Search results

Guess who doesn't work at WotC anymore? Any of the people who said stuff like that! Kyle Brink, who is the individual who called Dark Sun "problematic" (correctly, it is, but it doesn't have to be) left pretty soon after we even found he existed! Crawford and Perkins didn't call it...

That's an awful lot of words to fundamentally not disagree with what I'm saying. I guess you did say you were nuancing it, so I can't complain! But as I've repeatedly pointed out, it is 5E specifically that always gets suggested. It's literally never the editions you're discussing. No-one comes...

A more flexible system where you spend a point-based resource to do smaller things, rather than the computer program-like "packages" that D&D's spells offer. Why? Because that's what psionic-style magic looks like in fantasy fiction in general (frequent mutable smaller effects), and it's also a...

I honestly don't think it's a problem if WotC releases their own take on Dark Sun, which isn't the same as the fan take or previous takes. The fan community for Dark Sun is surprisingly active (far more active than many recent settings, including most 5E ones), and they're focused on basically...

Crawford isn't using 5E though, which is what's usually suggested, but a very heavily modified OSR variant of D&D, which is in fact, basically its own generic RPG at this point, with a ton of peculiarities specific to it, and also capable of mechanically doing a bunch of stuff that literally no...

I'm sorry, are you trying to all seriousness argue that a very much non-generic, heroic fantasy-specific RPG is "basically the same" as RPGs intentionally and consciously designed to be generic and genre-mutable? Because you should pull the other one, that one has bells on! That's just funny...

Nah, D&D is the one that had a problem here because for decades the "fantasy zeitgeist" included a "big guy" race, and usually a "beast person" race and so on, and D&D didn't have either of those in a corebook until 4E with Dragonborn, where it combined them in a very clunky and un-zeitgeist-y...

Not quite either. I mean, all the architects of 5E, who were also all its biggest fans/cheerleaders at WotC, Mearls, Crawford, Perkins have left WotC now. Mearls a bit back and Crawford and Perkins recently. I forget who is taking over (I think we do know), but I suspect they'll quite...

Blue Rose does it by having a whole bunch of "Arcana", which can be anything from your body counting as a magic weapon to telepathy to various kinds of -kinesis (all call "X shaping"), many of them involving you making tests to do stuff rather than automatically succeeding like D&D does out of...

I mean, I think it's more that people know what it isn't. And it isn't spell slots and D&D-style "computer program" spells. I agree re: "more useful", but sometimes you have to acknowledge people knowing what something isn't and agreeing on that even more than they know what something is.

I mean, that's a bit silly. That's like having a system which does superpowers really, really badly (and oh god there are a fair few systems, especially bolt-ons to generic games which do superpowers really badly), and saying "Nyaahhhh you can't say these superpowers are badly done because...

I'm sorry I don't buy it. I've seen discussions involving D&D there and they're almost all harmless, and just mentioning D&D doesn't get people leaping on you unless you're proposing it as a "good generic system" or something equally absolutely demented.

You jest but I'm not sure you're entirely wrong on this one! I will be very interested to see the context of the book that this appears in (assuming it doesn't meet The Fate Of All Psions), like will this be just a generalized psionics book like the Forge of the Artificer is a generalized...

Mate with love - and I do like your posts, let's be clear - you sometimes seem to actively butt into conversations to tell people how you don't like narrative stuff, when like, no-one is saying you can't or shouldn't. I mean, I know, I know but you don't have to kick every ball, and I say that...

I'd disagree quite strongly with that. I think the exact opposite has happened - gamism has become so completely normalized, particularly as all WotC editions of D&D have been primarily gamist in their design approach (albeit three different ways of doing gamism), contrary to the clumsy mixture...

The subreddit overall isn't nasty to D&D-related discussions nor sneers on people saying they play D&D or the like so I can't see it as overall "hostile to D&D", even if some individual posters dislike it (and they often get downvoted if they're particularly sassy, I will note). I will say that...

Your design is definitely a lot better than this, let's be clear! I would put it as one of the best 3PP Psion-type designs. Nevertheless this might be all we can expect from WotC now. Especially as imho 5E has probably less than 5 years left of being the "main" D&D.

They could definitely do better. They already did. All the earlier "proper" Mearls-era Mystic Psion needed was the nerfing of certain specific abilities and maybe a bit of a rethink to make it more focused. Otherwise it was good to go, and well within 5E's bounds. But I guess the issue is 5E...

What on earth spaces are you talking about? Even the purple site, which is hostile to most things at this point (including most games and most people), isn't hostile to D&D. Or like, no more hostile than it is to like, every game that isn't some random FotM (which will soon join the list of...

Yeah honestly I'm going to be positive about this in feedback because WotC have shown for a long time how they implement a class in one edition isn't a strong precedent for how it works in another one.