And yet, I still don't have psionics.Do we need it. No. Do players want it yes. Which means it's not going away. In this day and age of instant gratification telling people they can't have a feature is bad for sales.
or lightsabers. Psionics is typically relegated to scifi games. There seems to be something similar to an uncanny valley effect in fantasy games when you start adding things similar to scifi. Most people just don't like it.And yet, I still don't have psionics.
One day, I will complete my time machine so I can go back and wreck the nerd who decided to segregate the various genres of speculative fiction.or lightsabers. Psionics is typically relegated to scifi games. There seems to be something similar to an uncanny valley effect in fantasy games when you start adding things similar to scifi. Most people just don't like it.
I do think there's a sensible mechanical genre divide between sci-fi/fantasy, but it's distinctly in tension with the aesthetic one. Sci-fi assumes projection from modern technology to reasonably assumed future technology, and fantasy posits specific exceptions to known reality and projects from there.or lightsabers. Psionics is typically relegated to scifi games. There seems to be something similar to an uncanny valley effect in fantasy games when you start adding things similar to scifi. Most people just don't like it.