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<blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7995047" data-attributes="member: 5142">I can't agree with this sentiment. Honestly, preserving and divine magic felt more like sidestepping the issue of the original setting than psionics. Psionics strikes me as the whole &quot;life adapts&quot; aspect to the weird and harsh environment of the setting. Psionics wasn't just something that people did in Dark Sun. It was something that nature did. There were plants and animals with psionic powers. In 20 years of gaming, I have never seen a gnome played. However, saying that this means that there should be no gnomes - while that would likely excite some people - would exclude tables where people did enjoy playing gnomes. The same is true, IMHO, regarding psionics. It's not necessarily about the tables where psionics weren't seen, but the ones where they enjoyed regular use. You will never get a reasonable conversation from a man who has already set their mind against being reasoned with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aldarc, post: 7995047, member: 5142"] I can't agree with this sentiment. Honestly, preserving and divine magic felt more like sidestepping the issue of the original setting than psionics. Psionics strikes me as the whole "life adapts" aspect to the weird and harsh environment of the setting. Psionics wasn't just something that people did in Dark Sun. It was something that nature did. There were plants and animals with psionic powers. In 20 years of gaming, I have never seen a gnome played. However, saying that this means that there should be no gnomes - while that would likely excite some people - would exclude tables where people did enjoy playing gnomes. The same is true, IMHO, regarding psionics. It's not necessarily about the tables where psionics weren't seen, but the ones where they enjoyed regular use. You will never get a reasonable conversation from a man who has already set their mind against being reasoned with. [/QUOTE]

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