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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8296663" data-attributes="member: 5948">Even Dark Sun, which is damn near the quintessential D&D psionics-heavy setting, moved away from these terms at times - the very scientific/academic Greek-derived terms didn't seem terribly fitting to a not-very-scholarly setting like Athas, so I kinda approved of the change, personally..  Psionics were called The Way in-world, and people who used psionics were called mindbenders (for those who are more telepathy-focused) or shipfloaters (more telekinetically-focused, the name deriving from the fact that Athasian ships floated above the silt sea with the assistance of a telekineticist focusing their powers through an obsidian control sphere).  Though of course there was crossover between the two, some shipfloaters had some telepathic abilities and so on.Add 'seer' to these two terms (to represent divinatory or clairvoyant psionic abilities) and to Tasha's Psychic warrior, and that's a lot of the bases covered for me.  But on a bigger scale, it just reminds me that it's worth remembering that D&D is a big, varied thing and if a name of a generic game term breaks immersion in a particular setting, it's easy enough to change.  Or even within different places within a single setting.  A Lamordian academic or creepy brain experimenter might call something a 'psionic metacreative discipline', but in somewhere like Kartakass or Verbrek or the like it'd probably have a very different name.</blockquote>

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