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No, it gets Wisdom, and then the Strength of Mind feature means you get to choose your other ST after any short or long rest.

Full article is now up. Much more robust...

I like it! I am a little confused though: when do you gain access to a discipline? I know there are three available, but it doesn't say if you gain access to one at 1st level, or at 3rd, or if you only ever get access to more than one(which I expect you do). Also, what's the class name again...

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Of course UA psionics won't be the "official" psionic rules, but they're obviously going to be playtested in in UA (and presumably closed playtests as well) before any official psionic rules get released. And whatever official psionics looks like, I'd say it's a 98% chance that they'll be...

Maybe I was a bit hyperbolic, but the main reason is "why bother?" If a power is just going to recreate a spell, just call it the spell. I'd be more on board with a "see spell in phb" than Id Attacker: See Phantasmal Killer (phb pg. xxx). Talk about adding complexity and confusion... Yeah...

I like most of this well enough, especially the "simple" subclass solution included for those that prefer it (though Remalthis is right that it should be a UA article or free download as well since nobody wants to pay $50 for just that). Now I think you could get it even shorter, not by having...

They can function as the face; I never said they couldn't, but they shouldn't default to that. I knew that some folks would insist Spock had high CHA, which is why I even mentioned that in my post. Force of personality in some instances, sure, but Spock is not a guy that doesn't rub...

A full psion should be more Professor X than Luke Skywalker. Save Jedi for the subclass equivalent to Eldritch Knight, I agree.

Intelligence works well enough for me for that cold, calculating alien type... sometimes with pointy ears, melding minds... But I have scifi bleeding into my fantasy!! You could argue someone of the scifi trope I'm referring to also has an overwhelming Charisma, but I don't see it. A psion...

the main concern, is don't build it broken, as 2e could be. But that's a no brainer

I'd say sure, we can have both, but your argument seems to be that we go with only the one simple sorcerer subclass like Remalthis detailed and leave it at that. If you're saying to try it both ways, then my apologies. No need it need be as complicated as the 2e psionicist handbook since 5e is...

It keeps getting said over and over again "I think think people play psionics for this reason and the rest is moot" as if that's a reason to go the easy route and do the minimum work for this perceived anecdotal "majority." What I want may or may not be part of the minority, but I think that if...

The longer this thread goes on, the more pointless it becomes to me to argue whether psionics is magic or not. The only meaty distinction to make is whether or not "Psionics is different." The alternate rule in 3e kinda forced that phrase into meaning "psionics is different than magic" but it...

Well, to be fair, the monk agelessness was mentioned as a magical effect previously, but I think that kind of slipped by because no one thought to make the argument. Nothing in the PHB actually calls that out as magic. All the text says is that "your Ki sustains you." Now it is true that the...

Oh, it's total semantics, but the point is that for some of us "indistinguishable from magic" in the game's sense does not mean the same thing as "magic." I know it's frustrating for some that I must have a different definition of "magic" that to most people is indistinguishable from it, but...

Not sure where one assumption leads to the other. Gods could also provide a way to tap into psionics or other sources or whatnot, but that hasn't ever been a default setting assumption for anything in D&D. Same way, you don't have to have Divine and Arcane magic interact in your setting...

Everyone keeps making the anecdotal argument "IME people really only want psionics to game the mechanics" but in my personal experience, what I want has a lot more to do with the fluff. I just want the fluff to match the mechanics well enough, and psionics as a magic class doesn't do that for...

Easier sure, but is it a heck of a lot better? Especially for those who want the option of psionics being different? Why not take a crack at making a new system that still fits in with the guidelines of not overly complicating things, and that interacts well with existing mechanics? Is it...

I'd agree that keeping things accessible is an absolute requirement, but familiar isn't as important to me, especially if the only way to be familiar is to completely mimic similar spells. I also agree that there should be a certain amount of interaction with magic, just so you don't break...