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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9769787" data-attributes="member: 7006">Anyone using Bastions?  That was 5E24's "experimental" rule system that WotC had never done before.If anyone says they need WotC to be experimental but doesn't actually use the one thing that could satisfy their needs for experiment is a pretty good indication why one's demand for "experimental" design can be ignored.  Because odds-are that any other "experimental" thing WotC makes will be another one you'd not use either.  Wanting something "experimental" for the sake of it being "experimental" is a pointless request.What any of you actually want is just a ruleset that you yourself want to use (experimental or no).  But WotC cannot design for that because they have no idea whatsoever of whatever sort of whackadoo thing every single individual would find useable.  I mean take a look over in the non-spellcaster psion thread (in addition to every other psion, warlord, and arcane half-caster thread ever made over these last 11 years)... all kinds of people just throwing random ideas they think they might like but none of which has a definitive design concept.  And if someone ever did come up with a definitive design concept, no one would use it.  You know how I know?  Because we have countless Psions, Warlords, and Arcane Half-Casters up and down DMs Guild and across the internet fully designed by all of you kinds of folks who are throwing out your ideas of what you might want... these designs fully-made, fully-written, ready to be put on the table and played... and none of you are using them.So if you can't even like these 3rd Party designs that go in the types of experimental directions you want... what makes any of you think that WotC could somehow by the grace of god come up with another Psion design in addition to the multiples times they've done them for 5E and you would actually LIKE the result?  Most likely what will happen is exactly what has happened with everyone who kept yelling and crying "We need Planesape!"  We need Dragonlance!"  "We need Spelljammer!"  WotC'll eventually give it to you, and you'll come back with "Well, yeah we wanted it... but not like THAT!"And I bet that'd be your precise reactions even if WotC somehow ever created a non-spellcasting Psion too.  So why should WotC bother?</blockquote>

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