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<blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9043757" data-attributes="member: 87792">One of my favourite things about 5e paladins is how few spells they in practice cast. I'd probably rather it was even fewer, but draining their magical energy into Smites does a lot of this.But I'm curious how you'd handle Psions given that D&amp;D psionics has always either been ridiculous (the rock paper scissors psionic attacks/defences of 1e) or spells with the serial numbers filed off. One of the reasons the Aberrant Mind is far my favourite iteration of the psion is because it's no more a spellcaster than any of the others - but it doesn't have dozens of pages of complexity (custom psionic spells) and pretense at simplicity that's now basically core (spell points) to bring the character concept into play. 5e &quot;Vancian&quot; casting as used by wizards is more like 3.5 Psionics than classic Gygaxo-Vancian.That said I'd far rather a GURPS psionic character who gets to Just Do Stuff - TK has set limits and so does Telepathy but there's no slot or serious fatigue system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Neonchameleon, post: 9043757, member: 87792"] One of my favourite things about 5e paladins is how few spells they [I]in practice[/I] cast. I'd probably rather it was even fewer, but draining their magical energy into Smites does a lot of this. But I'm curious how you'd handle Psions given that D&D psionics has always either been ridiculous (the rock paper scissors psionic attacks/defences of 1e) or spells with the serial numbers filed off. One of the reasons the Aberrant Mind is far my favourite iteration of the psion is because it's no more a spellcaster than any of the others - but it doesn't have dozens of pages of complexity (custom psionic spells) and pretense at simplicity that's now basically core (spell points) to bring the character concept into play. 5e "Vancian" casting as used by wizards is more like 3.5 Psionics than classic Gygaxo-Vancian. That said I'd far rather a GURPS psionic character who gets to Just Do Stuff - TK has set limits and so does Telepathy but there's no slot or serious fatigue system. [/QUOTE]

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