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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5756708" data-attributes="member: 54877">Well, for a DDI version, it might be tenable to include keywords specifically for that, possibly dusting off the 3E "extraordinary" and "supernatural" as a couple of the categories. Every power gets one such keyword, from "mundane" to maybe "gonzo". Mundane means that this power more or less plausible in the D&D, non-magical physics. Extraordinary means that is plausible the same way, but assuming some unlikely in the real world training, genetics, etc. All right up to "gonzo," which means, "don't use this unless you want lots of gonzo; we really mean it!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Of course, you'd need a good cross section in the printed books, but that isn't that big of a problem if they get rid of redunant powers and don't stick to a separate list for every class. For online, it gets even easier. Merely allow filtering by keywords. If they get a few keywords off, no sweat. That is the kind of errata that doesn't really hurt anything, as all it touches is the filter. (And people using everything, not even them.)  If careful on the keywords, you could use the same technique for other flavorings (and thus use more than one per entry, where warranted). For example, there are rare occasions when I enjoy the quasi-technical, crazy gnomish stuff, or those mad wizard devices. But usually, I don't want that in my game. But I don't want it out, either, because it is part of D&D from the very beginning, and a lot of people like it. Would be nice to exclude all that with a filter and/or two lines in a campaign document.  But mainly, if you have that kind of system built in, you can be conservative with the keywords, but very liberal with what you include, and get the best of both worlds. Yep, right there in the weapon list are firearms and double-bladed self-maiming Dire Maul wannabee swords, but with appropriate keywords.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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