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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6985058" data-attributes="member: 59082">So what you're saying is basically a variant on, "I don't like how 5E is doing things different from my personal associations and what my preferred approach is." Tons of people have versions of that and there's no way to avoid it, nor do I think it was ever the serious intention of WotC to try to make every single fan happy with every single aspect of 5E. What they have done--and in a way that I think exceeds reasonably expectations--is please a rather sizable percentage of players, which is the best they could have possibly done.Perhaps I should have written "false equation" or "false conflation" in that sentence. But I do know what false dichotomy means, I just misused it in that sentence. But the false dichotomy is between D&D tradition and not pleasing all fans, or between D&D tradition and taking new approaches which can still honor tradition.5E is including psionics. So far you've said that you're unhappy about the word "mystic," the (presumed) lack of certain terminology, and the use of Far Realms flavor text. Fair enough, but why is that a bigger problem than a mild irritation? I get that. But "giant middle finger" seems a tad hyperbolic (not to mention that you don't need to use their flavor text and you can re-skin it however you want).I haven't been following UA closely so I don't know if they've stated the reason they are using mystic, but I assume it is because it is more fantastical and less scifi-ish. As I said up-thread, it is an avoidance of the midichlorian approach, or rationalized magic. I personally like that approach.</blockquote>

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