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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9770536" data-attributes="member: 87792">That's because (a) the best caster-like psionic is the GOOlock because warlocks are just better thematically and mechanically than cookie cutter full casters, and the ability to Just Do Stuff through invocations is better than cookie cutter spell casting and (b) the College of Whispers bard is also a caster-like psionic character. I couldn't disagree more about the Int/Cha split. Telepaths are about mental strength not book learning - and that's charisma not intelligence (and if this is such a big thing I fully support making it subclass feature for a new subclass). One of the historical problems of the Psion as a psychic is that they were intelligence rather than being the first charisma caster (predating the sorcerer). As for "lacks most of what they do", that's what any good sorcerer subclass has ten fixed spells for and there's no spell sorcerers are forced to take not from their subclass. The problem here is that the Psion is one very specific and narrow type of psychic character which is the problem making it worthy of a class rather than a subclass. This is made even worse because every one of this incarnation of the Psion is a dual threat telepath/telekinetic; 5e already has better psionic representation than any other edition. And as an aside the metamorph might be playable but not if you use it as people with the fantasy of being a metamorph will want to.Short version: This version of the psion would appear to be shovelware of a sort we haven't seen since the days of 3.X</blockquote>

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