That sounds like as good a place to start as any, and it sounds pretty interesting. Would you like to spearhead the write-up for a Monk-esque build?I have not yet read through the thread, but I am looking for a Bene Gesserit, which is what the Mystic partly gave us. A monk with flashier mental powers and a lot of flexibility.
@Shiroiken - I like the Warlock as a template...the more I think about it, the better sense it makes to me. Quick question though: why does it have proficiency in Light armor? This seems like the sort of thing that should be dependent upon the subclass chosen (similar to the Hexblade) and not the default for all psions. Is this a balance issue?
So far in these two pages of 35 posts we've seen 35 different opinions and ideas of what the Psion needs to be.
And we wonder why what WotC presented didn't work for anyone. Because no one can agree on what Psionics should be, what they should do, and how they should do it. Not so surpringly... the exact same rigamarole we saw four years ago when people kept trying to create a Warlord for 5E. Every single idea got crushed into paste.
I think this is why WotC went with the "conservative" route... because anything they do will be decimated on the boards by 95% of the players anyway who don't actually know what they want. So why bother? Just like with spell components, they give us a very bland, hand-wavy, easily-understood default, under the expectation that everyone who is that fanatical about it is going to jerry-rig their own version of it regardless (like you all are trying to do now.)
Just remember as you do though... we've had several dozen attempts at creating Warlords in 5E over the years and I don't know of a single one that has actually gained any traction with even the EN World community, let alone the general gaming populace. And you're probably going to find the same thing happening here. Because no one is going to agree on how it should be done.
If anything, spell points are slightly less whack and inaccessible than spontaneous slot-casting, especially neo-Vancian prep-and-cast-spontaneously. (I mean, 'slot' itself, is pretty counter-intuitive as a resource that powers spellcasting.The core class should use slots as normal, but have an extensive sidebar (filled with Tables and Multiclass Rules) that details the spell points optional rules...
the Psion has a higher chance of being accepted by the population at large, by making integration into existing games and adoption by new players much easier
The Psion is going to be an 'optional rule,' anyway, it's not in the PH, it's in the option ghetto.while purposely drawing attention to an idea that will placate the existing Fanbase. Yes, power points would be an "Optional Rule" at that point
Heck, the ranger is an official class and there are still more takes on it than the psionic.My issue with this take is that if there was no Ranger or Paladin or Berserker, there'd be just as many attempts at those classes too. Psion is not unique in this aspect.