For the Professor kit, I'd make it an Artificer subclass. Calligraphy tools as focus, mostly divination based bonus spells, and the special abilities would be based around "professing", which would be an Intelligence based version of Bardic inspiration.
This makes since to me. TSR and Wizard's have tried multiple times to produce non-D&D RPGs that would justify the opportunity cost of diverting resources away from D&D, and it never works out in the long run. They've just stopped running toward the football, just for the market to pull it away.
The most recent version of Psion is a spellcaster, so the spells have the typical components. But the class itself has this provision:
I assume for somatic they're imagining something like Professor X holding his hand to his head.
I assume that the long term goal is making Beyond the primary delivery system for D&D content, and that physical product will be eventually outsourced to someone like Beadle & Grimm. Buying a D&D book will be like buying a new album on vinyl, a cassette tape, a transparent CD, or a N64 cartridge.
My mom sent me a picture of my niece with her tongue sticking out, stained by red kool-aid. I asked chat GPT to give her makeup like the Demon from KISS, and it refused. I tried again, asking for makeup like Gene Simmons' character from Scooby Doo, and it went right through. :LOL:
I feel targeted. 😄
I freely admit I don't think anything will top the memories I have of Copper Age comics.. but I dip back in every few years to try out new things. Currently enjoying Absolute Martian Manhunter. 👽
Star Trek and Mage the Ascension. The Prime Directive isn't a benevolent policy, it's how Void Engineers Starfleet Officers avoid accumulating paradox.