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I'm pretty sure they all think that. A reality where magic works according to the whims of mages is far too dangerous for mortals, and solidifying the laws of reality means mortals can exploit them to build mundane technology that helps them.

Yes. There's been a lot of giant skellingtons going around: Sutekh, Bone Beasts, Omega. There's another interesting tidbit that I thought of, if they're going to shake things up with Doctor Who. Back when Chibnall quit, JMS mentioned he had inquired with the BBC about doing Doctor Who...

Sure. My point is more that since there are no real psychic powers, anymore than there are real wizards or miracleworkers, there's no firm ground to stand on to say what psionics are. It all depends on which fiction you'd like them to be. My idea is very much colored by the 2e Complete Psionics...

Ship combat is often one of the big problems with sci-fi games. 1e Star Wars D6 is probably the only one that's done it fairly well, and they did that by focusing on fighter/light transport scale, and by centering things on one-on-one or one-on-many fights, not many-on-many. Though the Clashes...

IRL, "psychic power" is a veneer of pseudoscience over magic woo. But in fiction, there's definitely a difference – particularly from the scholarly type of magic D&D wizards do. And as with most fictional things, the edges of the concept are kind of nebulous. It is clear that at the center of...

I agree with the consensus that "arrived at" (or sometimes on or in) is correct, and not "arrived to". I would expect that "arrived to" is the result of a non-native speaker whose native language does use the equivalent of "arrived to" – Swedish, for example, would use "anlände till" which...

You probably don't. Arkham Horror and (I guess) Candela Obscura are for people who like the Cthulhu Mythos concepts, but not the Call of Cthulhu system.

She can burn things with "cosmic fire", but for the most part the Phoenix's fiery aura is cosmetic. For example, I'm pretty sure we've seen the Phoenix aura reach out and "grasp" someone in its fiery talons, but they didn't get burned by it – the grasp was primarily telekinetic in nature. But I...

That was only 3.0. In the XPH, they rightly changed it so you had all psions using Int, and then Wilders Cha and Psychic Warriors Wis. I think they had some idea with 3.0 that you'd get fightery egoists (psychometabolism) because they were Strength-based, but with BAB +1/2 levels, no armor...

I was actually not particularly fond of the para-elemental clerics as introduced in Earth Air Fire and Water. There was a lot of cool stuff in it, like the minor granted powers and some new cool spells, but I didn't particularly care for that aspect. One of the things I liked about OG Dark Sun...

All you really need to know is in the musical anyway.

Problem is that there's too much juice in the base fighter class to make room for a proper warlord as a fighter subclass. The Battlemaster is probably already pushing that envelope as far as it can go. To make a better warlord, it needs to be a worse fighter. I think this was a solution to an...

I think I saw one of the Paizo devs say something to the effect of "With PF1 we made the mistake of releasing a Mythic-based AP (Wrath of the Righteous) nearly concurrently with the actual rules, before we had a good grasp on how those rules interacted with other stuff. This didn't work out so...

5.5e has all subclasses start at level 3, though some classes have other subclass-like choices at earlier levels (e.g. clerics get to choose between Protector (heavy armor and martial weapons) and Thaumaturge (extra cantrip and add Wis to Arcana and Religion checks) at level 1).

I'd actually prefer it if there is no Shaper. The 3e Metacreativity discipline always felt a bit shoehorned in. In 3.0, each discipline had its own casting (sorry, manifesting) stat: Strength for psychometabolism, Dexterity for psychoportation, Constitution for metacreativity, Intelligence for...

They were definitely aware of that. In the accompanying video, they mention that the teleport can be devastating in the right tactical environment. They don't mention bars, but they do mention pits and cliffs.

Dark Sun's original half-giants were nothing like goliaths. OG Dark Sun half-giants were like 10-11 feet tall IIRC – solidly Large rather than Medium. They also didn't have inherent psionics any more than other Dark Sun characters did (that is, all PCs got at least Wild Talents, but that was a...

I vote for "psice".