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I know the vast amount of my objections were to the spellcasting aspect of the psion, which I can't see them backtracking on now because...

Personally I'm just excited for the prospect of actually fitting psionics within the world of Eberron again.

https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/the-psion/mXCPWlh2yy5tBKqP/UA2025-ThePsion.pdf

Yeah. I don't mind them using existing spells. My big issue was with the idea that the sorcerer should just be refluffed. The...

Mmm. I find the “Everything’s a spell” approach in 5e to be irksome occasionally. It would’ve been nice if they’d kept 3e’s “spell-like...

The problem is that "magic" now means "spellcasting" 90% or more of the time. And "spellcasting" is much more confining, as a system...

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

That seems to be the 5e24 approach as well!

I miss psicrystals.

I mean, realistically I feel this statement is true for about every class and monster in D&D, heck any RPG I've ever seen. I don't think...

You realize D&D has always done this right? I'm pretty sure we already have multiple flavors of the Russian mob in D&D, I think there's...

In 2E, psionics were a middle step between martial and caster. Psionics were weaker and had less variety than magic, because they were...

Agree to disagree. That period of complexity and novelty was the high point of the 3e era to me.

I don't mind them, but not as they are in the PHB. I'll probably end up changing them to some sort of focusing crystal that you need to...

I mean it's fine. It's yet another spellcaster, for folks who want such things. More of Mind Mage than a psion. This doesn't hit the...