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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7224862">I'd be more o.k. with the Mystic if it were less jack-of-all trades.&nbsp; As another poster phrased it, mind-over-mind or mind-over-matter.&nbsp; However, mind-over-matter becomes an awfully lot like Transmuation, so I think I'd go with mind-over-mind, e.g. attacks causing psychic damage, reading emotions, reading thoughts, telepathy, ignoring pain, causing/curing Frightened condition, bonuses to Cha-based skills, etc.Your ability to sense strong emotions gives you a premonition of attacks, so Dex + Int when not wearing armor (and thus no armor proficiencies).Sub-classes could be based on emotions: a Love-based subclass, a Fear-based subclass, an Anger-based subclass, Greed, Jealous, Hatred, Sorrow, etc...&nbsp; (In which case maybe it should be called Empath not Mystic, but I've always hated Mystic as a name for a psion anyway.&nbsp; &quot;Mystic&quot; suggests to me a connection to gods or spirits, not powers of the mind.)Mind you, I still think psionics feels like sci-fi not fantasy, but at least it wouldn't be this &quot;if you don't like classes, pick the classy class-less class!&quot; class.&nbsp; Got that, class?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7224862"] I'd be more o.k. with the Mystic if it were less jack-of-all trades. As another poster phrased it, mind-over-mind or mind-over-matter. However, mind-over-matter becomes an awfully lot like Transmuation, so I think I'd go with mind-over-mind, e.g. attacks causing psychic damage, reading emotions, reading thoughts, telepathy, ignoring pain, causing/curing Frightened condition, bonuses to Cha-based skills, etc. Your ability to sense strong emotions gives you a premonition of attacks, so Dex + Int when not wearing armor (and thus no armor proficiencies). Sub-classes could be based on emotions: a Love-based subclass, a Fear-based subclass, an Anger-based subclass, Greed, Jealous, Hatred, Sorrow, etc... (In which case maybe it should be called Empath not Mystic, but I've always hated Mystic as a name for a psion anyway. "Mystic" suggests to me a connection to gods or spirits, not powers of the mind.) Mind you, I still think psionics feels like sci-fi not fantasy, but at least it wouldn't be this "if you don't like classes, pick the classy class-less class!" class. Got that, class? [/QUOTE]

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