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You know, I would be okay with that. Psioncs has always had that tradition of using Psionic Strength Points/Power Points. However, my guess is that WotC will want to keep things consistent. A friend of mine uses it in his games.

Agreed. It's interesting to note that the 3.0 Forgotten Realms said no psionics (even after the inclusion of psionics in 2e), but 3.5 did. They even added the College of the Eclipse, a psionic school. Dragonlance traditionally does not have psionics. However, they were introduced to the...

I used to be in the "psionics are different" crowd, at least until I realized that about 42 powers in the Expanded Psionics Handbook are just psionic versions of spells. The idea of simplifying and having one system for manifesting supernatural powers/spells has become appealing to me in 5e...

How did I miss that? The shard swarm ability is straight from the shardmind. Even if the race doesn't come back, I'm glad they live on in one form or another.

Would it be better to make him an earth genasi, a shardmind, or create something different?

Yeah, I'm tired of the idea of psionics being tied to aberrations and the Far Realm. I like the idea of the intelligent Professor X type. I do like that we have both options, though.

Yeah, I posted that in a hurry and didn't look at the obvious watermark. Oops! So you played Crystar? How did that go?

I have considered that. There are plenty of conversions of them out there. They don't exactly look like Crystar and I'm not sure about that. Also that shard swarm ability is not something I have seen Crystar do.

It's funny, because a friend of mine used Crystar in his old game back in 2e and statted him up as a paladin. :) I had considered the idea of Crystalium being a part of the elemental plane of earth or just some land in some other setting. I hadn't considered just making it its own world. :)

Back in the 80s, there was a comic book series called The Saga of Crystar: Crystal Warrior. It lasted for 11 issues and was known for having a toy tie-in. The short version is that in the kingdom of Crystalium was ruled by two princes - Crystar and Moltar. They were given a choice between...

Looks like the video was made private. :(

Part of my backstory is that he was named after a distant ancestor, which may or may not be my friend's character.

Just over 30 years ago, back in my college days, we had a guy join our group named Jim. He was ex-army. He was injured in a training accident. Jim once played an elven mage/thief named Jim the Flim-Flam Man (aka Jim Mann), and once had a monk NPC named Brother Jim. See a pattern? ;) He...

I finally worked up the nerve to ask him, and he's absolutely fine with me using the name. Whew! Also, I love Bester and Psi-Corps. Babylon 5 for the win!

So I edited my first post to clarify. It is NOT the same game nor the same group. Whatever game I would play him in would not have the other player. I am not going to publish anything with this name. Just for use in the privacy of my home games.

Follow-up: What if the DM had an NPC we never saw named Crystar, who was inspired by Crystar from Marvel Comics? Can I create my own if I completely rewrite his stats and story?

When I was in college and first playing D&D (2nd edition), a friend of mine was playing a human psionicist named Kelson Haldane, named after a character in Katherine Kurtz' Deryni series of novels. Kelson was my intro to psionics. The player left the game and his character was said to have left...