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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 3026282" data-attributes="member: 1106">I've already mentioned them.&nbsp; They're supposed to be alien, cthulhuesque creatures, and have &quot;psionic blasting&quot; as part of their flavour.&nbsp; For critters like this, and other &quot;aliens&quot; like githyanki or kaorti, psionics fit because psionics, too, are alien and weird in the implied setting, and enhance the Twilight Zone feel that these creatures are supposed to have.Too much pepper spoils the meal, though...it's all about scope IMO.I don't share the &quot;cthulhu fetish&quot; that you get a lot on enworld, and don't think that all that is Lovecraft is worth the time of day.&nbsp; On the other hand, I like mind flayers, and think they fit D&amp;D more than a Carrie-like PC does, because D&amp;D doesn't need Carrie when it already has Merlin, Gandalf etc.&nbsp; She's redundant, and needs to go back to a contemporary setting where the flavour of her powers are needed to &quot;make sense&quot; in that environment.&nbsp; D&amp;D aliens like the illithids and githyanki fit quite firmly into the D&amp;D cosmos, on the other hand.&nbsp; In a D&amp;D world, a teenage girl setting off fires isn't particularly weird when sorcerors and wizards exist, so she isn't interesting anymore, and the justification for her powers is redundant and unnecessarily sci-fi in allusion when magic is around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 3026282, member: 1106"] I've already mentioned them. They're supposed to be alien, cthulhuesque creatures, and have "psionic blasting" as part of their flavour. For critters like this, and other "aliens" like githyanki or kaorti, psionics fit because psionics, too, are alien and weird in the implied setting, and enhance the Twilight Zone feel that these creatures are supposed to have. Too much pepper spoils the meal, though...it's all about scope IMO. I don't share the "cthulhu fetish" that you get a lot on enworld, and don't think that all that is Lovecraft is worth the time of day. On the other hand, I like mind flayers, and think they fit D&D more than a Carrie-like PC does, because D&D doesn't need Carrie when it already has Merlin, Gandalf etc. She's redundant, and needs to go back to a contemporary setting where the flavour of her powers are needed to "make sense" in that environment. D&D aliens like the illithids and githyanki fit quite firmly into the D&D cosmos, on the other hand. In a D&D world, a teenage girl setting off fires isn't particularly weird when sorcerors and wizards exist, so she isn't interesting anymore, and the justification for her powers is redundant and unnecessarily sci-fi in allusion when magic is around. [/QUOTE]

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