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<blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1709948" data-attributes="member: 6182">Someone asked what would have made the PlHB able to make PSers not unhappy:1) Keep PS out of it.&nbsp; That's right.&nbsp; The easiest way to have made PSers not annoyed (Sad, maybe, but not annoyed) at the book would be to have left the setting the heck alone.&nbsp; There is no reason to shove Sigil and other PS material on to the original Greyhawk Great Wheel.&nbsp; They're two different cosmology sets.&nbsp; Keeps PSers from being insulted and makes people who don't care for Sigil happy.2) Don't eliminate PS feel, just tuck it away.&nbsp; It has been officially stated that WotC wants to move away from modrons.&nbsp; Fine.&nbsp; Whatever.&nbsp; They could at least have officially included them in a paragraph blurb, as being busy consolodating power or whatever while the ant people run around the gears doing evil.&nbsp; Hell, they could have gotten ahold of one of their better artists and tried to get a version that fewer people would dub 'silly'.&nbsp; It also would have been obscenely easy to write &quot;Unknown&quot; for the Lady's stats rather than doing it in so arguably wrong a fashion.&nbsp; We're not supposed to know if the &quot;Lady of Pain&quot; is more than some old dude's illusiary non-aware guardian construct or the way his Mazer-Flayer spell is shaped.&nbsp; Now we have reason to believe she can give birth and be whalloped by an epic Chaos Hammer.3) Do Planar Touchstones in a manner that doesn't make one's eyes roll out of their skull.&nbsp; Touchstones should be treated much like portals.&nbsp; If someone knows they exist, they're going to guard it and either make money off of it, use it to empower themselves, or try to keep it out of the hands of others.&nbsp; You also don't just have random monster encounters in a fricking city.&nbsp; Not even in Sigil.4) Don't give DM-style information in a player's book.&nbsp; Players books should include spells, feats, skills, and classes.&nbsp; PrCs, Magic Items, and Sites belong in a DM book.&nbsp; The only book that has an excuse for ignoring this is the XPH, because it's just one single book, ever, for Psionics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Incenjucar, post: 1709948, member: 6182"] Someone asked what would have made the PlHB able to make PSers not unhappy: 1) Keep PS out of it. That's right. The easiest way to have made PSers not annoyed (Sad, maybe, but not annoyed) at the book would be to have left the setting the heck alone. There is no reason to shove Sigil and other PS material on to the original Greyhawk Great Wheel. They're two different cosmology sets. Keeps PSers from being insulted and makes people who don't care for Sigil happy. 2) Don't eliminate PS feel, just tuck it away. It has been officially stated that WotC wants to move away from modrons. Fine. Whatever. They could at least have officially included them in a paragraph blurb, as being busy consolodating power or whatever while the ant people run around the gears doing evil. Hell, they could have gotten ahold of one of their better artists and tried to get a version that fewer people would dub 'silly'. It also would have been obscenely easy to write "Unknown" for the Lady's stats rather than doing it in so arguably wrong a fashion. We're not supposed to know if the "Lady of Pain" is more than some old dude's illusiary non-aware guardian construct or the way his Mazer-Flayer spell is shaped. Now we have reason to believe she can give birth and be whalloped by an epic Chaos Hammer. 3) Do Planar Touchstones in a manner that doesn't make one's eyes roll out of their skull. Touchstones should be treated much like portals. If someone knows they exist, they're going to guard it and either make money off of it, use it to empower themselves, or try to keep it out of the hands of others. You also don't just have random monster encounters in a fricking city. Not even in Sigil. 4) Don't give DM-style information in a player's book. Players books should include spells, feats, skills, and classes. PrCs, Magic Items, and Sites belong in a DM book. The only book that has an excuse for ignoring this is the XPH, because it's just one single book, ever, for Psionics. [/QUOTE]

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