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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xenoflare" data-source="post: 1378864" data-attributes="member: 12431">amen to that  Amen to that, Amrynn. i want to play my non-too-bright half-orc idiot savant-type egoist labourer who's survived horrible accidents that would mangle lesser mortals and can simulate the floor plans of a castle at a glance (biofeedback and hypercognition, respectively). i want to play my athlete who runs and runs and runs like hell, until one day his feet leave the ground and he learn to bend the rules of time and space (it's a bir animatrix-ish, but oh well). most of all, i wonder whether i can still play my monk/savant, who's out in the frontline because of his high con score... and creating ki blasts with his psychokinesis <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-P" title="Stick out tongue    :-P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":-P" />   i fear that in the bid to make psions "legit", flavour may be the victim here, and we will all enter a dreary, singular view of what psionics is. i never thought i'll be defending MAD... but oh hell, here i am haha!  this is perhaps going off-topic, but i like the crystal aspect too. i like the whole Eastern mysticism thing, i like the dorjes and Hindu/ Buddhist cosmology references, and i like the time/space manipulation. i like the pseudoscience, and the biological terms (synapses, psychofeedback, etc) - it may not be everybody's cup of tea, but the earlier ones worked for me.   every time there's a winner, there's also a loser, i guess... i just hope that in the urge to become legit, psionics won't lose its soul, its culture that it's built on already.yours sincerely,shao</blockquote>

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