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<blockquote data-quote="Cyan Wisp" data-source="post: 6621876" data-attributes="member: 38623">Honestly, I think d20 psionics was just magic refluffed. What is so unique about it that it can't be folded into the existing spell system?When I think of examples of the psychically endowed in film and literature (I'm going off the top of my head right now)...Firestarter: pyrokineticistFirestarter's dad: mental controlHarry Keogh: medium, mathemancyThose people from Minority Report or guy from Dead Zone: seersBran Stark: wargCharles Xavier: telepathThat guy from Species: empathCarrie: telekinesis...they seem to be one-trick ponies. You hear about mediums, not &quot;mediums who also blow crap up, fly, augment body parts and go nuts at the prom covered in pig blood.&quot;With this in mind, I'd rather see a return to 1e psionics where you had a talent or two and that's it. Maybe done through Feats (kind of like Magic Initiate). That, or if we must have &quot;wizard in funny clothes&quot; Psion, do it as a Sorcerous Origin (perhaps in the style of the new Unearthed Arcana bonus themed spells sorcerers) with abilities related to reduced components and signature spells (like telekinesis).My opinionated 2 cents. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cyan Wisp, post: 6621876, member: 38623"] Honestly, I think d20 psionics was just magic refluffed. What is so unique about it that it can't be folded into the existing spell system? When I think of examples of the psychically endowed in film and literature (I'm going off the top of my head right now)... Firestarter: pyrokineticist Firestarter's dad: mental control Harry Keogh: medium, mathemancy Those people from Minority Report or guy from Dead Zone: seers Bran Stark: warg Charles Xavier: telepath That guy from Species: empath Carrie: telekinesis ...they seem to be one-trick ponies. You hear about mediums, not "mediums who also blow crap up, fly, augment body parts and go nuts at the prom covered in pig blood." With this in mind, I'd rather see a return to 1e psionics where you had a talent or two and that's it. Maybe done through Feats (kind of like Magic Initiate). That, or if we must have "wizard in funny clothes" Psion, do it as a Sorcerous Origin (perhaps in the style of the new Unearthed Arcana bonus themed spells sorcerers) with abilities related to reduced components and signature spells (like telekinesis). My opinionated 2 cents. ;) [/QUOTE]

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