D&D 5E Psionics in Tasha

[Gladius Legis]

We already knew this. Since every attempt to make a psionicist was rejected, WotC decided their only option was to go with the simplest, least hated option - psionic spells.

How is making psionics just more spells the least hated? Everyone I've ever heard of considers it the worst thing they could do with it.

 

[Gladius Legis]

No, the point of psionics "from the start" (1976's Supplement III: Eldritch Wizardry) was to be a handful of odd powers held by characters with otherwise-normal classes, plus a psionic combat system.

If your proposed psionics system doesn't have psionic combat, and it does have psionic classes or subclasses, you've entirely abandoned what psionics was "from the start" in favor of doing something radically different.

Which is fine, but don't pretend you're channeling the true nature of D&D psionics, rather than saying, "I feel psionics should be X, not Y".

This is irrelevant, and that you think this is any kind of rebuttal is shameful intellectual dishonesty.

It does not change the fact that psionics was never intended to be magic of any kind. Period.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

This is irrelevant, and that you think this is any kind of rebuttal is shameful intellectual dishonesty.

It does not change the fact that psionics was never intended to be magic of any kind. Period.

Being able to levitate objects or shoot mind bullets is magic. Period.

 

[Gladius Legis]

Being able to levitate objects or shoot mind bullets is magic. Period.

Psionics is not magic. Never has been in D&D. That is fact.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Psionics is not magic. Never has been in D&D. That is fact.

No it's not, it's pointless semantics.

 

[Gladius Legis]

No it's not, it's pointless semantics.

Nope. It's D&D, where psionics has always been defined as distinct from magic. Explicitly so. To say otherwise is dishonest.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Nope. It's D&D, where psionics has always been defined as distinct from magic. Explicitly so. To say otherwise is dishonest.

A distinction without a difference.

 

[Gladius Legis]

I'll say one thing

I am not surprised "Psionics as
Spells" is coming out in TCOE, a book with options that could sell itself on its own.

Not even a Season 8 Game of Thrones rules could drag this book down.

Actually, this is the one thing that is seriously making me question whether I want to get TCOE.

 

[Gladius Legis]

A distinction without a difference.

Wrong.

 

[Minigiant]

A distinction without a difference.

There was always a difference.

People who saw all supernatural effects as the same magic just failed to see it.