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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 7966985" data-attributes="member: 926">Ha Ha, but I happen to think the idea of spacemagic is pretty rad.The last campaign I ran ended with the party stranded on their planet's Moon in a ring of monoliths after a teleportation mishap, surrounded by raygun armed Flumphs, with an advancing army of Mi-Go bearing down on them... all in the shadow of the gigantic chained corpse of a Great Old One.  And my players absolutely loved it. Unfortunately scheduling problems ended up making that the last game session.I don't straightjacket my ideas of Fantasy to one tiny subset of approved authors or mythologies.  I like to throw everything in the kettle, just like the old Weird Fiction pulp authors who originally inspired D&D.  Ever actually read anything from Appendix N?  That $#!! gets crazy.  That's why we have  stuff like mecha (Mighty Servant of Leuk-O, Apparatus of Kwalish) and the whole of Barrier Peaks in D&D.  I love the idea of wizards with rayguns fighting demons in outer space.  That is the original spirit of D&D.  The artificial division between Fantasy and Science-Fiction didn't emerge until decades after the classic pulp authors were writing their best stuff.  Hell, blending Sci-F, Horror, and Fantasy is what Lovecraft (at least modern ideas of Lovecraft) is all about, and Lovecraft defines my favored flavor of Fantasy. You can't have Cthulhu without also getting Cats from Saturn and the Dreamlands.And anyway, D&D psionics was inspired by Dr. Strange's non-spellcasting abilities like astral projection and telepathy, which were a separate subset of disciplines from his magical abilities.</blockquote>

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