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0ccluded Mind seems to seems over-powered. "Your ally is actually your arch-enemy" ... more powerful than charm. Only one save instead of the target getting one every round. Lasts five minutes. Two enemies negated. All for two psi points.

Consumptive power seems weak, and it comes at a steep price that seems obscene, but I kind of understand it. Maybe lower your hit points to 1 to gain psi points equal to your psi limit. If the mystic is still at 1 hit point at the beginning of his next turn, he drops to 0. Thematically this...

If you can exceed the psi limit per round you are actually more powerful than a full caster. You are essentially casting multiple spell equivalent powers per round.

Unarmed strikes are melee weapon attacks. Lethal strike with monk flurry of blows is broken if you can nova your points all in one round. Psi limit needs to be per round.

Then lethal strike breaks the system. It's front loaded and is ripe for a multiclass dip with classes that grant multi-attack early. Psi limit needs to be per turn not per discipline use. It is essentially allowing you to multi-cast per turn which is something the designers have been against...

I assume the psi limit is per turn.

I should have caught that. 130 ft with no opportunity attacks at first level is still impressive, but not necessarily broken.

I can easily ignore it, but I don't mind the Far Realms being one of the ways one acquires psionic powers. I agree that it shouldn't be the only source. I like having psionics draped with a little pseudo-science jargon, but the mystic is also a reasonable skin for a practitioner of mental powers.

How fast could a wood elf rogue, mystic move with cunning action, light step, surge of speed move? 2 Psi points seems a tiny price to pay for that much movement with no opportunity attacks. Am I wrong?

I wouldn't hold my breath. Planescape maybe. They want to establish Forgotten Realms as the world of D&D. Ravenloft and Planscape fit into the cosmology and can be easily accessed from the Realms, but the introduction of new campaign settings like Eberron and Dark Sun is problematic from a...

I think that there is enough reverence for Greenwood that anything he produces will be considered canon. Even if it deviates from published materials, I think WotC will do their best to fit it in or explain the discrepancies away. There might even be an agreement to physically publish the...

I think we will see a young version of Lor San Tekka in the Rogue One movie played by Mads Mikkelsen.

I agree. Ravenloft is the easiest of the settings to incorporate since it is a demiplane and can capture players who normally dwell in the Realms. For purposes of the IP they want the Realms to be synonymous with D&D. Ravenloft is easier to incorporate since it is an off-shoot that dwells within...

Sure Ford produces 10 of these cars a year. That's not practical for WotC. They could produce what you want, but it would be either so expensive that you wouldn't buy it or priced so low that they wouldn't make a profit. Ford gets away with making the GT because they can write it off to...

You are right about consolidating the IP. They do want to associate the Realms and their iconic characters with D&D for the long term strategy beyond just the table top game.

You might not like the Ford Taurus as much as you like the Ford GT, but Ford is going to focus their energy on producing thousands of units of Tauruses because that is what they can sell a ton of and make a profit on.

This is the truth. As much as I would like every D&D setting to be detailed with a book as beautiful and well crafted as 3.5 Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting Book, I understand that it would be a bad business decision. It would be like telling Ford to mass produce the Ford GT Supercar even...

The people who run D&D are coming from the same place we are. I feel that there is still a lot of love for these different settings among the team. We might get glimpses of them in the coming years but only as they interact with the Forgotten Realms. The realities of business necessitate that...

That's the point. They want the D&D brand to be synonymous with the people and places of the Forgotten Realms. Marvel would be nothing without it's iconic superheroes. They want people who have some brand awareness of D&D to explore the "world of D&D" which, for good or bad, right now is...

I wouldn't be surprised if the new material isn't connected to Forgotten Realms in some way. You can start someone in Forgotten Realms and get them to Ravenloft. You can have an Airship from Eberron crash in the Realms. I do think that Greyhawk is to generically D&D to justify an entire book...