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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8250943" data-attributes="member: 87792">With one exception I don't see that at all. And even that gives multiple options.This is the one exception. But it gives six suggestions:<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>1</td><td>You were exposed to the Far Realm's warping influence. You are convinced that a tentacle is now growing on you, but no one else can see it.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>A psychic wind from the Astral Plane carried psionic energy to you. When you use your powers, faint motes of light sparkle around you.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>You once suffered the dominating powers of an aboleth, leaving a psychic splinter in your mind.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>You were implanted with a mind flayer tadpole, but the ceremorphosis never completed. And now its psionic power is yours. When you use it, your flesh shines with a strange mucus.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>As a child, you had an imaginary friend that looked like a flumph or a strange platypus-like creature. One day, it gifted you with psionic powers, which have ended up being not so imaginary.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Your nightmares whisper the truth to you: your psionic powers are not your own. You draw them from your parasitic twin!</td></tr></table>That's quite a range of possibilities of which only one has to be possible.I don't know where you get the Primal Storm from? The fluff just says The Great Rain - it's a FR event, but plenty of places have had great storms. Or "A howling gale so powerful people still tell stories of it". How do sailors and port towns deal with once-a-generation storms? Badly.Are you telling the gods what they may or may not do? I suppose as DM you have that right - but this is one of the smallest manifestations of divine power around. Little more than making an "ordinary" cleric. If the gods are (a) real and (b) intervene at all then this does not remotely stretch my credulity. (It does on Athas, but that's a whole different story.)Point <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Which is part of why the dragon sorcerer was in the 4e PHB2 and the Draconic Bloodline in the 5e PHB.Edit: I think where our mutual incomprehension lies is that you want total understanding of the setting. To me a good setting can be outlined but is bigger than I as DM can understand. And the players are more than welcome to fill in the parts I've left blank.</blockquote>

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