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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 1630005" data-attributes="member: 8461">It's somewhat ironic that I'm replying when I don't have the book yet (my FLGS will be paying dearly for that), but I'll try anyway.About the warforged thing...your idea seems great, but it's rather powerful...your idea of "absorb spells to power special effects" is much too open to abuse, since a few wands in the hands of a fellow party-member could keep that going all day. Likewise, they didn't seem to want to totally reinvent the wheel - the warforged and the shifter, from what I understand, are basically attempts to de-power a monster type to being LA +0.With regards to psionics, its simpler: WotC doesn't want to have a large component of the book be reliant of owning another book. That's a tactic from TSR, and WotC has avoided it like the plague, so its no surprise to see that here, especially as they're stepping up their attempts to draw in new people who have never played D&D before.As I said, I haven't read it yet, but I feel pretty confident I'll be enthralled. I believe that, while it does sound like it has great new mechanics (in the form of new existing paradigms, such as new spells, feats, etc.), that the real rub is in how those are used. The technomagical aspect really appeals to me, and I think I'll be suitably wowed when I finally get the ECS.</blockquote>