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I feel like doppelgangers already stole the Gary alien look, and for some reasons through changelings they decided to make them fey instead of aberrations

That's basically the gith. In the new MM the gith are even aberrations. I think one of the few things that are associated with psionics in D&D but aren't available to players... Are tentacles. There are few to no player races that use tentacles, and because of things like Cthulhu and the mind...

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So I decided to smoke a bigass bowl and read all of the previous books the "psion" or "psionicist" has appeared in and I was quite surprised to find out that when the class first appeared it wasn't quite so squishy. Back in AD&D2e, they effectively had light armor proficiency (various kinds of...

I refuse to call the psionic goblins "blues" when the clearly superior name is Mind Goblin

I'm pretty sure Pecos Bill and Betty Crocker got married

I've always assumed the reason we use the word "tall tale" is that Americans have an aversion to thinking of themselves as having "folk culture."

You realize D&D has always done this right? I'm pretty sure we already have multiple flavors of the Russian mob in D&D, I think there's definitely stuff like that in Eberron and Ravnica. And to a lesser degree, kung fu movies were huge in the late 70s so a bunch of dorks made the monk class to...

When I think "Xanth", the first thing that comes to mind aren't the puns, but the pedophilia

The obvious answer is that they use drugs and drug delivery systems like pipes and vaporizers for focuses. A psion just absolutely huffing a volcano bag before casting ego whip

It's recycled art from the 2024 PHB, but I think it was drawn deliberately to throw a bone to Dark Sun fans.

On top of everything else, the art of the dark-skinned guy with white hair using psionic powers to fight gnolls in a desert while holding an obsidian knife always screamed Dark Sun to me.

Can you name a new KISS song from this century? Yet they routinely sell out stadiums and people get buried in branded KISS coffins. There's nothing wrong with playing the hits.

I feel like psionics have the choice of the astral (for 'good dreams') and far realm (for 'bad dreams').

That it's tolerated everywhere but Tyr sounds like a plot hook to me. "Oh, the dragon is flying around and eating all the virgins of the land!" Well yeah buddy you're a hero, slay that naughty word dragon. "Slavery is an intrinsic part of the culture of the Tablelands, it's very nuanced!" "Wow...

If WotC was explicit about all of their influences, what would the faculty of comparative mythology departments have to talk about in their abundant spare time?

The updated Dark Sun campaign setting should be: "John Brown gets isekai'd to Athas after Harper's Ferry, chaos ensues"

Here's another 4e-influenced prediction of mine: The 2024 version of the four elements monk no longer casts spells, and in 4e the monk was a psionic class. Now that they have the psion as a "fullcaster", maybe we'll see a psionic monk gish subclass as a eldritch knight equivalent to the psion's...

Also, another thing that came up; the "crystalline entity" being summoned by the summon astral entity spell makes me think we may see Shardminds as a race/species in whatever splatbook the psion also appears in.