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Most started with 5e. Some refuse to learn about new content. And those people don't buy books. And thus WotC doesn't care what they think because they won't buy anything WotC puts out. And that some is smaller than "Most" or "All". The Pre3e fans mostly ditched 3e. And 4e. And 5e. And their...

You responded to "There's no guarantee that the specific playerbase of this game, who have taken to it in the very narrow manner it has been presented" with "Post apocalyptic movies and shows have been hits!" As if that means a single thing relative to the point that I made. You know what else...

I'd rather have a Psion than not have a Psion in 5e D&D. However I'll use the survey to voice my preference for different mechanics while still judging the class's mechanics on the design goals. My opinion, like many, will be ignored and I'm okay with that.

Some. Some being a small portion. Not most. Not all. And those people aren't buying new books, so their opinion and reasoning doesn't really "Show Up" to WotC. Nothing WotC makes, whether powers or spells, will appeal to them and cause them to purchase a new book. So... Why care what they...

Then, yeah. I disagree that it would be too complex for people to learn or cause significant pause for people looking at the 35-40 new powers. Or cause the playerbase to undergo a great flinging up of their hands "I don't want to learn all this!" when there's 300+ spells in the PHB and another...

Whenever we have any kind of discourse, Max, I lay out a series of points generally based on history, facts, and at least a rough approximation of the understanding that humans don't always see eye to eye on things and may in fact argue various issues contentiously. Then you nay say it. Take...

It does. 1) The powers are strictly not as strong as spells. Baseline, they're about as powerful as cantrips, though they scale in a different way. Even with augments they deal less damage than a spell with an equal investiture of psi dice to spell levels. 2) Limited selection paths. To learn...

You can't see internal arguments about the design goals Dark Sun would require not aligning with the overall design goals of D&D24 causing problems? You can't see the underlying socio-political commentary of the setting resulting in some hesitancy toward publication? You can't see a lack of...

I think we're talking across each other, here. This is what I'm referring to: One power. Six different effect options. 1) Deal Psychic Damage 2) Telepathic Communication 3) Read Surface Thoughts 4) Put someone to Sleep by psychic attack 5) Steal Memory 6) Drive someone Batty with psychic...

So 36 total effects... And how much would each effect contain? Maybe 5-6 variations of function? Let's be generous and call it 6. That'd be about 216 individual variations on either 36 or 9 themes, however you specifically want to play it. That's a LOT. There's 326 spells in the PHB each...

"Nuh huh." 'Kay.

The thread isn't "What will WotC do with Psionics" which you've outlined. The thread is "What do you want?" So I responded with what I wanted. If I can do it, by myself, in a way that is engaging and interesting enough to be the new favorite class of dozens of people when only a couple...

Mechanical identity separation from spellcasting. Narrow selection of thematic powers that possess great individual flexibility. A method of utilizing that flexibility to improve aspects of the powers to make them more useful in the current situation. The ability to always tap into the basic...

In short: Marketability and ease of Design. In Long: 1) Climate Change is a charged political issue rather than something even children understand is a continuous problem. 2) The aggregation of global power into the hands of a few magocratic elite who lie and manipulate the populace to try...

"Slavery is bad. And should be opposed at all times" really shouldn't be a strong stance to take, either. But slavery isn't the issue, in the end. They -claim- it is... but then they have you oppose slavery in all the other worlds. Well. Not really. Slavery is just a thing that happens in those...

They've definitely been good about it for a long while, now. We'll see how long it holds. Target was also really good about inclusivity. So was Meta, Google, IBM, Disney, dozens more. We'll see how long Hasbro holds and whether it's a moral stance they believe in or just something they say to...

Dark Sun requires a strong moral stand against the mundane evils in the world just as much as the mystical. And Hasbro, being a publicly traded corporation, cannot take a strong moral stance on literally anything. They should sell the license to a 3rd party publisher to do it justice and give...

Blackguard is what I went for, but for clarity's sake: Knave, Varlet, and Blackguard have largely the same definition in American English: "Insult Yelled by Pirates and Knights" "Avast, Varlet!" "Halt, Knave!" "You filthy Blackguard!" None of it has any kind of specific cultural weight for a...

I'll treat it like any other WotC class: I'll respond to the entire survey process based on balance metrics and discussion points they bring up. I'm not going to review bomb it and pretend it's mechanically the worst thing in the world or anything. And yeah. I'll tell them I much prefer the...