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Kineticists have quite a few tricks. My level 1 kineticist can already choose between several different ranged and melee weapon abilities every single attack using 4 different damage types, can craft stone tools or a refreshing glass of ice water at-will, or make the same move or disappear, can...

Levistus seems like a good nemesis for a portal town built on cooperation.

Nope. Way too long to go with so few options. I'd start falling asleep at the table.

Toys are also the kind of thing you can pass on. My sibling's kids adore my old toys. By the time they're old enough to care about how old they are they'll be into video games.

If a dear friend of mine really wanted it and they provided good snacks, sure. I'd also play a 1E game or a Vampire: The Masquerade game for the same reasons. You have to have a pretty horrible game to be not worth playing with good friends, like FATAL or something.

My solution has just been: A gun is a very loud crossbow.

Vecna is actually septuplets, just one of their many secrets.

Waiting for people to make decisions.

I hang out on very acerbic forums you shouldn't give me a setup like that. :p Anyways, the game mechanics and lore need to match or else players cannot rely on them. A distinction without a difference is just noise.

Water can suffocate you and impede movement and there are skills and feats and abilities based on it, gravity is a constant factor throughout the game. The sky has a major impact on what kinds of environmental events can occur and what monsters can attack. You're describing a bunch of stuff...

As a newbie to the system I'm quite curious to see what changes they introduce to the lore through this. I've noticed quite a few gaps in the areas of my personal interest (elementals, naturally), and I'd love to see those fleshed out more.

I don't see it? You said the Dark Powers could just fudge it to make it look like they have souls so what's the actual visible-to-players difference? If Soulless people are immune to X but cannot resist Y there's at least something players can see.

If it doesn't do anything then what's the point? It's like "Everyone in Ravenloft has blue eyes but the dark powers make them all have a normal range of eye colors".

That at least can be an arbitrary DM ruling without extra work. The problem is what happens when a soulless person interacts with a abilities designed to work on people with souls.

The soulless thing could be really interesting if it did anything. Soulless villagers could be the best defense against certain monsters, while being easy for other monsters to possess. Just gotta actually do game design.

In TSR-era D&D they were very... chainmail bikini about things. Nymphs even had magical gamer girl bathwater. In contrast, 4E dryads were basically curvy ents.

Dryads are more common in D&D simply because they were easier to turn into monsters that did something other than be sexualized.

Could have some interesting outcomes, but really needs mechanics to keep it from being a headache in play.

D&D has its own soul lore, no need to play with real world stuff. Resurrection spell results also mandate the consent of the soul. Night Hags trap souls. Barghests consume souls. Devourers ...devour souls.

For me it's just that being soulless has mechanical consequences, or at least requires the game to add "but the Dark Powers make sure this has no impact". Some of these are interesting - a soul-eating being would be ravenous! Some of these are awkward - all corrupted soul type undead are...