Unearthed Arcana 5E Psionics Alert! The Mystic Is Back In Unearthed Arcana

It's back! The long-awaited new version of the mystic - 5th Edition's psionic class - is here. "The mystic class, a master of psionics, has arrived in its entirety for you to try in your D&D games. Thanks to your playtest feedback on the class’s previous two versions, the class now goes to level 20, has six subclasses, and can choose from many new psionic disciplines and talents. Explore the material here—there’s a lot of it—and let us know what you think in the survey we release in the next installment of Unearthed Arcana." Click the image below for the full 28-page PDF!

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[Yaarel]

Heh. I agree.

"Kineticist" is just tin-eared and awful.

Regarding ...

Would you call someone a "romant" or a "diabete"? No, because those aren't the words for those traits.

Etymologically, a person who is "Romantic" is a like a "Roman". For what it is worth. (In the sense of translating into French, a story that was originally in Roman Vulgar Latin, called "Romant".)

Diabetes and Diabete would mean the same thing, where the medical term retains Greek final -s.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

Heh. Kinete. I got used to it. It is a close rhyme with Synthete.

Which is also not a word.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

Etymologically, a person who is "Romantic" is a like a "Roman". For what it is worth.

It isn't worth anything. Calling someone a "Roman" means something different than calling them a "romantic".

Diabetes and Diabete would mean the same thing, where the medical term retains Greek final -s.

Except that one is a standard English word, and the other isn't.

 

[Yaarel]

A synthete is a person who experiences synthesia.

Synthesia is a variant form synesthesia or synaesthesia.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

A synthete is a person who experiences synthesia.

"Synesthesia".

 

[Yaarel]

Yeah, I was just clarifying that.

The proper term is Synaesthesia, whence synaesthete, synesthete, and synthete.

 

[cbwjm]

As a diabetic currently having a low blood sugar while waiting for some food in a Wendy's. Man, would that be a terrible class.

 

[Yaarel]

Somewhat humorously.

The word "diabetes" literally means "a person that goes wide", a euphemism for someone that suffers excessive urination. But the medical term specified a specific kind of diabetes, and extended to include other kinds.

 

[TheCosmicKid]

Yeah, I was just clarifying that.

The proper term is Synaesthesia, whence synaesthete, synesthete, and synthete.

No, there is no such thing as "synthesia" or a "synthete". The words do not appear in any medical or general-use dictionary (although there is apparently a video game). You are sticking a word you have made up at the end of a list of real words in the hope it can ride on their coattails. It can't.

 

[Lanliss]

No, there is no such thing as "synthesia" or a "synthete". The words do not appear in any medical or general-use dictionary (although there is apparently a video game). You are sticking a word you have made up at the end of a list of real words in the hope it can ride on their coattails. It can't.

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Synthesia

They appear to be the same thing, but slightly different spellings? idk, that is just what came up.