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<blockquote data-quote="chengarino" data-source="post: 638211" data-attributes="member: 4362">Psionics are core because Mind Flayers are Core...Nuf said <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Treating psionis from the Illithid and the Gith folks as 'special powers' is far more kludgey than incluing their powers as 'core powers' that other PCs may participate in.Psionics (as it is described in PsiHB) is more fantasy as the iconic mystic than the Wizard (as it is described in the PHB). So, I don't buy the 'dilute the fantasy' element at all.But, i do doubt their inclusion in the revised core. It will probably remain the oft-neglected step-child of the core classes. And, when it is handled by WoTC, it will be by cut-and-paste into non-Psionic material (ie, Epic Handbook).I do like psionics. They offer a power-based magic system. The classes are balanced. And, poping an intellect devourer onto a group is only slightly less entertaining than a poping a rust monster onto a over-dressed paladin.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chengarino, post: 638211, member: 4362"] [b]Psionics are core because Mind Flayers are Core...[/b] Nuf said :p Treating psionis from the Illithid and the Gith folks as 'special powers' is far more kludgey than incluing their powers as 'core powers' that other PCs may participate in. Psionics (as it is described in PsiHB) is more fantasy as the iconic mystic than the Wizard (as it is described in the PHB). So, I don't buy the 'dilute the fantasy' element at all. But, i do doubt their inclusion in the revised core. It will probably remain the oft-neglected step-child of the core classes. And, when it is handled by WoTC, it will be by cut-and-paste into non-Psionic material (ie, Epic Handbook). I do like psionics. They offer a power-based magic system. The classes are balanced. And, poping an intellect devourer onto a group is only slightly less entertaining than a poping a rust monster onto a over-dressed paladin. [/QUOTE]

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