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Yeah, if they were going to be remade, I kind of fall on the side of cleaving closer to historical and cultural accuracy not being a great approach. Western European fantasy is viewed through the lens of decades of self-facing inspiration, regurgitation, reinvention in reaction to the above...

When you have to ascribe "some bizarre reason" to other people's arguments, it's a good sign you aren't trying to understand. There's a difference between not agreeing and not getting it. Pretty much everyone on both sides of this discussion has done a pretty good job of explaining their...

So there have definitely been people asking for just a wizard reskin. No, I'm not digging through 23 pages to engage in a quote war over it. But setting that aside, I think you may be right about talking past each other. But that last paragraph is playing into that hard. Just to speak for...

I guess we can establish the First Maxim of the Forgotten Realms: The more a Realms Shaking Event shakes the Realms, the shakier the Realms become as a setting.

I did no such thing. My point is that your argument of "this other thing shows that it is possible" doesn't add anything to the discussion. It's obviously possible to design anything any way you want. It isn't an argument for why it should be designed that way. Other classes could have been...

LARP shows that it's entirely possible to represent magic and ranged weapons alike by throwing beanbags and shouting numbers at each other, but that doesn't mean that they are the preferable way to model a system of magic or ranged combat after. You could make a spell list for a monk class if...

Firefly was in the 90s. Mass Effect was in the 00s, Worm, which features "thinker headaches" began in 2010. Fringe aired between 2008 and 2013. There may be some that fell out of popular use, but many of them did not.

I agree with this to a point, but there are enough common tropes in psi-adjacent sci-fi that some commonality could be found to at least come up with some guidelines to keep in mind when creating a system meant to emulate them. It might be more productive for people in this thread to give an...

I rolled it once back in the 90s. Can't even remember the character's name. It was pretty early in experience with the hobby, and we were still pretty much exclusively doing sessions of mindless dungeon crawls that we made with graph paper. It was fun at the time, but none of the characters...

I feel the exact opposite on this. The reason separation is needed isn't because of possibility of confusion. My reasons are basically twofold: I don't feel that the mechanics that define the D&D wizard would do a sufficient job of capturing the feel of a science fiction user of psychic...

They aren't effectively synonyms within the context of comparing science fiction and fantasy. As for "what's next," how about this. Nothing you say about magic, psychic abilities, definitions of paranormal and how it compares to definitions of supernatural or anything else will change the...

Defining what words don't mean isn't exactly within the scope of a dictionary's purpose.

You didn't check very hard or are looking at an outdated physical copy. A quick Google search will remedy that for you. Not in other words at all. It's kind of a rectangle and square situation. You might be thinking of supernatural. Paranormal is broader than that. From the same...

College Ruled or narrower. Wide ruled paper doesn't give me enough lines to fit what I need without having to use multiple sheets of paper.

The definition of what is and isn't science in fiction is entirely defined within the fiction itself. Their plausibility outside of fiction is irrelevant. It's why science fiction that falls outside of the narrow category of "hard sci-fi" is still called science fiction and not fantasy. Magic...

I'm going to resist my "return to the old ways" stance I often take when it comes this kind of thing and instead, roll with the idea that D&D is just changing into something else. That WotC will continue to make changes going into 6E that take the game further and further from what they...

That's only true if your goal is a toolkit type of psionics like D&D wizards' "Everything I do is limited in scope, but I have enough of them to do everything." A bottomless bag of tricks. If you want your psionics to be more of the single discipline, expand scope over time variety, then spell...

So I've seen some people divide their opinion into two stances. Basically if no magic: reskin / if also magic: new. I think I kind of feel the opposite of that. If magic exists in the proposed sci-fi... setting? game? then psionics has to compete with that. If magic isn't a consideration...

And yet we've had threads on this very forum discussing how to expand martial capabilities with many suggestions that go beyond using the AC system. I'm not sure you should be so quick to make claims as to what "no one" wants.

Yeah, if there's one thing I would want to avoid in a psionics mechanic it's the existence of a generalist. A pyrokinetic is not a telekinetic is not a telepath is not a biokinetic, and so on.