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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccooke" data-source="post: 7964282" data-attributes="member: 6695890">From the wording, it's not currently clear which version was intended.However, I would say that having you be unable to use replenishment once the die drops below a d4 would be very unlike anything else in 5e. Consider the mechanically similar ability for Wizards and (Land) druids to regain spell slots. Normally, once you have used up all of your spell slots, they are gone for the day. Full stop. However, using Arcane Recovery, you gain new slots. I'm not saying that it's impossible that WotC intended the ability to be a gamble as you say, but I think it would be very unlike any other ability they have created. It would also be rife for causing people to hold off on using their psychic abilities once it dropped to a d4 for fear of losing it completely. What's more, the number of abilities that reduce your die size directly (without a roll) implies that this is intended to be a power economy - and several of those abilities are bonus actions, which would mean otherwise that you would be guaranteed losing your psychic ability for the day if you activate them while they are d4s. That strikes me as poorer design than this UA looks to be.No, on further study I'm going to say that they intended to have the replenishment work if you have dropped below a d4 and just didn't get the wording quite right in the UA. ... Either that or everything good about the design here is a total fluke. I think I'll go for the "good design" option :-D</blockquote>

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