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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7149288" data-attributes="member: 996">There's a lot of Lovecraft influence in D&D.  Wingless-Star-Spawn-of-C'thulhu 'Mind Flayers' are just the most obvious. They're also among the most notorious users of psionics.  And they're aberrations.  Do you cut all aberrations from the game, or just change the type to something less annoying?The Far Realm is just a plane no one can really go to, cutting it couldn't be easier. Meh.  Inventing something, even something as HPL-derivative as the Far Realm, may or may not be that easy for everyone, and, fluff can be a source of inspiration, even if you do end up changing it.  So just not having it isn't a wonderful idea, especially when it comes to a game like 5e strongly tied to a setting (or settings... hmm... maybe I shouldn't have brought it up).  Settling on just one fluff explanation just leads to exactly this kind of argument, where those who like it insist 'just don't use it' and those who don't insist 'just add it yourself.'  Divisive and counter-productive.What is easier is to just select from among several flavor options.  The Far Realm connection to psionics should be presented, as an in-setting hypothesis or a DM option, one of at least a few.  Similarly, the Weave should be presented as one way of explaining arcane magic, that's nominally official in FR, at the most, but not the only one. That's just taking the philosophy of DM Empowerment and optional rules that's already prevalent in 5e to the realm of fluff, where it works even better and with fewer downsides.</blockquote>

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