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My vision says that 5e has comfortably the best psionics D&D has ever had because there is no One True Way to be psychic any more than there is to use magic. And that psionics are frequently but not always Space Magic. That the Soulknife is a great low level telepath for a psychic spy - and...

I'm going to disagree in large part here and say that if they were to actually try (they haven't) the tier 1 and 2 5e fighter, with a little work, could be about as good a replacement for the warlord as it is for the 4e fighter. The first thing you need to do, of course, is to take the fighting...

Which speculations? That 5e is the most popular version of D&D in history? That the sorcerer is a reasonably popular class, making up just under 1/12 of all classes played? That Tasha's sold pretty well and has a much higher attach rate than the various psionic books in less popular editions...

When I have a monster manual my primary question is whether I can use it in play when the player characters do something odd and I'm improvising (or when I'm improvising just because). And this influences how I assess the stat blocks; I'm more interested in how they work in play than how well...

Critical Role. The cast are, I believe, all elder millennials. I don't think there's a problem appealing to Millennials right now.

And none of those do things the same way. WotC isn't homebrewing. This is people at home. The Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, the GOOlock, the Soulknife, and the Psi Warrior are official psionic options for the forseeable future. That said TSR and WotC have historically been more than willing to...

And this desire is only emphasised by Dex being the God-stat in 5e.

Nah. It's off the table because the Aberrant Mind is almost certainly the most played version of the psion in D&D history by a comfortable margin (both being in the most popular version of D&D and in something much closer to the core rather than a psionics specific splatbook, and being far the...

Most of them overwhelm by force of personality not doing complex math.

Yes. However that augmenting mechanic is a part of the thing that has now become core to all spellcasters. If you look at 5e spells they often have an at higher levels entry - which is basically the old augmenting mechanic where you can cast a spell with the cost for a higher level spell for...

Charisma is the mental force stat. It should be the first choice. There are people who use Psion as a placeholder class and people who use Psion to refer to the 3.5 (and 2e; no one mentions 3.0) class. Sides are rarely unified.

Which is precisely what the Aberrant Mind does. And I mean precisely. It starts with the sorcerer chassis, gives them spell points which they can drop their slots in, tailors their list to psychic spells, and gives them a no-component variant in casting them. The Aberrant Mind completely nails...

There are two separate things here and I for one am only objecting to one of them: A new psychic base class A Psion I have never said that a new psychic base class is a bad idea in and of itself a bad idea. It's when people start saying they want a Psion that I object because the Psion is...

Firstly did you ever work out how the Psion got 343 power points? Because I did. They turned the number of spells a wizard would have from slots into points and got to 343. But what this means in practice is that the psion gets to go full spam while still juggling however many psychic spells...

And Aberrant Minds cast psionic spells. The psion (whether 2e, 3.0, or 3.5, so 33 years not 40) looked like a wizard, talked like a wizard, had hit points and spell slots like a wizard, and wore armour and used weapons like a wizard. And cast spells almost entirely like a wizard ... other than...

Hear hear. I absolutely support high power psychics being able to do all that. But when we have tried to define psychic spells we've ended up with such abominations as "Moment of Prescience, Psionic" (and I think I've used a different one of these pieces of nonsense in each comment and...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke I'd here say that this is something on which reasonable people can disagree. And that I certainly see magic as an overarching category covering the inexplicable. And there's a reason psionics are sometimes...

And I absolutely do not want a psionic base class. I'll take three (as long as we do better than either the 3.5 Wilder or the 3.5 Soulknife for the second and third) but I consider zero to be a huge improvement over one. This is because when you only have one class that uses a power source you...

Oh it did. I'm just finding your outrage ridiculous and to fly in the face of the themes of both bards and psionics, which overlap a lot especially if you don't somehow tie bards to music. "Just an evolutionary line of the same thing" in the same way that wolves and labradors are the same...

Is it? Sorcerers don't. Sorcerers can be all about internal power. The thing is that they have them and something is different from most people. As an Aberrant Mind sorcerer, you decide how you acquired your powers. Were you born with them? Or did an event later in life leave you shining with...