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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8290224" data-attributes="member: 6796468">I might agree with you, [USER=18]@Ruin Explorer[/USER], but the designers have gone out of their way to express that Psionics and Magic are separate in the UA. Maybe it didn't get added into Tasha's because they're discarding the idea, certainly. But it could also be that such a sidebar would be better suited to a segment of a more focused book.That said: Yeah. We're probably not getting a Psionics Handbook. This thread isn't about that question, however, it's about what such a book would, could, or should, look like.If Psionics hits D&amp;D it's far more likely to be in a campaign setting book for Dark Sun (The Wanderer's Guide to Athas, perhaps?) as a core class with some abilities and then any form of Structured Psionic Powers would just be &quot;Here's a list of Spells that you Manifest as Powers instead of Casting them&quot;.But if it -were- it's own book, which this thread makes the assumption of in the first sentence... what would it look like?How about Artwork?Should it have 3e's obsession with slathering Crystals all over every weapon, armor, and character? Or should it look more like Pathfinder's take on different ideas of Mysticism and Spirituality? Or should it not have an explicit, specific, look... and just look like an Adventurer who delves dungeons like everyone else but also gets mind powers?Edit Though... there is the Dragon UA to consider. Is there going to be a specific &quot;Dragons&quot; book that looks more like 3e WotC content or is that just a whole bunch of stuff meant to be spread across a bunch of different books thrown into one UA for ease of similarity?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8290224, member: 6796468"] I might agree with you, [USER=18]@Ruin Explorer[/USER], but the designers have gone out of their way to express that Psionics and Magic are separate in the UA. Maybe it didn't get added into Tasha's because they're discarding the idea, certainly. But it could also be that such a sidebar would be better suited to a segment of a more focused book. That said: Yeah. We're probably not getting a Psionics Handbook. This thread isn't about that question, however, it's about what such a book would, could, or should, look like. If Psionics hits D&D it's far more likely to be in a campaign setting book for Dark Sun (The Wanderer's Guide to Athas, perhaps?) as a core class with some abilities and then any form of Structured Psionic Powers would just be "Here's a list of Spells that you Manifest as Powers instead of Casting them". But if it -were- it's own book, which this thread makes the assumption of in the first sentence... what would it look like? How about Artwork? Should it have 3e's obsession with slathering Crystals all over every weapon, armor, and character? Or should it look more like Pathfinder's take on different ideas of Mysticism and Spirituality? Or should it not have an explicit, specific, look... and just look like an Adventurer who delves dungeons like everyone else but also gets mind powers? [I]Edit[/I] Though... there is the Dragon UA to consider. Is there going to be a specific "Dragons" book that looks more like 3e WotC content or is that just a whole bunch of stuff meant to be spread across a bunch of different books thrown into one UA for ease of similarity? [/QUOTE]

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