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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6669970" data-attributes="member: 57383">Personally, I have no objection to the Far Realms becoming part of the core D&amp;D setting, but I really dislike the idea of Psionics being from the Far Realms or a response to the Far Realms' intrusion.If it was up to me, I'd do something like this:Psionics is the power of thought manifesting into reality. It is literally mind over matter. In the most potent cases, mind becomes matter.The Far Realms is impossible and insane. A place that cannot exist in D&amp;D reality according to its natural and magical laws. However the idea of the Far Realms can exist. That's no different from someone in the real world imagining a perpetual motion machine, despite them violating fundamental physics. They just can't build one.However, in the D&amp;D universe the power of psionics allows an idea to become real, and that's the route by which the Far Realms &quot;encroached&quot; into the Prime Material. The actual details of the encroachment could be left unsaid or speculative. Maybe a lot of latent psionicists dreamed of the Far Realms at the same time and it got a toehold? Maybe the universe's most powerful psychics went exploring and tried to astral travel to a plane that couldn't actually exist and their combined mental abilities were so potent that what the created or linked to a dimension they thought might be there?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6669970, member: 57383"] Personally, I have no objection to the Far Realms becoming part of the core D&D setting, but I really dislike the idea of Psionics being [I]from[/I] the Far Realms or a [I]response[/I] to the Far Realms' intrusion. If it was up to me, I'd do something like this: Psionics is the power of thought manifesting into reality. It is literally mind over matter. In the most potent cases, mind [I]becomes[/I] matter. The Far Realms is impossible and insane. A place that cannot exist in D&D reality according to its natural and magical laws. However the [I]idea[/I] of the Far Realms can exist. That's no different from someone in the real world imagining a perpetual motion machine, despite them violating fundamental physics. They just can't build one. However, in the D&D universe the power of psionics allows an idea to become real, and that's the route by which the Far Realms "encroached" into the Prime Material. The actual details of the encroachment could be left unsaid or speculative. Maybe a lot of latent psionicists dreamed of the Far Realms at the same time and it got a toehold? Maybe the universe's most powerful psychics went exploring and tried to [I]astral travel[/I] to a plane that couldn't actually exist and their combined mental abilities were so potent that what the created or linked to a dimension they [I]thought[/I] might be there? [/QUOTE]

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