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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8596607" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>The lore being short is because it's an add-on that is not used in many campaign settings. Even in Eberron you have the Kalashtar and that's about it - and the lore for the Aberrant Mind, the Soulknife, and the Abberrant Mind might be "good enough" for an Eberron campaign that is going to be focused on Khorvaire or Xen'drick and not Sarlona.</p><p></p><p>If they decide to release Athas as a published setting, that's where I'd expect the psionic lore to get more detailed. And also where I'd expect to see either more subclasses or a full-blown psionicist class. Or if for some reason they release a second Eberron book about Sarlona (which I don't see happening, but I guess anything can). Or if some new settings come along that might use it.</p><p></p><p>However I'm going to disagree that your 5 scoring folks would agree on an implementation. I think Wizards is basically screwed with most (though not all) of those folks - there isn't going to be a 5e implementation that will satisfy all of them because they're so invested in their own vision of psionics that whatever Wizards does is going to be wrong. It won't be enough like 2e. It'll be too much like 2e and not enough like 3e. It'll be too much like 3e. And so on. I agree with Paul that it's mostly going to be the 3 and 4 folks in your reckoning who are going to be happy with wherever we land.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8596607, member: 19857"] The lore being short is because it's an add-on that is not used in many campaign settings. Even in Eberron you have the Kalashtar and that's about it - and the lore for the Aberrant Mind, the Soulknife, and the Abberrant Mind might be "good enough" for an Eberron campaign that is going to be focused on Khorvaire or Xen'drick and not Sarlona. If they decide to release Athas as a published setting, that's where I'd expect the psionic lore to get more detailed. And also where I'd expect to see either more subclasses or a full-blown psionicist class. Or if for some reason they release a second Eberron book about Sarlona (which I don't see happening, but I guess anything can). Or if some new settings come along that might use it. However I'm going to disagree that your 5 scoring folks would agree on an implementation. I think Wizards is basically screwed with most (though not all) of those folks - there isn't going to be a 5e implementation that will satisfy all of them because they're so invested in their own vision of psionics that whatever Wizards does is going to be wrong. It won't be enough like 2e. It'll be too much like 2e and not enough like 3e. It'll be too much like 3e. And so on. I agree with Paul that it's mostly going to be the 3 and 4 folks in your reckoning who are going to be happy with wherever we land. [/QUOTE]
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