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<blockquote data-quote="Mirrorrorrim" data-source="post: 9327533" data-attributes="member: 7040132">A Psionics system is a wholecloth variant system for the use of magic. Many fans like it because that is how they see magic, as opposed to &quot;Vancian&quot; spell slot magic. Both ideas fight for supremacy over their impact in a campaign setting, especially a D&amp;D IP setting where psionics isn't an existing part of the published society in that campaign setting. Both systems need to be able to do the same things as the other, but many psionic fans want those same things to be different. How are telepathy and telekinesis and other powers different between magic and psionics? Outside of the retired Dark Sun setting, Wizards IP doesn't have a campaign setting that makes historical sense for psionics to be as broad as magic but different from it. Even in Eberron, psionics is an offshoot concept that is not mainstream (primarily seen on the continent of Sarlona that gets no screen time).That's why it might be best if multiple fully-fledged psionic systems are created by 3rd parties who can develop the story of the power source so that it fits lore-wise in their campaign setting (broad class and powers treatments, species, monsters, organizations, et cetera.) I say multiple systems because people just don't agree what such a system should look like. Let Steampunkette and LevelUp be the source of Good psionics design variants. If a 3rd party creates a cool campaign setting, that utilizes a well-designed psionics system that fits into that world really well, that might be something that Wizards can make a deal and get into DDB as an option. But I don't think such a publication is on Wizards' agenda.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mirrorrorrim, post: 9327533, member: 7040132"] A Psionics system is a wholecloth variant system for the use of magic. Many fans like it because that is how they [I]see[/I] magic, as opposed to "Vancian" spell slot magic. Both ideas fight for supremacy over their impact in a campaign setting, especially a D&D IP setting where psionics isn't an existing part of the published society in that campaign setting. Both systems need to be able to do the same things as the other, but many psionic fans want those same things to be different. How are telepathy and telekinesis and other powers different between magic and psionics? Outside of the retired Dark Sun setting, Wizards IP doesn't have a campaign setting that makes historical sense for psionics to be as broad as magic but different from it. Even in Eberron, psionics is an offshoot concept that is not mainstream (primarily seen on the continent of Sarlona that gets no screen time). That's why it might be best if multiple fully-fledged psionic systems are created by 3rd parties who can develop the story of the power source so that it fits lore-wise in their campaign setting (broad class and powers treatments, species, monsters, organizations, et cetera.) I say multiple systems because people just don't agree what such a system should look like. Let Steampunkette and LevelUp be the source of Good psionics design variants. If a 3rd party creates a cool campaign setting, that utilizes a well-designed psionics system that fits into that world really well, that might be something that Wizards can make a deal and get into DDB as an option. But I don't think such a publication is on Wizards' agenda. [/QUOTE]

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