[SCOOP] Psionics 3.5, The New Setting, and Dark Sun!!

[Voneth]

Good news all around! If it is true.

I would still perfer a skill based system. But I could handle the current system if it was boosted in healing and canned the psi combat system

[sarcasm] They already did that in d20 Modern and everyone was so upset. [/sarcasm]

 

[Dragongirl]

Would it help if I were to say that I believe The Dragon?

Well if the prehensile one says so, that is another matter altogether.

 

[Technik4]

Dark Sun, Psionics, Revisions Oh my

My .000002. I'd be willing to buy a core Dark Sun book. I am very dubious about buying another Psi Handbook. The one I own gets very little use as it is, hard to justify buying ANOTHER one when this one isnt even very worn. Maybe if they added an adventure and like ALL of sound mind (which I never bought because I can't find anywhere that sells the book). I would definitely download the SRD and update my books on 3.5 psionics for free though. Lots of room to expand, imo.

Oh, and Im down for buying some Dark Sun adventure modules if a company does a good job on them.

Psionic Combat, kinda weird, fun if everyone is psionic (or a little, which may be the case in the Dark Sun setting) but not so fun if only one player is.

Technik

 

[WanderingMonster]

Well, if the new setting is psionics heavy, and Dark Sun is being resurrected then it makes sense to revise psionics. It sucks, but it makes sense. To recap:

New Setting: Yay!
Dark Sun: Yay!!
Psionics Revised: Boo. [basically I'm just not pleased about the whoe 3.5 thing anyway]

 

[Aaron L]

Rad beyond belief.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Since psionics is in the SRD, it would make sense that any revision to psionics would also be in the SRD. That makes it as free as the rest of the changes involved in 3.5. Buy it again if you want, log the changes from the SRD if you don't.

 

[Nightfall]

Well, if Morrus believes The Dragon, I guess the only thing to do is wait for the Stone of Tear to fall. *heads off, making sure there aren't any Aiel lurking in his pantry*

In any case, all of this seems like good news.

Best,
tKL

LOL! Good one Kajamba. Well I'm sure the DS fans (and some Scarred Lands fans too!) are happy about this one. Myself, hey it's all good isn't it?

 

[Terraism]

Woohoo!

Can't be happier, I'm thinking. Woohoo!

 

[Voneth]

I coulda swore that one of the things TSR did wrong, according to the WotC brass, was branch out into a bunch of different settings, losing its focus, and making books that few people would buy, compared to more generic splats that were generally more useful to everyone and less campiagn-specific.

It also goes against their rule that nothing they put out for D&D would require anything but the core books.

I am very skeptical of this...

I agree and then I remembered a few things. Wotc said the main problem with what TSR did was to set up so many settings and then try support them all. This is why CoC and WoT have only a couple of books. I guess SW is different enough and is a seperate audience enough that they don't see it that way. I also remember hearing that WotC has a new policy, if someone buys a licence from them, WotC gets to publish the core setting book and the licencee get the supplements and adventures. Dragonlance is supposed to be like this, though Ravenloft is not.

And one of the advantages of the d20 OGL is that it allows small publishers to take on projects with a profit margin that is too small for WotC, so perhaps WotC is getting ready to publish a Dark Sun book for a licencee, which makes sense when you look at the pattern:

*Ravenloft's offical fan website get a conversion done, sold to SS.

*Dragonlance's original author's get their fan website up and going as the offical website, their company gets the DL licence.

*The offical fan Website of Darksun is finally getting near their time to present their 3e rules. Hmmm.

 

[Nightfall]

Not to mention the fact they sold Gamma world too. And WotC has sold some of the rights to their Warcraft stuff to S&SS.