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WotC will likely be making a dedicated Psion class, as per recent tweets
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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7866032" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>I'm going to have to throw out an agreement that "5e doesn't support this style of gameplay" and "WoTC isn't providing me official support for my preferred style of gameplay" are completely different statements. </p><p></p><p>And 5e can support a lot of different elements. </p><p></p><p>You want horror? I've done horror in 5e, sometimes by accident. Horror is 75% atmoshpere and you can accomplish that with anything. Heck, one of the better horror games I know is Dread, whose character creation is a personality questionaire and uses the 3pp game Jenga for 95% of their rules. But, despite feeling like I was running it poorly, I learned a friend of mine suffers from anxiety because I freaked them out so bad with that game night. </p><p></p><p>Sci-Fi is just a coat of paint away, maybe a few modified rules. </p><p></p><p>Games heavy with political intrigue, games focused on cartoon antics and nonsense, games of straight beatstick fights, games of tactical thinking and positioning. 5e can handle all of them. </p><p></p><p>Is it the best system for all of them? No. Does it have official rules, stats, and erratas for all of them? No. But it can <u>handle </u>them</p><p></p><p>And since one of the first things we received from UA was a conversion breakdown for 4e and 3.5 materials.... I'd say that a quick check in your old rulebooks and an afternoons work might be all you need to handle anything those two systems could pull off too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7866032, member: 6801228"] I'm going to have to throw out an agreement that "5e doesn't support this style of gameplay" and "WoTC isn't providing me official support for my preferred style of gameplay" are completely different statements. And 5e can support a lot of different elements. You want horror? I've done horror in 5e, sometimes by accident. Horror is 75% atmoshpere and you can accomplish that with anything. Heck, one of the better horror games I know is Dread, whose character creation is a personality questionaire and uses the 3pp game Jenga for 95% of their rules. But, despite feeling like I was running it poorly, I learned a friend of mine suffers from anxiety because I freaked them out so bad with that game night. Sci-Fi is just a coat of paint away, maybe a few modified rules. Games heavy with political intrigue, games focused on cartoon antics and nonsense, games of straight beatstick fights, games of tactical thinking and positioning. 5e can handle all of them. Is it the best system for all of them? No. Does it have official rules, stats, and erratas for all of them? No. But it can [U]handle [/U]them And since one of the first things we received from UA was a conversion breakdown for 4e and 3.5 materials.... I'd say that a quick check in your old rulebooks and an afternoons work might be all you need to handle anything those two systems could pull off too. [/QUOTE]
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