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Because a lot of people want to see it fail for their own self edification.

More like the Armor of Shadows invocation.

Sigh... Maybe by 6th edition, enough people will switch off to D&D clones to allow us to have a psion class...

You'll have to ask the mind goblins

I started with 2e, long after 1e was OOP. I got a lot of my 1e stuff later via bookstore hunting and eBay. To this day I would not play 1e over 2e. I have zero nostalgia for it, and every comparison I can make between the two, 2e either is superior or is a supplement away from fixing. Miss...

Alright! Time to express my undying love (and a few things I want fixed).

Which wasn't what I was arguing. What I was arguing is that a lot of cultures separated reality to the worlds of man (by that, I mean the world as we could perceive it) and the worlds of the Gods (a world that cannot be perceived except by those who have unique skills or knowledge). There are...

There was still a divide between the material world and the spirit world (whatever that looks like to each group). And magic was the work of that spirit realm. Aspirin might be a good example of low magic/alchemy, but seeing the elder for faith medicine was something different.

I mean, most supernatural abilities are essentially forms of magic with different explanations. A shaman going on a spirit journey isn't all that different than a Saint visiting heaven, a witch throwing their spirit, or a psychic astral projecting. They all share enough similarities to use a...

Aye that's the one

I recall 3e had a pyro kinetic prestige class in one of the books that's just begging to be a subclass.

I wouldn't say "science" as much as new age. Most of the well known psionic powers were an attempt to explain eastern mysticism and occultism in scientific language. Extrasensory perception, biofeedback, remote viewing, telepathy, clairsentience were just fancy terms for divination, body...

The 3e psion was squishy because they had the power budget of a wizard. The 2e psionicist was less squishy because: short answer, they were broken, longer answer they weren't sure how powerful they were and the notion of balancing was more vibes than math then. Even 2.5s update (found in Players...

That's still too similar for what I'm describing. I'm thinking more akin to a wizard using Vancian casting, clerics using the channeling mechanism of binders, druids using spell points, sorcerer using incarnum like chakras, Warlocks only having invocations (no spells or slots) like the 3e...

Wrong. AD&D had four caster lists: MU, illusionist, cleric, druid. 1e bards used druid spells, 2e bards used wizard spells, 3e is actually when bards got their own list. The illusionist list got placed with the MU spells in 2e (when illusionist became a wizard with specific schools rather than a...

Absolutely agree. And keeping my own thoughts on pact magic aside (they aren't good) I will say I assume the issues with pact magic is a big reason why psion isn't getting a spell/power point system by default. Simply put, the slot system is a lot more easy to predict potential power level with...

I just recall Jeremy implying in those videos that they weren't happy with how pact magic turned out and they would rather it work like other casters.

True, but I was speaking to the 14 to 24 playtest with the half-caster change. Jeremy hinted they were unsatisfied with pact magic, but the results were overwhelming against the redo so they kept it for 24.

The issue I have with this line of thinking is that psionics gets separated as being distinct mechanics and abilities from magic, but allows nine other classes to use magic the same way with the same spells only using "the fiction" to separate them. Nobody bats an eye that a wizard uses a spell...

I get the impression that WotC feels the warlock was a bit of a mistake, but the attempt to fix it was soundly rejected. So they kept pact magic, but have little interest in replicating it.