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Notoriously, they stay by the door of the dungeon and never disappear or get eaten, right alongside those horses PCs buy and forget once they enter the dungeon. (Seriously, you think it's hard for PCs to account for the gear they are carrying, it's impossible for them to remember the gear...

I worked very hard on saving the psionic soul from the UA since I didn't want aberrant sorcerer being the only caster-like psionic. It didn't work. Here's my takeaway from that experience: the sorcerer is a terrible psionic class. First, it's spell list is full of things it doesn't want and...

Oh, I agree 110%. I'm just pointing out OS players are very attached to the idea that a class should be good at exactly one thing and dog water in all others rather than a general competence with areas of specialization like modern gaming assumes.

A list that would be outdated the minute they make another supplement and everyone argues whether the new "radiant soul" sorcerer is psionic or defiling. WotC is big into future proofing and I think they want to try to avoid "how does X and Y supplements interact?" type issues.

Keep in mind Lanefan has zero issue with a character being or becoming useless randos with a crossbow. The notion is you go into a dungeon with six spells, 20 pieces of ammo, a dagger and a reinforced walking stick and Gods help you if you don't make it back out by the time you have used or...

I think one of the things that needs to be addressed when dealing with a psionic system that isn't apeing magic is how exactly do you counter it. Magic has very few hard counters as it stands: you can't cast spells with verbal components if unable to speak, somatic if unable to move your hand(s)...

I mean, you can use that argument to justify race/class restrictions, level limits and female strength restrictions being retained. At a certain point, you ask the question why even bother revising the game and just publish 1e into perpetuity.

Broadly speaking, part of D&D's problem is that there are so many different types of magic that it becomes hard to make meaningful differences. Part of the problem is that D&D tries too hard to codify magic but then doesn't follow through on it. We use tags like arcane, divine, primal or...

That's basically all psionics ever was. From 3.5 onwards, they were pretty much just mages with a different tracking mechanic and unique (well mostly unique) list of powers. 4e used a slight variant on ADEU (no E, but PP that augment A) and Pathfinder has ignored psionics in favor of occult...

How many of those "neat experimental" phases bore fruit? It's not like incarnum survived the single book devoted to it. For every warlock in Complete Arcane, there is a whole Tome of Magic rotting under the sand. Elements of Tome of Battle became 4e, but crashed back into the maneuver system of...

Yes, that's why there are perception checks, hidden door rolls and find traps. It's also why passive perception is a rule. The issue is that the DM would argue that since the player didn't specify he "looked up" he can't make the prescription check to see the ooze.

Counterpoint: was the person cautiously exploring the hotel wary of ambushes, traps, or hazards all while keeping an eye for treasure or hidden things? Probably not. Hence reasonable precautions. A reasonable person would be scanning the zone for anything from loose bricks to cobwebs to bats or...

My friend just got done playing a Mercer Bloodhunter in my Ravenloft game. Got him to 14th level. And I must say that while I didn't find the class exceptionally broken, the sheer number of mechanics and interactions that went on in it was enough for him to say he'd rather not play that class...

The thing is that almost any adventurer over a 6 Intelligence would look around when entering a room. Look up and notice giant blob of snot on the ceiling. At the very least, you'd notice something in you peripheral vision. Now if it's hidden or disguised, all bets are off. This is about failing...

We used to joke about "Death by Gotcha", a method of DMing where things that would be painfully obvious to a real person but not to a player sitting at a table. The classic example is the green slime dropped on a PCs head because they failed to announce they were looking up at the ceiling. But...

They NEED a psion class if they are doing Dark Sun because any attempt to just use subclasses to do psionics will but heads right into arcane defiling rules or no deity/divine magic rules. You can't assume people will know or like that the draconic sorcerer is forced to defile but the aberrant...

You know that's what they said about ADEU design pre Essentials? There is nothing new under the Sun.

Ego whip needs better balancing. But everything is going to pale to Silver Barbs.

Highly disagree. Neither the 3e or 4e warlock used pact spells. 4e in particular used the same ADEU as every other class and was just fine.