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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 7710495" data-attributes="member: 6563">I have many thoughts on the new mystic, but I’ve reached a point of contention that’s causes me some consternation.I'm curious as to why the wu jen is being stuffed into the psionic class—it's pretty out of nowhere and no basis in the game's history. In fact, "wu jen" literally means "magic person" and was a term coined for the 1e OA, and loosely inspired by Taoist wizards in Chinese folklore. Magic. Not psionics.In 1e OA, the wu jen was essentially the 1e magic user, with a different spell list (divided up between the five Chinese elements), the ability to add +3 to his initiative roll once per day, the ability to cast a lower-level spell (must be three or more levels less than the wu jen's level) at maximum effect once per day, and the ability to gain mastery of the elements (if you know all the spells of a level you’re capable of casting of an element, your spells of that element are −1 harder to save against and do +1 damage, and you gain a +1 to saves against spells of that element).Why they didn’t make the wu jen a wizard subclass stupefies me. This psychic wu jen is hardly even similar thematically or ability-wise to the former class—it’s like randomly taking a name and applying it to something unrelated. This discontinuity affects the published setting of Kara Tur as it requires PCs and NPCs to be altered to fit the change. At this point, it would be better not to have a 5e wu jen at all (and make previous wu jen characters simply wizards) rather than shoehorn it into an unrelated class. Still, if there’s serious intent to bring the wu jen to 5e, just make it a wizard archetype, and convert some (read: all) of the old wu jen spells.</blockquote>

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