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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 1630476" data-attributes="member: 5143">Well, yes.&nbsp; If WOTC put in a psionic prestige class, then there would be legions of people (As I'm guessing that less than half of D&amp;D players even own the XPH) saying &quot;I thought they said we didn't NEED the XPH to play Eberron?!?!!&nbsp; What am I going to do with this prestige class?&nbsp; It is useless and taking up space in my book!!&quot;You have to understand that there is a reason there isn't a LOT of new mechanics in the Eberron book.&nbsp; That would ruin the entire concept of &quot;This is a D&amp;D world, just like any other, with all the same feats, skills, monsters, only slightly different.&quot;&nbsp; Too different and you have a large amount of people who won't play because they don't want to learn a bunch of rules just to play in a different world, and too similar and not enough people will buy it.Plus, a lot of people are like me, and want to be able to use everything from their books.&nbsp; If their favorite character is a favoured soul, then there is a way to fit it into Eberron.&nbsp; If you want to be a psion, you can be from another continent where there are lots of them.&nbsp; But you'll notice that none of the organizations or NPCs say &quot;These are mostly Favoured Souls..&quot; because people without access to that book would be disappointed.The same, but different.&nbsp; I actually really like that.&nbsp; It will give a new feeling to the game, without changing the characters or mechanics we already know.&nbsp; It will ALLOW me to use any of my books without forcing me too.Majoru Oakheart</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 1630476, member: 5143"] Well, yes. If WOTC put in a psionic prestige class, then there would be legions of people (As I'm guessing that less than half of D&D players even own the XPH) saying "I thought they said we didn't NEED the XPH to play Eberron?!?!! What am I going to do with this prestige class? It is useless and taking up space in my book!!" You have to understand that there is a reason there isn't a LOT of new mechanics in the Eberron book. That would ruin the entire concept of "This is a D&D world, just like any other, with all the same feats, skills, monsters, only slightly different." Too different and you have a large amount of people who won't play because they don't want to learn a bunch of rules just to play in a different world, and too similar and not enough people will buy it. Plus, a lot of people are like me, and want to be able to use everything from their books. If their favorite character is a favoured soul, then there is a way to fit it into Eberron. If you want to be a psion, you can be from another continent where there are lots of them. But you'll notice that none of the organizations or NPCs say "These are mostly Favoured Souls.." because people without access to that book would be disappointed. The same, but different. I actually really like that. It will give a new feeling to the game, without changing the characters or mechanics we already know. It will ALLOW me to use any of my books without forcing me too. Majoru Oakheart [/QUOTE]

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