cbwjm
Seb-wejem
Doesn't every setting?I think it's clear now that Dark Sun doesn't need psionics...
It needs gnome paladins!
D&D 5E Dark Sun doesn't actually need Psionics
Raduin711
Hero
My feeling is that if magic and psionics are interchangeable functionally or mechanically, it kind of ruins the dichotomy set up in the setting.
If psionics can do all the things magic can do, then why bother with magic? It would be irredeemably evil. We will have lost the veiled alliance as a sympathetic organization, and the struggle between preserving and the temptation of defiling is meritless.
You can say it's "reflavored" but it depends on what that means. If it means we replace all the magic words and wiggling fingers with pointing at our temples and looking very intensely at things and Magic Missile with Magic Missile [Psionic]... I do think Dark Sun has lost something in the process.
If psionics can do all the things magic can do, then why bother with magic? It would be irredeemably evil. We will have lost the veiled alliance as a sympathetic organization, and the struggle between preserving and the temptation of defiling is meritless.
You can say it's "reflavored" but it depends on what that means. If it means we replace all the magic words and wiggling fingers with pointing at our temples and looking very intensely at things and Magic Missile with Magic Missile [Psionic]... I do think Dark Sun has lost something in the process.
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