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I feel like a warrior who had ONLY Maneuvers would need some sort of Cantrip-like mechanism, so he could do interesting things for the whole fight. Perhaps Maneuvers have some basic effect, which you can bump up to a more potent effect by spending an Encounter-limited resource (e.g. Superiority...

You realize that multi-classing exists, right? People get the glut effect even if Psionics are a separate system. I mean, look at the feedback from this playtest: Fighter 11 / Mystic 5 sure looks like it kicks the butt of Fighter 16. Unless you're trying to say that a DM can't exclude a...

Sure. A rogue/warrior with Maneuvers sounds kinda like the 3.5e Swordsage, from the Tome of Battle. That was a really fun class.

3.5e Psionics were very decent. Basically you'd get a slightly weaker, but much more flexible, version of the Sorcerer. The Psicrystal was exactly as forgotten as the typical Wizard's Familiar. It had little to no impact on our games. The Druid dances naked in the woods, while the Bard uses...

Yes, the way it's presented in the UA article is really enforced. It comes out and says it directly in a way that can't be misinterpreted: "Psionics indirectly originates from the Far Realm, (...)". That sort of flavor-enforcement adds nothing, except for the DM's burden of re-education if the...

Hmm. Some good stuff, but lots of bad stuff too. - Concentration. It's an interesting and good idea that a Discipline can have a "free" benefit which only costs Concentration, but it seems very limiting to force all effects into the same pattern. For an example of where this pattern doesn't...

One interesting thing 4e did was show concrete progress. Not in skill DCs, of course, but in monster categories. At PC level 4, an Ogre might be a Solo or an Elite. At PC level 8, an Ogre might be a normal monster. At PC level 12, an Ogre might be a Minion -- you're so awesome, you can drop...

Ritual research was a thing we sometimes did in 4e. Not spells per se, but the same basic idea. That could apply to 5e, too -- or perhaps magic item research, since those might be usable by any arbitrary class.

Ah, gotcha. Somehow I thought you were comparing Rolemaster to AD&D, rather than 4e to AD&D. Well, 1-in-400 is nothing more than rolling a natural 20 twice in a row. There have been optional rules in D&D for special things happening on such occasions, but they aren't usually automatic...

Disciple of the Elements When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn magical disciplines that harness the power of the four elements. A discipline requires you to spend ki points each time you use it. You know the Elemental Attunement discipline and one other elemental discipline of...

Just noting the incongruity here: from a mechanical perspective, in your Rolemaster example, a player rolled dice twice and one-hit-killed a boss monster. You think that's good and that the player "lived that experience". Your second example is a player rolling dice once, and one-hit-killing a...

If you allow the guy who is good at mechanics to do your character's mechanics, then you get many the benefits of munchkindom without needing to be one yourself. (That's how many people handle real-life mechanical issues, too: they pay a mechanic to fix their car, rather than try to do it...

IMHO the big limiting factor is the blindness to any result other than straight-up military victory or defeat. When I run a sandbox, the party's first encounter with an Ogre will not result in a dead Ogre. It may result in a dead PC or two if the players don't even think about escaping from an...

You're free to do your own research. All I was doing was contradicting your assertion, and one counter-example is all that's necessary in order to do so. You're either moving the goalposts from "prove me wrong" (which I did), or you've got a different idea about what we're discussing than I do...

Erudites could mesh Psi and Magic. There's a core Wizard spell which gives you power points and Powers, so the exchange already went one way. You're ignoring a bunch of D&D history. But, here's the thing: even if the published Psionics D&D stuff meshes perfectly well in a mechanical sense...

But the Warlock does. So I hope you're wrong in assuming that the Monk will be the model, rather than... basically any other casting class in the game. Hmm, actually, I bet I can make a Warlock-style casting Elemental Monk which multiclasses better. Thanks for the idea.

Then I hope you're making some kind of a bad assumption about the implementation. The 3.5e multiclass kludge thing was necessary for 3.5e Wizard / Cleric mixing; it's not necessary for 5e Wizard / Cleric mixing. That's what I want. Not needing a kludgestige class. You can dump Warlock...

1/ Every caster in 5e uses 3.5e Psionics scaling. So that's easy. Just have Psions use spell slots with the same table as every other full caster. 2/ Monks, Warlocks and Sorcerers have non-standard resources, which they use to cast or modify spell slots. So it's possible to use non-standard...

Goddamn it, people. You're making me hungry. Now I need to go out and buy a pint of psiscream. - - - Anyway. If there is an official Psionics release, then I want it to be internally coherent. Like, if attack & defense modes are a thing, then I want all Psi sub-classes to interact with them...

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