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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 8094285" data-attributes="member: 6804070">I've always felt that psionics detracted from flavor and setting of Dark Sun.Perhaps this is because I played other settings with psionics that I never felt it was unique to DS. Perhaps because to me DS is about the destruction of magic, the abuse of great power that the world itself has almost been destroyed.Adding a friendly superpower that replaces arcane magic was simple, to me, a crutch to allow players to have wizards by a different name. To have the superpowers of magic without the drawbacks of magic that are so central to the setting.Psionics, to me, in Dark Sun was always a crutch to allow non-martial characters without the central costs or negative aspects of magic in the setting.i.e. In this setting magic has a cost, you can't play a wizard without accepting that cost. Except if you play a psionicist, then it's just like a wizard in any other setting but without the uniqueness that defines wizards in this setting.</blockquote>