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So, how does one stop a psychic spell from being cast? A wizard can't cast spells if he's gagged or in handcuffs. More often, when he's in a silence spell or grappled. While not exceptionally common, it IS a check on casters who theoretically can't cast spells when captured or in certain...

Which I'm fine with. I don't mind the idea that a psion grappled or bound are distracted enough to not use most of their abilities. It also gives some indication the caster is casting enough to prep a counterspell or use mage slayer.

It's worth also pointing out that while psionic spells may have few or no components, they still create the effect as al normal. That does include needing to utter the command or say the suggestion, or that knock will still make a loud noise when used. The only exception is the invisible mage...

Jedi are frequently called "space wizards" so...

Here is a list of spells levels 0-3, excluding subclass spells. Light Mind Sliver Command Dissonant Whispers Feather Fall Blindness/Deafness Ego Whip Knock Suggestion Tasha's Mind Whip Intellect Fortress Telekinetic Crush Tongues That's a fair amount of spells that have no components when...

It's worth noting that psionic spells don't require Somatic components, it just doesn't remove them. So a spell like Command which only has Verbal components actually does have none when used as a psion. I should really go though the psion UA and see what spells they have actually have S or...

And it was still a stupid and arbitrary rule that no other class (well except Monk and assassin in a way) did. If there was no openings, you had to either fight or politic your way though the teen levels. It was utter bollocks. I guess they could fight a wraith or vampire and then lose their...

I think it's kinda funny that people get worked up about clerics, paladins and warlocks breaking their oaths. Where is the desire for druids to fight other druids to gain levels? For monks to remain poor and donate all but a fraction of their treasure to worthy causes? For rangers to be good...

That's 2e minus a dedicated class.

I think the problem (as you are painfully aware) is that D&D players no longer want the same things. I would have loved three different psionics methods to rank and vote over, but we were given the mystic and told to quibble over the details, which meant people nitpicked it to death. Some liked...

Both are very different than the base standard version. Dalamar and Drizzt are almost nothing alike in terms of species, save for being elves. Mystara is missing a lot of AD&Disms due to being the Basic world for so long. My point is that a generic "Drow Priestess of Lolth" statblock in the...

Right. Make house rules that allow you strip clerics of their class if they swear on Sunday. The core books don't need such things.

I liked baby purple dragon rider. A heckuva lot more than the banneret. And maybe if the Lore Police hadn't nuked the survey, we'd have gotten them instead of the wannabe warlord that barely holds it's own weight.

These are the same people who gave us Purple Dragon Knight... Though honestly, I kinda agree. WotC has been too deferential since 5e to a community who doesn't know what they want. I kinda think brute forcing "this is what psionics is in 5e" is as valid a tactic as a dozen surveys. It's not...

Ackahullay... Drow don't exist in Dragonlance, Dark Sun or Mystara. They are very different in Eberron. Orcs don't exist in Dragonlance, Dark Sun and until recently, Ravenloft. Duergar have no known existence on Mystara, Dark Sun, and I don't think Dragonlance. But the reason they were moved...

Exactly. No matter what psionics system WotC would give us, there would be enough people who says it's not "psionicky enough" for them. It doesn't match their favorite interpretation of psionics, or even it shouldn't be a thing at all. The spellcaster psion is the path of least resistance: the...

I appreciate the fact that Somatic components give at least one check on their use. You can't use them while restrained/grappled (except for those who have no S and thus no components) and the costly stuff does include some rather important stuff a caster needs. I look at it the same way the...

I think you are deeply underselling the divide in the community. Ask 20 D&D players what a druid is and you''ll get 24 answers, ranging from two separate classes (nature priest and shape shifter) to not a class at all (some variant of cleric/generic priest). People don't broadly agree on even...

How does a sorcerer lose his powers? A barbarian? A bard? A monk? You want to saddle classes with an off-switch to their power, saddle ALL of them with an off switch.

The only other exception is costly material components, which makes sense from a balance perspective.