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If Psion is fixed and official does it belong into FR as basic and RAW?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 7892847" data-attributes="member: 27957"><p>I draw a distinction between "Exists as a player option" and "Exists as a common and well known part of the setting that helps shape events and NPC attitudes".</p><p></p><p>This distinctions exists because I consider PCs to be inherently exceptional. They're rare talents, people marked by destiny, characters with backstories full of unusual events. If they want to be one of the last survivors of a hidden race, the few practitioners of an obscure discipline, or the few holders of a unique power then that's just fine. They don't have to be some random farmboy who picked up a shovel and brained the orc that was trying to eat their cow. Not unless they want to be, because in its own way that's a special heroic backstory all its own.</p><p></p><p>The other side of this coin, though, is that the setting doesn't have to be rewritten around these rare and exceptional PCs. One tortle PC doesn't mean that there's now a tortle empire and tortle ships can be found in every port. One psion PC doesn't mean psionics is now a recognized profession with their own guild helping train the psionic inquisitors that kingdoms use to ferret out dissent among their own people. It's okay to leave these things as rare and exceptional. And if a DM wants to veto a particular thing as being a little too exceptional to fit their campaign's theme, well, that's their right as DM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 7892847, member: 27957"] I draw a distinction between "Exists as a player option" and "Exists as a common and well known part of the setting that helps shape events and NPC attitudes". This distinctions exists because I consider PCs to be inherently exceptional. They're rare talents, people marked by destiny, characters with backstories full of unusual events. If they want to be one of the last survivors of a hidden race, the few practitioners of an obscure discipline, or the few holders of a unique power then that's just fine. They don't have to be some random farmboy who picked up a shovel and brained the orc that was trying to eat their cow. Not unless they want to be, because in its own way that's a special heroic backstory all its own. The other side of this coin, though, is that the setting doesn't have to be rewritten around these rare and exceptional PCs. One tortle PC doesn't mean that there's now a tortle empire and tortle ships can be found in every port. One psion PC doesn't mean psionics is now a recognized profession with their own guild helping train the psionic inquisitors that kingdoms use to ferret out dissent among their own people. It's okay to leave these things as rare and exceptional. And if a DM wants to veto a particular thing as being a little too exceptional to fit their campaign's theme, well, that's their right as DM. [/QUOTE]
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