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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terraproxy" data-source="post: 6962730" data-attributes="member: 6865057">first of all, thank you very much for your time!I really appreciate all of your suggestions, the thing is, I had no idea those exited in the first place, so a lot of your mechanical explanation flew  over my head... still, thank for your insight, it's never late to broaden horizons.I think you believe I want a sci fi setting. I really don't like that sci fi that much, but I start to like it a lot when it revolves about magitech. What I want is a perfect hybrid of sci and fantasy, and most of your suggestions appeared to relvove around hard sci fi. I actually choose fading suns because tv tropes promised that no matter how sci fi the setiing is, you can always flavour it as fantasy, if my memory serves me right, they said fading suns is as fantasy as you want to to be. Well ok, I want it 33% fantasy 33% sci fi and 33% a combination of both. (Elf techno-psi druids vs magi-cyber warlock orcs in spaceships fueled by elementals)for this reasoning alone I thought of D&D, to try to reach those percentages. I also choose D&D because I want to steampunkify the sci fi part, and since I heard that conversions between 3.5 and 2e are not super hard,I plan to steal a lot of stuff from eberron, not to mention I really want a horror atmosphere to all of this, so I will also steal from ravenloft a lot. I have heard that players options is indeed iffy, but again, tv tropes promised me that a careful use of them could put martials and spell casters in more equal ground, so I'm willing to risk it if only because I don't see any other alternative to blend flavourly and mechanically fading suns, D&D and new world of darkness.Finally, regarding psionics, I just planned to steal them both from eberron and dark sun and run them accordingly to vanilla 2e. The reasoning for the prestige classes was based on adapting the abilities of supernaturals as unlockable pcs kits customized with player options. Because I ultimately want to be  a steamtech_psi Magic girl elf warrior fueled with the arcane power of love against a magi_steamcyber werewolf dwarf Cleric fueled with the eldritch power of chaos, I don't think war hammer 40,000 would that useful.All of this is precisely why I just want to steal te 5e monsters as they are. The 2e monsters are very bland in comparation, and since my pcs will be super customized, I know they will tear them apart. The 5e monsters have a lot of statues and abilities, I thought they could be comparable to my high custom pcs, even if they end up not being that much of a challenge, I have several house rules planned to limit my pcs in power, such as permanent curse and corruption from magic abuse or crippling madness for cyber abuse. And if everything fails, I'll just buff the monsters to the max.in the end, balance is the least of my worries, I want a unbanlanced campaign against me, I don't even care for pc optimization. If the result of this is sub optimal pcs against powerful monsters , I'm all for it. I simply wish a decent mechanically runnable campaign, perfect balance be damned. So, in all honestly, if I do all of the above... what  are my chances for success? (If you say 40% or above I will make an important pc in your name!)</blockquote>

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