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Unearthed Arcana New Unearthed Arcana: Psionics!

There’s a new Unearthed Arcana article out, and it’s all about psionics! "Their minds bristling with power, three new subclasses arrive in today’s Unearthed Arcana: the Psychic Warrior for the fighter, the Soulknife for the rogue, and the tradition of Psionics for the wizard."

There’s a new Unearthed Arcana article out, and it’s all about psionics! "Their minds bristling with power, three new subclasses arrive in today’s Unearthed Arcana: the Psychic Warrior for the fighter, the Soulknife for the rogue, and the tradition of Psionics for the wizard."

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In this 9-page PDF, there are also some new psionics-themed spells (including versions of classic psionic powers like id insinuation and ego whip) and two new feats.
 

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Ashrym

Legend
No 4e made a class sure but "resembling" is umm not so much they had points to allocate and track and many more at-will attacks and so on. Quite experimental.

They were still AEDU. Power points and at-will gave them some uniqueness while having a lot of at-will and not a lot of encounter but I don't think that's a more considerable gap to 3e's power points vs spell charts. 3e and 4e just resemble the general class structures more and treat psionics more like spells and powers.

One thing psions don't have going from edition to edition is consistency in class structure.

EDIT: I think 4e's use of power points to augment at-will powers brings it even more in line with sorcerers after looking back at it.
 

Stalker0

Legend
I think making the Psion a subclass is fine but I think it should be for the sorc. That handles all of the flavor needs, innate magic, no spell book, get the power right at 1st level instead of “suddenly” becoming Psionic later on, etc.

the subclass could start with letting sorcs use int instead of charisma for spelldcs, and maybe give some free use of the subtle meta magic ability. Then give them access to these new Psionic spells just as divine souls get special access to spells. And your off to the races.
 



the Jester

Legend
The martial artist class also doesn't count because it was psionic in name only.

I hardly think it's fair to judge what psionics have been like in the game based on what you prefer rather than actually going by the rules that were in place. 4e monks are explicitly psionic (as was the 1e revised monk from Dragon Magazine (and later the Best of Dragon vol. 2 or 3, can't recall exactly), which gave them many psionic or quasi-psionic abilities).
 


I imagine monks, and samurai, ninja and sohei, as class with ki as power source. A psionic monk is possible, but as subclass. Psionic and ki may be linked, but they aren't the same (and incarnum and ki also are different things, aren't they?). And the most of martial maneuvers by warblade, swordsage or crusader, the martial adept classes, should be ki, but spell-like effects, then theses should be arcane or divine magic.

The psionic mystic has got a different point of view. The wizard studies, learns and investigate, the sorcerer trains to improve her techniques, like artist with her tools, but the psionic is training with herself, as an martial artist champion whose body is the own tool. If a wizard or sorcerer wants better tools to work, the psionic wants to improve himself to get the personal perfection.

* How would be the mythic psionics in Kara-Tur or Zakhara? And how to be adapted to a videogame?

* Wouldn't you a psionic class about astral constructs being used as exo-suit, powered-armor or monster pet?

* Other matter is about creatures with telepathic powers being used as demi-PCs, sidekicks or monster pets. A player could ask to can use two PCs if both share a telepathic link.

* Psionic subclasses aren't a bad idea, but we also need a psionic base class, at least because some psionic prestige classes have to be recycled as subclasses.

* I have suggested in the past some partnership between WotC and Dreamscarred to publish some things about psionics power, martial adepts and incarnum/akasha.

* I have said some times Ravenloft will come back, but not only as TTRPG but also with projects for the mass media. (Now my crazy idea is a dark domain in the shadowfell set in the pulp age, where the decepticons, the evil transformers from planet cybertron, are dystopian tyrants. You are talking within your car, or near it but this may be a spy. How would be the masque of the red earth in XX century, with a panzer-punk look like the games Wolfenstein, Tannhauser or Reich Busters?).
 

Parmandur

Book-Friend
I think making the Psion a subclass is fine but I think it should be for the sorc. That handles all of the flavor needs, innate magic, no spell book, get the power right at 1st level instead of “suddenly” becoming Psionic later on, etc.

the subclass could start with letting sorcs use int instead of charisma for spelldcs, and maybe give some free use of the subtle meta magic ability. Then give them access to these new Psionic spells just as divine souls get special access to spells. And your off to the races.

Crawford has pointed this out explicitly, they already did this, in September: the Aberrant Mind is the Psionic Sorcerer, just as the Astral Self is the Psionic Monk, the Orator is the Psionic Bard, etc...
 


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