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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6664105" data-attributes="member: 996">Some Bruce Cordell adventure. Edit: Gates of Firestorm Pass&nbsp;You said you couldn't care less, except you did care enough to fire some miss-directed edition-war shots at it.&nbsp;Since Lovecraft has always been an influence on the D&amp;D mythos, your objection to something Lovecraftian 'clashing' with that mythos remains nonsense, no matter how many time you choose to repeat it.&nbsp; Sorry if you don't care for Lovecraft in your D&amp;D, but it's always been there.&nbsp; If it helps, I can empathize:&nbsp; I've never much cared for having science-fiction tropes in D&amp;D, but they've always been there, too....All that said, locking in any explanation for psionics (and locking in whether it's 'magic' or not - even though 'not magic' can be mechanically problematic, and changing the name to 'Mystic' is at odds with making it 'not magic,' as well) are bad ideas.&nbsp; Give us side-bars with several options for what it is and how it arises, including just leaving it 'mysterious &amp; unexplained.'&nbsp; Everyone can pick what they like or exclude what they don't.&nbsp; Even just presenting the fluff with qualifiers (&quot;...some sages say.... psioins, themselves argue... blah...blah....blah&quot;).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6664105, member: 996"] Some Bruce Cordell adventure. [i]Edit: Gates of Firestorm Pass[/i] You said you couldn't care less, except you did care enough to fire some miss-directed edition-war shots at it. Since Lovecraft has always been an influence on the D&D mythos, your objection to something Lovecraftian 'clashing' with that mythos remains nonsense, no matter how many time you choose to repeat it. Sorry if you don't care for Lovecraft in your D&D, but it's always been there. If it helps, I can empathize: I've never much cared for having science-fiction tropes in D&D, but they've always been there, too. ... All that said, locking in any explanation for psionics (and locking in whether it's 'magic' or not - even though 'not magic' can be mechanically problematic, and changing the name to 'Mystic' is at odds with making it 'not magic,' as well) are bad ideas. Give us side-bars with several options for what it is and how it arises, including just leaving it 'mysterious & unexplained.' Everyone can pick what they like or exclude what they don't. Even just presenting the fluff with qualifiers ("...some sages say.... psioins, themselves argue... blah...blah....blah"). [/QUOTE]

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