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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7813154" data-attributes="member: 996">I wouldn't consider /any/ of those (nor the Artificer) essential to &quot;most people's&quot; experience of D&amp;D.&nbsp; I'd hardly credit much beyond the Big 4 being /essential/ to /most/.OTOH, they're all candidates for creating a 'Gnome Effect,' if that ever really was a thing.&nbsp; The Warlord is merely /new/ compared to the others.&nbsp; The Artificer is coming because it's essential to Eberron.&nbsp; And psionics can't come later than Athas with borking that setting.&nbsp;Warlords were contrary to the Primacy of Magic, in their only appearance, because they rivaled casters in the formal Leader Role, they enabled viable martial-only parties.&nbsp; So, yeah, not only not the Essence of D&amp;D, but the antithesis, under this theory (ouch).Psionics, OTOH, are supernatural powers, in each of their incarnations they've been powerful, unique, &amp; limited in manageable ways.&nbsp; They fit fine.&nbsp; And, while they were more notorious than beloved back in the day, they have come back in every single ed since.&nbsp; They may not be /vital/ to the Essence of D&amp;D, but they're surely compatible with it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7813154, member: 996"] I wouldn't consider /any/ of those (nor the Artificer) essential to "most people's" experience of D&D. I'd hardly credit much beyond the Big 4 being /essential/ to /most/. OTOH, they're all candidates for creating a 'Gnome Effect,' if that ever really was a thing. The Warlord is merely /new/ compared to the others. The Artificer is coming because it's essential to Eberron. And psionics can't come later than Athas with borking that setting. Warlords were contrary to the Primacy of Magic, in their only appearance, because they rivaled casters in the formal Leader Role, they enabled viable martial-only parties. So, yeah, not only not the Essence of D&D, but the antithesis, under this theory (ouch). Psionics, OTOH, are supernatural powers, in each of their incarnations they've been powerful, unique, & limited in manageable ways. They fit fine. And, while they were more notorious than beloved back in the day, they have come back in every single ed since. They may not be /vital/ to the Essence of D&D, but they're surely compatible with it. [/QUOTE]

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