D&D 5E What's wrong with this psion?

[WayOfTheFourElements]

You are certainly entitled to your feelings, but understand that your uses of "homebrew" falls outside of the norm of conventional usage. The very nature of the term homebrew presumes a non-homebrew baseline, much as the cognitive concept of "island" is defined by the water that surrounds it.

Agreed. The non-homebrew baseline is OD&D.

 

[Aldarc]

Agreed. The non-homebrew baseline is OD&D.

You are putting words in my mouth, which is quite rude, because I do not agree with your thesis here.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

And you're following them
.If you deviate then you are not following the "main homebrew" where psionics is notspells and your opinion is unimportant to matters of core, lore, and logic.

Either you are following the game rules or you're not.

There are no game rules, only guidelines and suggestions with varying levels of haughtiness.

 

[Minigiant]

Agreed. The non-homebrew baseline is OD&D.

where psionics wasn't spells.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

You are putting words in my mouth, which is quite rude, because I do not agree with your thesis here.

I agree with your island metaphor that separate the game from the homebrew. For me, OD&D is the island, everything else is someone's homebrew, whether yours, Mike, or Monty's. For me, they're all on equal footing.

 

[Aldarc]

For me, OD&D is the island, everything else is someone's homebrew.

Therein is the rub, because this is not a tenable, reasonable, or conventional understanding of 'homebrew.' Homebrew presumes a baseline from a standard. There is a homebrewed OD&D. There is homebrewed 5e D&D. There is homebrewed 2e D&D. I would be interested in how you could possibly argue that all other D&D other than OD&D is homebrew while actually using a standard understanding of "homebrew."

 

[Minigiant]

There are no game rules, only guidelines and suggestions with varying levels of haughtiness.

Okay howvabout this
Tradition

Either
5e is breaking tradition by being the only edition with base homebrew that has "psionics as spells" for ease of use.
OR
5e is breaking tradition by having a base homebrew that make all magic processes be all fluff and turning D&D magic into a soft system.

Pick one.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Okay howvabout this
Tradition

Either
5e is breaking tradition by being the only edition with base homebrew that has "psionics as spells" for ease of use.
OR
5e is breaking tradition by having a base homebrew that make all magic processes be all fluff and turning D&D magic into a soft system.

Pick one.

I think reverence to tradition is silly. Everyone should use whatever rules work for his/her world. Mike's homebrew decided on spells. Your homebrew can use something else. Personally, I like Mike's ideas here, so I'll probably use them. You don't need to.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Therein is the rub, because this is not a tenable, reasonable, or conventional understanding of 'homebrew.' Homebrew presumes a baseline from a standard. There is a homebrewed OD&D. There is homebrewed 5e D&D. There is homebrewed 2e D&D. I would be interested in how you could possibly argue that all other D&D other than OD&D is homebrew while actually using a standard understanding of "homebrew."

Simple: I disagree with your conventional definition.

 

[Aldarc]

Simple: I disagree with your conventional definition.

Then you will have to argue why mine is wrong and yours is better than the conventional understanding of "homebrew." But this is something that you have yet to do either convincingly or at all. How is the conventional understanding of "homebrew" wrong?