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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7673242" data-attributes="member: 996">That's easy to achieve, given 5e's presentation as a starting point rather than as RAW graven in stone.  As long as the mechanics, themselves, aren't tightly coupled to the explanation/origin of psionics, there wouldn't be a problem.  You could change 'triggered by Far Realms incursions in the distant past' to 'developed by mystic sages in the distant past,' or 'mysterious inborn powers that just arise in individuals for no discernible reason' anything else you wanted it.  And, even if rules are tightly coupled to concept, the DM is still free to change them, and couple them to some alternate concept. That's a very substantial change.  From no casting at all to casting is much more dramatic than from, say, casting because one of your distant ancestors was a dragon, to casting because some of your distant ancestors fought off an incursion from the Far Realms.  And, isn't the 'nature' of Draconic vs Chaos sorcerers' magic already different, anyway?   I is assuming the 'psionics is magic' approach, at least mechanically.  That's not a bad thing.  It keeps the game simpler and reduces the sheer amount of redundant new material that'd be required to bring psionics to 5e.  That economy of design and page count from leveraging existing magic systems is why it seems like something WotC might go for, 5e development seems to have been leaning that way, so far. Mechanical differentiation and flavor are separable.  The Dragon and Chaos sorcerers have different flavors even though they're sub-classes, for instance.  A Psionic sorcerer sub-class would, as well.  Not that I'm in any way against Psionics getting it's own magic sub-system and full class or set of classes.  If a whole book were devoted to it, that'd be a perfectly reasonable way to go, and very exciting for fans of Psionics, I'm sure.  But even a sub-class or few would be more than we have now, and new 'splat' books don't seem to be something we can expect right away...</blockquote>

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