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This could be a series of progressively more powerful but more expensive spells. The components could also require increasingly evil deeds to obtain, tempting a hero into corruption.

I made a warlock invocation for 3.5 that stole someone else's youth. You targeted someone younger than you, the two of you switched ages. Target someone your own age or older had no effect. It did however have a side-effect, because the victim whose youth you took tended to become evil and want...

How has this post aged? One of the problems with magic in games is that it is mostly about combat and not what people in folklore and fiction would actually use magic to accomplish. We have five editions and Pathfinder, what is the state of longevity magic now in 2020?

So, can we have a solid list of "kits" that really need to be redefined as classes? Or is it just to fuzzy to draw a line?

But how do we quantify something like hygiene in game terms?

How many of these are actually effective? How many are redundant? How much actual training time would you need to be effective with each of them? It looks like Bruce Wayne would have to spend 30 years training in martial arts to become proficient in all of these...

Comic book writers who do not necessarily know very much about martial arts have repeatedly said Batman just knows all the martial arts. Since more are created regularly, and there are many stylistic variations of most arts, this seems ludicrous. Trying to be as realistic as possible, if you...

Very interesting, especially the madness option...

There is a TON of material in older editions. Just dig out your older books and Dragon Magazines and update stuff.

The Sha'ir does not steal spells, he receives them from his gen's planar connections. Jackals steal spells.

Well, take the Rogue as a base, add more combat ability, and emphasize stealth and mobility over social skills. Less picking pockets, more parkour and climbing...

Based on a lot of myths and legends and horror stories, I like to picture succubi just being like a drug, they addict you to their sex, so you forego rest, food, water, until you die from exhaustion. Think about the experiments where lab mice were able to push a button that stimulated the...

Magic powers that affect or detect psionics simply need to be researched for that specific end. A wizard who knows what psionics is and that it must be countered will develop spells like Detect Psionics, Protection from Psionics, et cetera. Likewise, a Psionicist worth his crystals will develop...

Most magic is still spell-based. Psionics in 2E was not. Powers were more like skills and feats.

Ick! No.

Sure, and part of it is just to do something different from magic. You want a change of pace and want to do things a different way.

Casual players need not be a psionicist. Also, it depends on the setting. If you are playing in Dark Sun, psionics is everywhere, almost every character at least has a wild talent. In other settings, psionics is rare, I can see a gamer group just deciding to pass on it.

Yes. Psionic combat in 2E, especially in the Dark Sun setting with TW&TW, was like an exciting tactical game within a game. The powers had an air of mysticism combined with a sci-fi flare. The wide difference between psionics and magic made them more mysterious and exotic, and made psionic...

I like it. I just picture a wizard ruining his health for a while by using his own life-force to heal people. Your mileage may vary at higher levels if the caster heals people several times a day. Remember, being reduced to 0 Constitution is fatal.

I have yet to see a psionics system for any edition of D&D that I like better than the ones in 2E. I don't like psionic spells, I don't think psionics should be magic. So how much of the system in the Psionics Handbook and The Will & The Way can be translated into 5E? I want to see tangents...