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<blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2429239" data-attributes="member: 18832"><p>Most of these "admissions" tend to be of the form "I can think of a few cool ways that you could have a psionic warforged", rather than "Sure, there are buttloads of them out there."</p><p></p><p>Psionics is rare in Eberron - restricted to an insular minority race, their secretive and conspiratorial persecutors, those touched by the Realm of Madness or corrupted by the taint of the Dragon Below, and freak individual occurrences caused by events like the Mourning (and possibly including the effects of <em>eldritch machines</em>).</p><p></p><p>The real reason there aren't psiwrights and psi-powered technology all over Khorvaire is that Wizards didn't want to push psionics on DMs and players who don't care for it. The <strong>in-setting</strong> "logical reason" is that psionics is a rare force, 99% controlled by individuals who don't have the mindset or the motivation to commodify it the way that magic has been commodified.</p><p></p><p>Everything Keith Baker says about ways non-kalashtar non-Inspired non-Dragon Below cultist non-Xoriat-connected people can be psions is meant to account for the kind of freak occurrences that make for heroes. His explicit paradigm is "The PCs are <strong>special</strong>" - he doesn't think NPCs gain XP or action points or levels the same way as PCs do, for instance, and while he offers explanations for how you could have a warforged psion and the like it's meant as a way of legitimating PC concepts, <strong>not</strong> as an indication that <em>n</em>% of the warforged population are psions!</p><p></p><p>(Admittedly, <em>Races of Eberron</em> messes with this paradigm a little by offering racial substitution levels in psionic classes for non-kalashtar, but that is I think excusable given that it's a core D&D product with roots in Eberron rather than an Eberron product <em>per se</em> - and, frankly, the changeling egoist makes a lot of sense to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mhacdebhandia, post: 2429239, member: 18832"] Most of these "admissions" tend to be of the form "I can think of a few cool ways that you could have a psionic warforged", rather than "Sure, there are buttloads of them out there." Psionics is rare in Eberron - restricted to an insular minority race, their secretive and conspiratorial persecutors, those touched by the Realm of Madness or corrupted by the taint of the Dragon Below, and freak individual occurrences caused by events like the Mourning (and possibly including the effects of [i]eldritch machines[/i]). The real reason there aren't psiwrights and psi-powered technology all over Khorvaire is that Wizards didn't want to push psionics on DMs and players who don't care for it. The [b]in-setting[/b] "logical reason" is that psionics is a rare force, 99% controlled by individuals who don't have the mindset or the motivation to commodify it the way that magic has been commodified. Everything Keith Baker says about ways non-kalashtar non-Inspired non-Dragon Below cultist non-Xoriat-connected people can be psions is meant to account for the kind of freak occurrences that make for heroes. His explicit paradigm is "The PCs are [b]special[/b]" - he doesn't think NPCs gain XP or action points or levels the same way as PCs do, for instance, and while he offers explanations for how you could have a warforged psion and the like it's meant as a way of legitimating PC concepts, [b]not[/b] as an indication that [i]n[/i]% of the warforged population are psions! (Admittedly, [i]Races of Eberron[/i] messes with this paradigm a little by offering racial substitution levels in psionic classes for non-kalashtar, but that is I think excusable given that it's a core D&D product with roots in Eberron rather than an Eberron product [i]per se[/i] - and, frankly, the changeling egoist makes a lot of sense to me. :)) [/QUOTE]
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