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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 8065407" data-attributes="member: 6816692">I'm not that surprised by psionics and Strongholds. There is an excellent 3PP book on the market about strongholds&followers and I guess that most people who are interested in these themes already got that very dedicated tome. So why try to reinvent the wheel and waste precious development time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I thought psionics would end up in the polarized category though, even if I voted slightly againt it (a 3 or 4 I guess... btw I LOVED that 11 steps Likert scale). From my PoV I don't need psionics, but I don't hate it. Why I'm slightly against including it has already been said by other posters... all previous editions were either meh or broken and most players who desperately wanted to play a psionic character ended up annoying the hell out of me. (ot wanting to rant too much or derail the thread, but there were several categories of causes of annoyance:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">desperately wishing to play a psionic character in a specific setting where psionics has no place (and in an edition where psionics is 3PP material only). Special points for wanting to play a psionic race on top of it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">insisting that "nah psi is sooo different from magic and this is PSICRAFT and your magic rules don't apply to me" and pointing out that fact every other minute</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">abusing the fact that psionics is broken in a certain edition while rules-lawyering about 3PP material that clearly wasn't written for rules-lawyers</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">constantly begging the DM to give them their special psionic items that only psions can use</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">spending all their PP in a single encounter because they can heighten everything to max, then insisting on having their 3minWD</li> </ul></blockquote>

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