go to Dagobah for the Master level training. The school founded by Luke based on...

You suspect correctly. Aside from some names there is basically no overlap between the two. The lensman series has fast starships but no other form of interstellar communications. Due to alien interferance they also have no computers. So they had a problem of how to identify lawmen in a galaxy...