D&D (2024) Githzerai Psion? Thri-kreen Psion? Where's My Psion?

[Corinnguard]

Already made my Level Up version. It's a heritage gift.

The Blue also happen to be a heritage gift for the Goblinoid heritage in the Manual of Adventurous Resources: Complete. Here the gift is called Azure Mind.

Azure Mind

You come from a line of goblins called "the blue," which are known for their psionic powers. You gain the following benefits:

Blue Psionics. You know the mage hand cantrip, and when you cast it, the hand is invisible, replaced by a faint blue aura. You can use this trait once between long rests to cast one spell, chosen from Charm Person, mage armor, or arcane riposte, dealing psychic damage. Your spellcasting ability for these is your choice of Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma.

Since this gift is for MoAR: Complete's goblinoid heritage, it can be picked up those of the Hobgoblin or Bugbear lineages as well. Hmm...a blue-furred Bugbear named Hank McCoy.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

It is not only to design a class but also a complete and different list of powers. That is a lot of work for design. And they know to sell a second sourcebook about psionic powers is more difficult.

They have chosen to "cancell" Dark Sun but if they want to publish a spiritual succesor then they will have to choose if to add "empty space" for future classes with special game mechanics, for example the martial adepts, maybe a spin-off of a previous setting.

* OK, let's remember the 3.5 psionic powers had got "display", then it was not easy to use them among the people without to be discovered

* If WotC doesn't publish an update psionic class, then this will be by some 3PP.

* We have got still the option of a new setting mixing Gamma World and Dark Sun. It wouldn't be our future real world but a fictional wildspace with magitek.

* I imagine the sha'ir (from al-Qadim) like the D&D summoner/invoker.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

This is the point I keep getting at. Why would they like it? In particular, why would WotCs core demographic - teens - like it? What does it have that makes it cool and interesting?

Are you familiar with a certain Dr. Charles Xavier?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Are you familiar with a certain Dr. Charles Xavier?

The 1960s comic book character?

 

[Corinnguard]

The 1960s comic book character?

Who has been around for 60 years and has aged well?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Who has been around for 60 years and has aged well?

1) I don’t think the word “psionics” is used in any of the movies. People really need to get out of their bubble and stop assuming the connection is obvious.

2) There hasn’t been a popular X-Men film for 22 years. I don’t think there is much evidence for “aged well”.

 

[Corinnguard]

1) I don’t think the word “psionics” is used in any of the movies. People really need to get out of their bubble and stop assuming the connection is obvious.

2) There hasn’t been a popular X-Men film for 22 years. I don’t think there is much evidence for “aged well”.

So? Maybe it's because they're counting on some members of the audience to recognize psionics when they see it.

As for the 'aged well' part, I was referring to the fact that most Marvel and DC comic book characters from the 60's haven't appeared to have aged much. I do have to agree with you about the X-Men movies not aging well. Especially when it comes to what they are seen wearing each movie.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

1) I don’t think the word “psionics” is used in any of the movies. People really need to get out of their bubble and stop assuming the connection is obvious.

Doesn't have to be. "What he's doing? That's what D&D calls 'psionics.'"

Perhaps you need to get out of your bubble and stop assuming that the connection is completely impossible for anyone to make unless it's letter-by-letter exact?

2) There hasn’t been a popular X-Men film for 22 years. I don’t think there is much evidence for “aged well”.

Oh, sure. If you exclude First Class, Days of Future Past, and Apocalypse, all of which performed just fine in the box office (earning double or more the cost to make them), and both FC and DoFP were rated quite well by audiences and critics alike (86% and 90% respectively).

X-Men: First Class was 2011, Days of Future Past was three years later. Again: throwing around accusations of being in a "bubble" is a bit much when making statements like this that are demonstrably false. Further, in the wider X-Men-related cinema stuff, you have the two Deadpool movies which were both very well-received by audiences, and the Wolverine-centric films, of which the most recent, Logan, released in 2017, more than quadrupled its budget, and has a 93% audience review score. And which did, in fact, feature the exact same Dr. Charles Xavier that appeared in 2000's X-Men, Patrick Stewart.

So yeah. I think this is a perfectly adequate shorthand introduction, and I tire of playing a game where the goalposts are becoming relativistic.

 

[Corinnguard]

The word psionics has been around since the 1960's, long enough for it to have to permeated American culture if not beyond.

 

[Staffan]

X-Men: First Class was 2011, Days of Future Past was three years later. Again: throwing around accusations of being in a "bubble" is a bit much when making statements like this that are demonstrably false. Further, in the wider X-Men-related cinema stuff, you have the two Deadpool movies which were both very well-received by audiences, and the Wolverine-centric films, of which the most recent, Logan, released in 2017, more than quadrupled its budget, and has a 93% audience review score. And which did, in fact, feature the exact same Dr. Charles Xavier that appeared in 2000's X-Men, Patrick Stewart.

Not to mention that Chuck was in Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and his evil twin(ish) was the main villain in Deadpool & Wolverine.