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What psionics need is not a different way to do things, but different things to do than arcane and devine magic.

I agree in that I think that psionics should be different from the other types of magic. I have to say I have always seen the way that magic works as being a Triangle of sorts. Mages get their power from books, which is a very structured style of magic, and power. Priests get theirs from an outside source. Where Psionics is the other balancing effect of this triangle. Its not an outside source its an internal one, and its structured but unlike mage magic its not learned from books or any such thing.

Its book learning, divine, and the mind or will depending on how you view it. And I think a Triangle for magic works.

I would love to see a Pathfinder version of Psionics. To update the rules, and help balance out settings. I think psionics bring something that the other magic types just don't.

The other questions were: How can I get you to buy a psionics book and use it in your campaign?

Make one that's good is the simple answer. I would buy a book of psionics from pathfinder just to see if its good, or because you made one. To be honest. But as a fan, I would like to see something that helps flesh out campaigns and such better. That is balanced, as the XPH book is, and well done of course.

Mind you I expect all that from you anyway as the Beta is so why wouldn't anything else you do be so. Mostly I would like to see you make it your own. Keep what you like throw away the rest. If you want suggestions ask Ed Bonny, I love the man's work for Lost Empires of Faerun, and his psionic Forgotten Realms stuff was good. They just didn't publish most of it. But that's because they are the Red Wizards of the coast.

What is an absolute deal-breaker?

A deal breaker to me would be not supporting the product. One thing that irritates the heck out of me is when cool ideas come along, and you buy the book, and it never gets updates, new prcs, or even remembered it seems.

My issue with this is the fact that it would be cheaper to buy a magic item from someone else then to make your own? That makes no sense to me. I also want to run a build game for my characters. Which they can build items, and such.

I think that the cost of making the items should either go down, or the price of them go up........

I plan on running my local gaming group (college Guild) through a Beta game, I figure we will test some of the conversions for Forgotten Realms, but I am tempted to buy the Pathfinder campaign setting. As 4e Realms is just corrupt to me.

But congrats on a great game, and selling out a gencon. Wish I had bought that goblin shirt when I saw it the first time!

I would be interested in seeing a ecology of the Elan, as well as the unbodied. mostly because they are so mysterious and would be helpful for some things i have planned for a campain.

Ironically i don't really care about the moonsea that we already know about which is where the book they made if you want to call it that focused on i wanted to have them update some of the more unknown regions of the area and give us some updated information, but be that as it may they could still salvage it a bit if they created a dragon series that focuses on various parts of the realms. Maybe not a overview but more indepth of regions would be cool, but its just and idea.

Speaking of races i would love to see return to their roots, i miss the cat lords. Yes yes they did a crappy redo of them in the epic level handbook but still its not the cool catlords race i remember and miss.

Okay so if i annouce that psionics just needs to get some good articles and such submitted to Dragon..... on the Wizard boards you mean to say it might actually be heard? Awsome on it!!!

I would love to see some more psionic material to keep psionics alive and kicking. Mage magic or Arcane magic seems to have like billions of spells while Psionics has maybe a hundred powers. I would also love to see and ecology on the Elans and hear more about them and how they relate to already created worlds, ie Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk (if you must) and Ebberron. In addition to all that being a huge realms fan i would love to learn more about the various gods from the realms perhaps a Spotlight on their faiths, even the dead, gods might be interesting. I know i am interested in Auppenser even though he is just sleeping. Anyone else got stuff they would love to see appear in Dragon.

Well i think we all agree about MofM but back on subject what would you like to see Forgotten Realm wise concerning Dragon Magazine. I would love to see some stuff on Calmiport, or the Reach or well anywhere. They could do Moonsea, as that would kinda ammuse me if they gave us new material from the realms in Dragon instead of oh say the book you payed for lol.

I too would love to see some more Realm Articles and i think that the idea of killing two birds with one stone is a good one. I love Jhaamdath, and psionics. I would love to see some more stuff on Auppenser. If Ed Bonny was allowed to to an article it would kill three birds actually, it would provide a faith article, something on Jhaamdath, and some new psionic stuff. Psionics doesn't get nearly enough attention, and i can understand why but it would be nice to have at least an article once and a while. But according to Ed via the Candlekeep website he will be approaching or has as it has been a while since he posted there, them for an article on some stuff, hopefully it involves the realms!
Oh yeah they should do some updates, maybe an article per each region would work! that's a great idea !!!