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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8095116" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Thank you, good analysis.I actually generally prefer that in class based games such as D&amp;D the classes to be concrete things that have in universe meaning so in that sense I get the desire for psions to be their own thing. Then again I don't think getting stuck on nomenclature is helpful. In my setting druids are usually called shamans. I think part of the issue to me that I really don't get what sets the psions apart on fundamental level. 'They use their inner power,' well so do the sorcerers and monks so giving them 'psionic' subclasses works for me. Fundamentally the whole 'but its different' thing just doesn't compute for me in this instance. I don't see an essential difference between a sorcerer drawing on their innate magical capabilities and a psion drawing on their inner mental power to produce blatantly supernatural effects. Characterising one as sorcery and other to psionic seems mostly like a matter of style; they're both basically doing the same thing so in that sense I don't see a huge issue in them being represented by the same base class.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8095116, member: 7025508"] Thank you, good analysis. I actually generally prefer that in class based games such as D&D the classes to be concrete things that have in universe meaning so in that sense I get the desire for psions to be their own thing. Then again I don't think getting stuck on nomenclature is helpful. In my setting druids are usually called shamans. I think part of the issue to me that I really don't get what sets the psions apart on fundamental level. 'They use their inner power,' well so do the sorcerers and monks so giving them 'psionic' subclasses works for me. Fundamentally the whole 'but its different' thing just doesn't compute for me in this instance. I don't see an essential difference between a sorcerer drawing on their innate magical capabilities and a psion drawing on their inner mental power to produce blatantly supernatural effects. Characterising one as sorcery and other to psionic seems mostly like a matter of style; they're both basically doing the same thing so in that sense I don't see a huge issue in them being represented by the same base class. [/QUOTE]

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