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Session 5 Only three other players were here this time: Gwapo, the bard, and the wizard. That said, a lot happened. Part 1: In Which Discoveries Open New Doors We looted the bodies of the monks and looked around the room. Ahead of us was a pair of windows through which we could make out a pair...

Hmm... but does physics allow the dimension door itself to have velocity? That is to say, if the spell teleports the user by creating a temporary wormhole or other space-bending portal around them, wouldn't the portal, as a product of the user, be brought into existence moving with the user? In...

Of course, if you try not to think of a pink rhinoceros...

Does that end up being a problem, for those who've used those spells? I've always wondered.

Wyrmclaw. Sear. Axe of Platinium Flame ('cause Bahamut's the Platinium Dragon and all)

Updated the New Items section. Alchemist's Fire, Frost, and Spark now deal half-damage on a miss, like many first-level spells. When you pay 50 gp for a single-use weapon, it should at least do something if you mess up or you've just wasted a huge amount of money. Also added more detailed...

I wish that thing about blindsight had been mentioned in the books.

Yeah, I went to a bookstore yesterday to play D&D, brought this up there, and everyone I talked to was just "Oh, that. Yeah, I thought it sounded pretty cool." We're going to have someone playtest the class next week. I notice nobody's actually talked about their play experiences with the mystic...

The name is most interesting? In the next update, mystic is spelled "mystyk." Two factions spring up, arguing over the pair of letters:

Wow, this has been going on for months. Have you guys definitively determined whether or not they suck yet?

"Psion" always sounded weird to me. Were they just trying to give it a name that wasn't as mundane as "psychic"? Mystic seems to work for me. Mysticism invokes feelings of perfecting mind and body, uncovering mystery, transcendence, meditation, and becoming awakened. That seems to fit psionics...

Has anyone tried out the Mystic yet? I wanna know what it's like!

Not PCs, but the huge variety of interesting characters in the printout miniatures from the Order of the Stick kickstarter has inspired me to create NPCs. Like, there's this one goblin miniature where the goblin is wearing a mask with goggles and holding a bomb, called "Bat-Bomber." And next to...

I must say, of all the versions of D&D I've played (3.5, 4, 5) this new edition has given me more fun than anything else in recent memory. And as an aspiring game designer, I really like how easy it is to homebrew stuff.

It is pretty cool. Will definitely make mystery campaigns more challenging to write, though...

Yeah, are there any other detailed origin stories for psionics besides the Far Realm thing? All the other origins I've seen before now just say it's power from the mind, without going into much detail about how you get that power. I think the article probably should've lead with the general...

Oh, but that's not a discipline. It's just a regular class feature. It doesn't need concentration.

That would definitely be a better way to word it, and I hope they change it to something more neutral-sounding in the final version. But even as it's worded now, it's not really that hard to use the given lore in a Far Realm-less setting. You just ignore everything in the first paragraph of...

I keep hearing this claim, but as far as I can tell it doesn't require Far Realms flavor. The Great Old One pact requires more Far Realm than this does. All the PDF did was mention the Far Realm as one way people get psionics. Then it listed some other ways it happens, like the gods abandoning...

Is it really all that enforced, though? Influence of the Far Realm is certainly one suggested narrative, but it also talks about discovering psionics through secret lore, by pure accident, and how Dark Sun does it. Is there another interpretation that you think should have also been included?