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So I'm helping a friend of mine create his own system (I keep trying to dissuade him, but he's adamant. Ah, youth) and we just had a discussion this point. Him: I want there to be mounted combat specialists in my game! Me: That's great, but what happens when you can't have or use your mount...

I mean, it's not that there isn't a solution, if you see a problem. It's just that it's confusing to present what seems to be a problem to solve, then immediately hand people the tools to solve it. It'd be like, I don't know, someone said "ok, so the problem with a bow is you need arrows...

Hm. Probably the Wilder (3.5). Or the Erudite (non busted version). If Prestige Classes count, I really really wanted to like the Meta-Mind, but it doesn't really work. Oh but the Cerebremancer was a cool idea!

No, only 1d4+1 turns.

Yeah, I think that was more born of 3e wanting to draw a clear line between Aberrations, the Far Realm, and Psionics. Personally, my favorite psionic race is the Shardmind (though I have a soft spot for Dromites and Blues).

Doh! I admit, the thread really got away from me. People started posting stuff that wasn't really on topic, but who was I to stop them? Just as long as we don't get a new round of the Psychic Wars, that is (I'm a Veteran of them, got the PTSD to prove it, lol).

As a DM, I like using the occasional psionic threat as something that exists, but is poorly understood by the players. When they fought Duergar in my current game, I pointed out that they weren't using magic to become invisible or grow in size, which led to a bit of confusion, lol. Of course...

Technically, it's your fault- you told me to start a thread!

Instead we have both, and it's been a thorn in a lot of people's sides for a long time.

What Dausuul said, basically. The answer has to be campaign-dependent. If your campaign world has complex celestial mechanics, then the answer is probably "no", a Wish can't do this, or at least, not in the way you want (you get an illusion of an eclipse, you are shunted in time, and so on)...

Pretty much, yeah. I mean, what does it say when the game has rules for exhaustion, starvation, and exposure to elements, like these are meant to be big hurdles, then gives the players abilities that lets them laugh these things off by level 5 at the latest?

I think the problem is more that, in these kinds of situations, a lot of your character's abilities become pointless, since most things that aren't combat-related are spells. That having been said, 2024 has tried to fix this a little- Fighters and Barbarians can use some of their combat prowess...

I'm reminded of a 4e skill challenge in a LFR mod where we had to cross a desert in Calimshan, and I was like "hey, my Cleric has a ritual that creates phantom steeds we can ride, as well as another that gives us food and water" and the DM sighed and kindly asked me not to, or there wouldn't be...

Everyone knows Jedi are Space Wizards! And Sith are Sorcerers (at least, according to that guy who got Force Choked on the Death Star).

Neat! I just remember the problems of doing this in the last Star Wars game (Fantasy Flight), and trying to make the process of rolling funky dice exciting.

Lol. Well I recall someone in that thread talking about how there was a Dragon issue with stats for single-celled organisms, so they mentioned a "Fantastic Voyage" scenario they put their PC's through.

There was just a thread last week I think, about shrinking down PC's to tiny size!

Having psionics be spells is certainly easier, but at that point, you're just creating another spellcasting class- which I don't think the game needs. We're already lousy with them. It may be tilting at windmills, but I feel the game could stand to have a better defined "supernatural power...

I think the problem is, your DM would have to be one hell of a storyteller to turn what is, in effect, a series of die rolls, into a visceral action sequence like say, the market chase from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Then again, this is the same problem with combats, so I guess if you've solved...

I'm reminded of this bit from the Malloreon. Garion, the current Chosen One, uses his magic to create a mighty storm as an intimidation tactic to stop a war. Doing so, however, caused total chaos for the world's weather patterns, spawning storm systems that ran rampant, forcing another magician...