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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malcolypse" data-source="post: 5245990" data-attributes="member: 92042">we all know that technically correct is the best kind of correct. i fully conceed that the original implementation of psionics was just a neat little thing that could be thrown in as an option and the chances of it being unbalancing to a game were pretty much nil.  the thing that it's grown into is a perversion of its original inclusion.  the rarity and quirkiness of psionics were what made them interesting, but nowadays you can't walk into a poorly lit tavern without jostling four psychic warriors and a soulknife. i guess i don't have a problem with psionics when they're in their place. i would never consider running dark sun without psionics. anytime i'm told that anything ok'd by the dm is kosher in the game about to be run, i consider playing a thri-kreen (i have mad giant-bug-love, dunno why) and just explain if someone asks about my peoples crazy psychic powers that i was born mindblind and that is why i am more comfortable adventuring amongst the barbarians than back in a proper, bug-filled civilization. edit: and i'm pretty sure that knee-jerk should have been hyphenated. sorry for that. :end edit</blockquote>