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<blockquote data-quote="Sir Elton" data-source="post: 1936304" data-attributes="member: 14486"><p><rant></p><p> Remember when I said I was inspired by Frank Frazetta? Well, I got opposite inspiration from the many sword-and-sorcery and medieval romance settings for d20. There are so many it's like kicking a dead horse.</p><p> </p><p> What's more sick is that many are based off tolkien's work. I realized how sick I really was on the sword and sorcery genre of world settings when I was writing down my current project. I had originally thought of Atlantis as a psi-heavy world for 3e psionics (the <em>Psionics Handbook</em>). I even wrote up a treatment for a campaign setting, describing some details on how I want the world to be. It was ingenius (at least in my mind), since no one has tried something in quite the same way since Athas.</p><p> </p><p> Then it happened. I got stuck between what I wanted and what other people wanted. I subconsciously wanted to do a psi setting, but I said that others wanted something else. As a result, I had great ideas, but I couldn't do anything. >:</p><p> </p><p> Now, I'm mad. I'm mad for listening to other people. I'm mad for kowtowing at what they wanted and I was producing sucky stuff. I'm MAD at being impotent because I was "listening" to other people instead of doing what I wanted in my heart.</p><p> </p><p> I'M BLOODY MAD THAT PEOPLE THINK THAT PSIONICS IS OVERPOWERED OR SUCKS! And I'm sick and tired of people saying so. Geeze people-who-think-3.5e-psionics-is-overpowered-or-sucks, read <em>The Expanded Psionics Handbook</em> thoroughly, it's not that hard to get that it isn't overpowered. After reading a bit of Edgar Rice Burroughs and looking at Frazetta paintings, I'm still inspired by Frank and Burroughs.</p><p> </p><p> But I decided to scrap all reference to sword and sorcery for Atlantis. Like I said, sword and sorcery has been over done. I'm going try experimenting with ground that hasn't been covered since the Deryni novels and Darkover novels. I'm going to create an Atlantis campaign setting that has overtones of <em>psionic romance. </em>And if any of you people-who-think-3.5e-psionics-is-overpowered-or-sucks are going to try and stop me, well then, that for you! >snaps fingers<</p><p> </p><p> </rant></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sir Elton, post: 1936304, member: 14486"] <rant> Remember when I said I was inspired by Frank Frazetta? Well, I got opposite inspiration from the many sword-and-sorcery and medieval romance settings for d20. There are so many it's like kicking a dead horse. What's more sick is that many are based off tolkien's work. I realized how sick I really was on the sword and sorcery genre of world settings when I was writing down my current project. I had originally thought of Atlantis as a psi-heavy world for 3e psionics (the [i]Psionics Handbook[/i]). I even wrote up a treatment for a campaign setting, describing some details on how I want the world to be. It was ingenius (at least in my mind), since no one has tried something in quite the same way since Athas. Then it happened. I got stuck between what I wanted and what other people wanted. I subconsciously wanted to do a psi setting, but I said that others wanted something else. As a result, I had great ideas, but I couldn't do anything. >: Now, I'm mad. I'm mad for listening to other people. I'm mad for kowtowing at what they wanted and I was producing sucky stuff. I'm MAD at being impotent because I was "listening" to other people instead of doing what I wanted in my heart. I'M BLOODY MAD THAT PEOPLE THINK THAT PSIONICS IS OVERPOWERED OR SUCKS! And I'm sick and tired of people saying so. Geeze people-who-think-3.5e-psionics-is-overpowered-or-sucks, read [i]The Expanded Psionics Handbook[/i] thoroughly, it's not that hard to get that it isn't overpowered. After reading a bit of Edgar Rice Burroughs and looking at Frazetta paintings, I'm still inspired by Frank and Burroughs. But I decided to scrap all reference to sword and sorcery for Atlantis. Like I said, sword and sorcery has been over done. I'm going try experimenting with ground that hasn't been covered since the Deryni novels and Darkover novels. I'm going to create an Atlantis campaign setting that has overtones of [i]psionic romance. [/i]And if any of you people-who-think-3.5e-psionics-is-overpowered-or-sucks are going to try and stop me, well then, that for you! >snaps fingers< </rant> [/QUOTE]
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