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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erdric Dragin" data-source="post: 8118238" data-attributes="member: 6785197">This is what I tend to argue what is a big flaw to 5e in comparison to others. The lack of game diversity. I understand "power creep" and "bloat" and all those other fear-inducing game terms that DMs unnecessarily panic over.To me, however, that ultimately really mean "I'm the DM yet can't control what enters my games" on one side; and on the company side means "It's niche and we just want to only produce adventures and sprinkle a dose of new stuff to the core game material over and over again"Except the analogy to that is like eating potatoes every single day, except they just cook it differently now and then..." Problem is, it's still potatoes and eating the same thing everyday well...tends to suck and lose flavor over time and very quickly.Introducing a new class system of play would be nice and generate a bigger interest and yield to the customer base for several reasons. Yeah, they did release the Artificer not too long ago, but it didn't need its own system of play. Everything about it is just class features while using the spell slot system.They could be scared it's not received very well, but wasn't that the point of Unearthed Arcana? To playtest a Psionic system that's both unique and fun without too much complexity, to bring to people's D&D games? It just seems to me after the last playtest with Mystic, they just gave up. Have they considered anyone's suggestions on how to tinker with the system to make it playable and acceptable, or did they only listen to the naysayers? Paizo doesn't ever have issues with it for PathfinderClearly I'm a massive Psionics fan, so for people like myself, it's tragic what we're missing out on.Were this any other edition prior to 4th, D&D would be more of a "all you can eat banquet and you pick and choose your dish" as opposed to "Here's mashed potatoes...here's potato skins...here's baked potato....". Even 3rd edition had The Mind's Eye and Complete Psionics to enhance the system now and then and that was highly appreciated.</blockquote>

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