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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7673816" data-attributes="member: 2067">I like them, at least as starting points. A pretty significant point, though: sorcerers aren't dependent on an ancestor in 5e - draconic is perhaps based on ancestry, but wild magic might "just happen" and being a favored soul is like something a god does to you. Sorcery in 5e is innate to you, but it just comes from your "magical origin."A psion, in this comparison, wouldn't have a magical origin - they'd have some sort of awakening or vision that allowed them to access psionics.I really like that. Even the "divine" classes don't milk that story of "sudden revelation" well and it fits nicely with the semi-Buddhist 3e fluff pretty nicely. The closest is the Favored Soul, but even that is more about a god than about your own realization of the world. I also like it because it's distinctly medieval in flavor, just not European-medieval, which means we don't have to traffic in the science-y terms. We can loot the language of Buddhism and yoga and Himalayan spiritualism and that creates a place for psionics in the campaign world. And you can still work in bits of Far Realm or crystals or pulpy science stuff at the edges if you wanted to. I'd groove on a psion that was pseudo-Tibetan in flavor with a skill-based roll-to-activate powers system that had points that you could spend to ramp up or sustain a given power.</blockquote>