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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7967318" data-attributes="member: 5142">Except that quote is not actually what the OP said or even a good paraphrasing of it: I removed the bold so it was less of an eyesore, but here Sword of Spirit states what is a noncontroversial fact that a dedicated psionic character class has been in the game since 2e. But they then say that the class should exist for the purpose of representing an "ongoing feature" (i.e., psionics) that is part of D&D's meta-setting. So it's not necessarily only that psionics appeared in every edition, but also the degree that they did and the degree of their imprint on D&D's legacy. I'm not sure, for example, that a shaman really is part of D&D's meta-setting wherein it hews its own sort of supernatural powers/magic. Probably the closest that the shaman came to that was actually in 4e, where the Shaman represents a leader class for the primal spirits that played a mythic role in the cessation of the Dawn War. Likewise, psionics featured in the meta-setting of the World Axis setting, with psionics being regarded almost like the universe's response to fighting the Far Realm.</blockquote>