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Assumption: UA Psion gets published. Query: What are the best customizable parts? In order to create different types of psions...

I understand it for "monsters" that are using spell "like" abilities. But an NPC wizard should be "casting" spells. But lets not /derail

A terrible, verisimilitude-breaking change IMO.

It was probably more of a necessity back in 2e when no other class got access to the type of healing (well mainly Raise Dead and...

Psionics to me was always a mix of sci-fi, new age practice, occultism, Eastern mysticism and superheroes. I'd be very happy if the...

I don't mind some of the sci-fi elements of psionics. A lot of their names and powers that people find to be pseudo-science lean heavily...

I used to be in the "psionics are different" crowd, at least until I realized that about 42 powers in the Expanded Psionics Handbook are...

Interesting point is they changed this for many spellcasting NPCs, who now have "special abilities" that cant be counterspelled.

Sufficiently fictional abilities are indistinguishable from magic.

In the UA Psion, they did a 'weird mechanic', Psionic Energy Dice, in a way that seems fine, at least tolerable. I think the designers...

I came around to the Psion being a spellcaster because D&D has 500 bespoke mechanical effects locked behind spells. A class that more...

I'd actually prefer it if there is no Shaper. The 3e Metacreativity discipline always felt a bit shoehorned in. In 3.0, each discipline...

I see what you did there. :sneaky:

If you insist on keeping the Weave, you could always just say that Dark Sun being cut off from the rest of the multiverse means the...

With the whole "magic" thing it's important to understand the context that psionics are based on the idea that people are not using...