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What do you think a psychic class should look like in 5e?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wrathamon" data-source="post: 6371141" data-attributes="member: 7989"><p>Tossing ideas out to see what sticks ... </p><p></p><p>the idea someone had with the expertise dice gave me this</p><p></p><p>Psionic classes access their powers (wether this is their mind or soul connecting with the weave through mental discipline or they are just tapping into power that is not magic) they get a number of power dice.</p><p></p><p>On their turn, if they have psionic focus, that takes an action to get into a proper mental state, they can roll these dice to power their abilities or hold some in reserve to use reaction ability or counter other psionic attacks (mental defenses).</p><p></p><p>Each power has a point cost to manifest. Designate how many dice your going to roll. If you met or exceed the cost you are successful. Exploding die might be nice here.</p><p>If you exceed the cost by double it uses the Augmented version of the ability.</p><p></p><p>Enemy psions can use dice to try and counter your manifestations by expending dice as a reaction (certain mental defense)</p><p></p><p>A psion can just expend their power dice as a Mind Blast. Make a Will save or take that much psychic damage. this expends the psions focus as they are unleashing a massive amount of mental energy and they roll on a "backlash" chart to see if any weird crazy stuff happens. They have to regain their focus again. <-- this might be too Nova-ish depending on how many power dice they get.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wrathamon, post: 6371141, member: 7989"] Tossing ideas out to see what sticks ... the idea someone had with the expertise dice gave me this Psionic classes access their powers (wether this is their mind or soul connecting with the weave through mental discipline or they are just tapping into power that is not magic) they get a number of power dice. On their turn, if they have psionic focus, that takes an action to get into a proper mental state, they can roll these dice to power their abilities or hold some in reserve to use reaction ability or counter other psionic attacks (mental defenses). Each power has a point cost to manifest. Designate how many dice your going to roll. If you met or exceed the cost you are successful. Exploding die might be nice here. If you exceed the cost by double it uses the Augmented version of the ability. Enemy psions can use dice to try and counter your manifestations by expending dice as a reaction (certain mental defense) A psion can just expend their power dice as a Mind Blast. Make a Will save or take that much psychic damage. this expends the psions focus as they are unleashing a massive amount of mental energy and they roll on a "backlash" chart to see if any weird crazy stuff happens. They have to regain their focus again. <-- this might be too Nova-ish depending on how many power dice they get. [/QUOTE]
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