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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 7674307" data-attributes="member: 92511">Sure. No reason not to do that.Agreed. This would be a good way to go, afaiac.I just want to call out the &quot;please no, not that ever&quot;. I see this attitude over and over...and I just don't get it. Are you [anyone?!] getting the psionics book without having the PHB already? The whole point of this book (or any other supplement), is that you're adding [some/all] of this material to your &quot;base&quot; game. So this &quot;they'd better not redirect me to the PHB [cuz having to open a second book is just too much work/trouble?!]&quot; really confuses/doesn't make sense to me. Who is getting a psionics manual without already having a set of the rules?For simplicity's sake, I could see/meet half-way and say there are no psionic powers that emulate spells from the PHB that do not appear in the free PDF Basic Rules! OR we could save ALL of the pages and supply the entire Psionics Powers list as a free PDF. While I am all for that as an additional medium for access, people, including myself, will yell about not always having access to a computer/allowing/wanting devices at their tables. I do NOT want the PnP TTRPG to become dependent on having a computer/online access!I'd be all for that. But I suspect it would further aggravate those who are already up-in-arms about &quot;rulings not rules&quot; [not that I feel they are deserving of any concession, myself. But WotC seems to want to dance that knife's edge.] and could make any/all use of psionics nearly exclusively DM-dependent material/choices. I'm not sure that can really work in the existing game framework. It may be possible, I'm just not sure how without turning all psi-stuff into pure DM fiat/imagination.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 7674307, member: 92511"] Sure. No reason not to do that. Agreed. This would be a good way to go, afaiac. I just want to call out the "please no, not that ever". I see this attitude over and over...and I just don't get it. Are you [anyone?!] getting the psionics book without having the PHB already? The whole point of this book (or any other supplement), is that you're adding [some/all] of this material to your "base" game. So this "they'd better not redirect me to the PHB [cuz having to open a second book is just too much work/trouble?!]" really confuses/doesn't make sense to me. Who is getting a psionics manual without already having a set of the rules? For simplicity's sake, I could see/meet half-way and say there are no psionic powers that emulate spells from the PHB that do not appear in the free PDF Basic Rules! OR we could save ALL of the pages and supply the entire Psionics Powers list as a free PDF. While I am all for that as an [I]additional [/I]medium for access, people, including myself, will yell about not always having access to a computer/allowing/wanting devices at their tables. I do NOT want the PnP TTRPG to become dependent on having a computer/online access! I'd be all for that. But I suspect it would further aggravate those who are already up-in-arms about "rulings not rules" [not that I feel they are deserving of any concession, myself. But WotC seems to want to dance that knife's edge.] and could make any/all use of psionics nearly exclusively DM-dependent material/choices. I'm not sure that can really work in the existing game framework. It may be possible, I'm just not sure how without turning all psi-stuff into pure DM fiat/imagination. [/QUOTE]

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