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D&D also has to contend with video games now as some place where new players have their fantasy expectations from, and in many video games even the warrior types have "spells" (like a ground slam shockwave attack).

I liked the ideas that Bruce Cordell had, the only person at WotC who was really into psionics. Based on what 3.5e psionics got, the answer is basically "All of the above". The Far Realms, Victorian influenced New Agey stuff with crystals and ectoplasm, along with Buddhist (Tibetan Tulpas aka...

Or reskinning for players who want to play a Technomancer where "I load an unstable fire element bullet into my experimental multi-pistol" is simply casting Fireball as a spell, even though the Artificer covers Technomancy too.

I think the Psionic subclasses will prepare the way for a Psion class eventually. There's a given "don't make completely new mechanics" for psionic powers now in place, because there's psionic subclasses of casters like Warlocks and Sorcerers that just use spells. Then it opens the way for a...

I think it's better that the Psionic Sorcerer subclass is aberrant themed (3e had Illithid bloodline feats, so there's precedence), not only because it was more interesting than them being a generic psion replacement, but because I don't think the entire weight of psionics should be carried by a...

When they proposed to change it to the psionic soul back in some UA before it appeared in Tasha's, I rejected it because I felt it was really boring compared to Aberrant Mind. In fact most people admitted that they felt psionic soul was really boring compared to Aberrant Mind, so they went back...

Well, a Soulknife could be a better Assassin than an Assassin, based on the fact they don't need to carry around any weapons.

Tieflings in the UA were vaguely tied to Devils (Infernal), Demons (Abyssal) or Yugoloths (Chthonic). And I think they even suggested that some Chthonic Tieflings might be descendants of Succubi or Night Hags. No direct mention of Rakshasa or Demodands/Gehreleths, but they do suggest that...

There's a bunch of classes from the 2014 PHB that are leftover too, like the Tempest Cleric and the Necromancer Wizard.

It probably is, as we haven't had an instance where a PHB 2014 subclass has been replaced by one from Tasha's or Xanathar's. But if there was one that could be, then it might be the Assassin I guess.

-They mention Melf been depicted, casting Melf's Acid Arrow, but no mention of there being a depiction Evard casting Evard's Black Tentacles which would be something I'd be interested in seeing. -Psi Warrior and Soulknife (did it replace the Swashbuckler from the UA?) being in the PHB, along...

That isn't Gamma World?

If you're 80+ years old but really powerful in magic, including some mastery over your own body, wouldn't you want to look like a 20 year old?

Not only is there the Werefox, there's the Hu Hsien (archaic Wade-Giles spelling of what would be Hu Xian in Pinyin) from the Kara-Tur Monstrous Compendium that's close to the mythological version of Fox Spirit, though mostly the Chinese version (Korean and Japanese folklore also have similar...

Kas looks like Nandor the Relentless (aka Nandor De Laurentiis) in one of those pictures...