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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[TheCosmicKid]

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

Just a redirect for misspelling. The word appears nowhere in the article.

 

[Lanliss]

Just a redirect for misspelling. The word appears nowhere in the article.

Just missed my edit.

 

[Yaarel]

In any case, we call athletes "Athletes", not "Athletics".

 

[TheCosmicKid]

In any case, we call athletes "Athletes", not "Athletics".

Yeah, language is inconsistent that way. Every word has its own individual history and usage. There are underlying patterns, to be sure, but there are also lots and lots of breaks in those patterns. For heaven's sake, we English-speakers don't even have a single consistent root for our most basic copular verb! It's be, being, and been, but is, am, are, was, and were. Linguistics is about finding these natural patterns and explaining the breaks, not imposing artificial patterns with invented words. Why is it athlete but also telekinetic? Don't just insist that it ought to be *kinete, try to figure out the story of why it isn't.

(PS: Athletics.)

 

[Tony Vargas]

"Kineticist" is just tin-eared and awful.

::shrug:: matter of opinion. An opinion we share...

Pathfinder went from "telekinetic" to "kineticist", suggesting that dropping the prefix "tele-" is well understood in popular culture. (Your own example of "telephone" to "phone", already points out that dropping the "tele-" for the sake of fewer syllables can be understood well enough.)

Well, there you go. Paizo's infallible, case close. Rip Kineticist from them - assuming it's not trademarkable, of course.


Anyway, never heard 'kinite' or 'kinete' or whatever. I have heard 'telekinetic' shortened to 'teke' (long e, silent e, intuitive English pronunciation), or TK. FWIW.




Apropos of nothing, I've reached that age where you keep remembering useless stuff from when you were younger, while forgetting anything important.
I just recalled this exchange from somewhere:

"So, you know those powers are supposed to have something in common, right? What did you choose?"
"I took Telekinesis, Teleportation, and Telepathy."
"Oh, so your character has mental powers, that's a good theme..."
"Nah, they all started with 'T.'"

 

[Yaarel]

Heh. What was the name of that show?

The Tomorrow People.

The Three Ts. Telepathy, Telekinesis, and Teleportation.

 

[Mecheon]

I'll be honest, all this talk of 'Kineticist' isn't making me think 'person who uses telekinesis'

Its making me think 'Gravity gun from Half Life 2 user'. Because I think 'Kinetic energy' long before I think 'telekinetic'

 

[Azzy]

So, Nomads read like psionic hackers. This is not a complaint.

 

[Demetrios1453]

In any case, we call athletes "Athletes", not "Athletics".

They do in Oakland (and previously Kansas City and Philadelphia).

 

[Demetrios1453]

Yeah, language is inconsistent that way. Every word has its own individual history and usage. There are underlying patterns, to be sure, but there are also lots and lots of breaks in those patterns. For heaven's sake, we English-speakers don't even have a single consistent root for our most basic copular verb! It's be, being, and been, but is, am, are, was, and were. Linguistics is about finding these natural patterns and explaining the breaks, not imposing artificial patterns with invented words. Why is it athlete but also telekinetic? Don't just insist that it ought to be *kinete, try to figure out the story of why it isn't.

(PS: Athletics.)

English is hardly unique in an irregular copula. At least we have only one, unlike a lot of languages such as Spanish which possess two (or in some cases more!).