fromthe1980s
First Post
Since I laid hands on my 5e PHB, I've thought about making Professor X from Xmen or a similar type character. I even remarked: It would be easy to alter the Sorcerer for that. I was totally disappointed in the UA mystic.
Why couldn't psionics be a Sorcerer with permanent Subtle Spell? Many spells are perfectly suitable for fluffing as "psychic." Cantrips alone that could be: blade ward, dancing lights, friends, light, mage hand (fluff it as invisible maybe), mending, message, minor illusion, prestidigitation, true strike. In fact, some spells seems more suited to mind games that "arcane," illusions for example. Knowing that someone is in your head = friends cantrip.
Even spells that have a point of origin with the caster such as fireball could be realistically created "in the mind" as opposed to "from the weave."
Replace CHA with INT maybe.
Why couldn't psionics be a Sorcerer with permanent Subtle Spell? Many spells are perfectly suitable for fluffing as "psychic." Cantrips alone that could be: blade ward, dancing lights, friends, light, mage hand (fluff it as invisible maybe), mending, message, minor illusion, prestidigitation, true strike. In fact, some spells seems more suited to mind games that "arcane," illusions for example. Knowing that someone is in your head = friends cantrip.
Even spells that have a point of origin with the caster such as fireball could be realistically created "in the mind" as opposed to "from the weave."
Replace CHA with INT maybe.