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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7964220" data-attributes="member: 20323">Seems like they went back to the OD&D Eldritch Wizardry version by Gary Gygax and Brian Blume, and then built and improved from there using various appearances of psionics through the editions as touchstones. See attached image below from Eldritch Wizardry.They even settled on three subclasses to "carry" the psionic powers, which echoes the original framework of psionic power lists being tailored to fighting men, magic-users, and clerics; only in the UA it's fighters, rogues, and sorcerers.Looks really promising!I think the "psionics is sometimes magic and sometimes not" approach will lead to a bit of dissonance down the line – e.g. a monster referring to psionics with some attack/trait, a monster with the (psionics) tag on its spellcasting with mind thrust on its spell list, and a PC with mind thrust on their spell list strangely without the (psionics) tag. But the choices for which psionic powers are treated as magic looks well-balanced – i.e. psionic invisibility and teleportation being magical, and thus detectable with see invisibility or preventable with forbiddance, respectively. <img src="https://i.imgur.com/QLGYqwj.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>