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A Fighter, a Rogue, a Monk, and a Barbarian are all Martial characters. They move and they hit things. That's their baseline mechanic. But HOW they move and hit things tells a story that gets you invested into a specific character fantasy. Rogues do a lot more moving and ranged attacking...

Also the misogyny of Chameleon. A woman who is dumb and beautiful, plain and moderately intelligent, or ugly and brilliant, based on a monthly cycle. And how Bink would get her pregnant while she was beautiful and then have to suffer the rest of the time when she was pissed at him for tricking...

D&D has a lot of thieves guilds. But I'm talking about the Russian Mob complete with the slav squat and track suits. I'm talking Dominic Toretto pealing squealing donuts in Silverymoon. This Strawman was meant to be a COMPLETE one. Not a question of allegorical connection or general gesture...

Your point is that it's not a shot in the dark because some nebulous group of people which may or may not include this fanbase likes Post Apocalyptic TV and Moves. Which is just as valid an argument for instead making OneD&D Modern... Which is really unlikely to happen. Possibly less unlikely...

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...