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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9631862" data-attributes="member: 2205">Because fantasy as it was conceived in the late 60s and early 70s; Gygax's formative years on the genre, was not so strictly defined where science fictiony concepts weren't around presumed to be inappropriate in fantasy. The Displacer Beast comes from a space opera story where it was some kind of predator on an alien world hunting astronauts. The gorillons come from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom stories on Mars. And on and on, and that's not even getting started on Barrier Peaks and Blackmoor.If you're asking why is it STILL done that way, many decades later when things have changed, I'd shrug and say probably inertia. Plus most people don't really use psionics much anyway.EDIT: I mean look at some of the trippy van art from that period, and tell me that psionics doesn't fit better than magic...</blockquote>