Today's Hot Button is related to a previous article, but I think it is worth debating on its own. Psionics (or psi powers, or psychic powers, etc) have traditionally had a troubled relationship in fantasy games, especially in Dungeons & Dragons and its various permutations and dirivatives. The first time I'd encountered psionics in RPGs was in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook (1e), which relegated psionics to ...

I can't stand playing in a Star Wars RPG. The problem, as I see it, is there's two types of players in any Star Wars game. There's the 80% of players who have seen some or all of the movies, know who the big names are, understand some of the bigger themes and plots, or have heard about the setting, acknowledge that it's pretty awesome and want to play in it. Then there's the ...