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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 9670224" data-attributes="member: 2629">I would rather see something distinctly different than a spell-slot spellcaster.&nbsp; A class should fill a separate niche than other classes, and I feel like this one could be significantly more distinct from the wizard and sorcerer.&nbsp; In my homebrew (spelled out here: <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/5e-psion-thread.712242/page-8#post-9609221" target="_blank">D&amp;D 5E - 5e Psion+++++thread</a>, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/what%E2%80%99s-the-big-deal-about-psionics.686340/#post-8557665" target="_blank">D&amp;D General - What’s The Big Deal About Psionics?</a>) there are power points, psionic defenses and offenses, psionics is separate from magic, and they evoke the feel of super heroes like Jean Grey, but also like Johnny Storm, Nightcrawler, and Hal Jordan.&nbsp; They generally have a limited suite of things they can do, but the things they can do are versatile.&nbsp; For example, like Johnny Storm you might do fire powers, but you can make a lot of things with them, use them to make you fly, just do energy blasts with them, create walls of fire, etc...&nbsp; They also allow you to push 'beyond your limits' to get a nova style effect, but doing so can be dangerous.&nbsp; For example, you could throw caution to the wind and use a very high number of Power Points to up the intensity of a psychic attack to a very high level, but you risk hurting yourself, hurting others nearby, or limiting your ability to regain Power points for a time.&nbsp; Essentially, when I think of classes, I like to think of the archetypical example of the class.&nbsp; They listed examples in older PHBs of characters that evoked the classes.&nbsp; For me, the Psion (and Psychic Warriors) were all Super Heroes and Force Users.&nbsp; I wish these characters felt like that instead of being an assembly of a very wide suite of different abilities without thematic ties.&nbsp; Wizards should have a broad range of abilities - Psions should be tied thematically.&nbsp; However, that design would likely require a lot more than a few pages in a book - it would likely allow a few pages per different power suite to be evoked ... the dozens I have are almost all in shorthand and the class document is nearly 70 pages.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 9670224, member: 2629"] I would rather see something distinctly different than a spell-slot spellcaster. A class should fill a separate niche than other classes, and I feel like this one could be significantly more distinct from the wizard and sorcerer. In my homebrew (spelled out here: [URL="https://www.enworld.org/threads/5e-psion-thread.712242/page-8#post-9609221"]D&D 5E - 5e Psion+++++thread[/URL], [URL="https://www.enworld.org/threads/what%E2%80%99s-the-big-deal-about-psionics.686340/#post-8557665"]D&D General - What’s The Big Deal About Psionics?[/URL]) there are power points, psionic defenses and offenses, psionics is separate from magic, and they evoke the feel of super heroes like Jean Grey, but also like Johnny Storm, Nightcrawler, and Hal Jordan. They generally have a limited suite of things they can do, but the things they can do are versatile. For example, like Johnny Storm you might do fire powers, but you can make a lot of things with them, use them to make you fly, just do energy blasts with them, create walls of fire, etc... They also allow you to push 'beyond your limits' to get a nova style effect, but doing so can be dangerous. For example, you could throw caution to the wind and use a very high number of Power Points to up the intensity of a psychic attack to a very high level, but you risk hurting yourself, hurting others nearby, or limiting your ability to regain Power points for a time. Essentially, when I think of classes, I like to think of the archetypical example of the class. They listed examples in older PHBs of characters that evoked the classes. For me, the Psion (and Psychic Warriors) were all Super Heroes and Force Users. I wish these characters felt like that instead of being an assembly of a very wide suite of different abilities without thematic ties. Wizards should have a broad range of abilities - Psions should be tied thematically. However, that design would likely require a lot more than a few pages in a book - it would likely allow a few pages per different power suite to be evoked ... the dozens I have are almost all in shorthand and the class document is nearly 70 pages. [/QUOTE]

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