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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6669543" data-attributes="member: 57383">Yes, but "otherworldly cabalist that deals in the mysteries of the universe" could apply just as well to an arcane or divine spellcaster. To me, it reads more as a rather scholarly wizard than a psionicist.There are a couple of other problems I have with it.Firstly, "cabalist" suggests the mystic gains their abilities by study like the aforementioned wizard, and in D&D there are lots of psionics who are born with their powers innately.Secondly, many Mystics in the real world claim(ed) to have knowledge of the natural or supernatural "mysteries of the universe" beyond un-illumined folk. If this is true in a D&D sense, being a mystic sounds more like a 3E Prestige Class - they are, say an Wizard who also knows "Wizardly Mysteries" that give them powers unknown to ordinary wizards.In that sense, the 3E Archmage and Mystic Theurge are both "mystics". Heck, the latter even has it in the prestige class name!My tastes still run against Mystic for a psionicist class. Something like Psychic or Mentalist would suit me better.Hmm... or maybe <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/esoteric" target="_blank">Esoteric</a>? That has a similar meaning to Mystic, but I like that better for the class name, since to me it has more philosophical connotations than religious ones. That might raise arguments over whether one can use esoteric as a noun (Some dictionaries I checked only accept it as an adjective).Esotericist might be more correct, but I like the ring of "Esoteric" better.Still, considering how D&D occasionally mangles English, it wouldn't bother me even if it was bending the language a bit...</blockquote>

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