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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dinkeldog" data-source="post: 4030791" data-attributes="member: 195">Now, you see, this counts as a "threadcrap" and it's pretty much guaranteed to make people cranky.  While at least minimal effort (mostly through omission) has been made to "stay civil", there's no adding to the thread.  Further, there's a stated purpose to this thread--can 4E handle the OP's game world.  If you really have nothing to add, then please sit this one out and watch from the sidelines.  Others were able to make statements and then come back with an "Only you can decide..." type statement.  That makes people much less cranky.I would say that the first thing you might look at is that psionics are almost guaranteed to come out, but probably not for the first year--that might mean that you delay a full port of your gameworld or come up with some method of looking at what was done with magic and divine power sources and coming up with a psionics system that operates similarly (clearly with different results than the two, but something similar for the per encounter/per day type thing handled).I'm going through the same thing with my gameworld, but as it stayed much closer to core (fewer power sources, although I do use psionics), I'm feeling less nervousness about a port.  The loss of the chaos vs. evil axis that we seem to be getting might have an impact, but can also be added back in.Gnomes will be in the MM, and likely see a full writeup in a future PH.  My gameworld deals heavily with gnomes as an integral part, so they need some effort on my part--as does at least one other really core non-human race and my human regional variants.  I'm looking forward to seeing how these things can be handled.  In a lot of ways, this is the worldbuilding that I enjoy doing most--non-standard races, classes, and religions.  If you have the same mindset, then you'll probably find a port to be a way to rethink what you like about your setting and what really doesn't work.</blockquote>

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