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Yeah but it’s like claiming that there’s no audience for Frank Zappa’s music because the general public thinks it’s too experimental. Psionics has always been a niche thing in D&D. You can come up with the mainstream version, but it’s an empty promise because, in so doing, you’re throwing away...

Or the comfortable inn of a fortified hamlet near a dark forest. The marketplace in a charming fishing town near a haunted island. The lecture hall of a university near an entrance to Hell. The knights room in a forlorn castle near a doomed city. The agora of a lush city-state near the ruins of...

Karameikos is a very good choice. A very different but equally interesting choice is Sharn, in Eberron.

The Mystic is versatile, fun, and distinctive. It's a very nicely built, attractive class which adds something to the game instead of rehashing the same mechanics over and over again. Most people who have playtested it claim that it is overpowered, which is a problem (a class should not be a...

I’ll never understand why anyone would look at every opportunity to reduce the number of options available to players and DMs.

I’m looking forward to Dark Sun! "Oh no! Magic is destroying the world. It’s a good thing that we can use an almost identical form of magic that is completely harmless."

You call it semantics, I call it the possibility to tell stories. When different concepts are brought together, you can compare them, confront them, mix them, use them to generate stories. If everything is the same, works the same, has the same name, you’re voluntarily making things dull, drab...

Then that part of the debate is meaningless. Everybody uses the same definition of homebrew except you, and for you it’s meaningless. Let’s move on, shall we?

I’ve played all those games. We enjoyed the classes and what they had to offer and not once did we dream of a different game with only two classes.

That’s cool, there are games like that, but it’s pretty much the opposite of D&D.

Bruce Heard’s Calidar setting shows that this could be extremely cool.

Me too! We called him "the DM"

I've had the same problem with poison. Poison is never expensive enough.

One of the cool things about D&D is its modular design. As a player, you pick a class, a race, a background and eventually, a subclass and other options. Each of these things comes with a series of toys: cool, flashy powers and abilities that players can use and enjoy. Yes, a Druid is not much...

I've done that already.

And this is a pizza:

You're right. In fact, now that I think of it, I could pick any class I like and call it "Psion", and hocus pocus, I'll have a Psion class I like.

My argument is that anyone has the right to be offended, and that we should listen to people who are offended. And I have to admit that you thinking that you understand my perspective better than I do is something I find quite offensive.

That's not entirely true, though, is it? As a European, I've had a couple of opportunities to get offended by the way European history is portrayed in American media. There's no such thing as "western history", really, and when it comes to American movies, series and games, I'm as much an...