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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6799701" data-attributes="member: 996">AL notwisthanding, there's a sense that fan-made and 3pp content is just not as meaningful as official.  If you're emotionally invested in some past content seeing the light of day in the latest edition of your favorite game, a 3pp offering or homebrew or fan-published version isn't going to do anything but muddy the waters.  As a DM, it might be a fine resource to drop into your own campaign or use as a basis for your own homebrew.  As a player, you might be lucky enough to get to play it once or twice.  But as a fan, you've still been 'snubbed.'  Not only do they need to do both of those things, and come up with a definitive Ranger, and get Psionics into print.  The longer the wait to do it, the more walks-on-water awesome each of those things will have to be.  The Ranger and Sorcerer they can almost just leave-as-is, because they at least are there in the PH, at release, validating that they're legit concepts, and players & DMs can wrangle over improved versions.  But the content that's just not there, be it classes or settings, has to be given it's due at some point, or 5e will have failed in it's re-unification-of-the-fanbase mission.The definitive example we have to look back at is what Mike Mearls called "The Gnome Effect" - gnomes were probably the least popular race in the classic game, and yet their exclusion caused a major episode of nerdrage.  They were almost immediately available as a playable 'monster race' in the MM, and became an official PC race in the PH2, only 9 months later, and it was already too late.  Psionics and the last 'missing' classic class, the Monk, became available within two years in the PH3 (21 months in).  5e is in it's second year, 17 months in, with psionics showing up only in UA, and nothing to show in print but a few desultory sub-classes in SCAG.</blockquote>

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