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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 7964849" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>I haven't really done a deep dive into here yet, but it appears to be a distinct improvement over the previous version. Sorcerer mechanics are a much better fit for how i envision a psion working than wizard spellbooks etc.</p><p></p><p>However ... one thing I'm a little wary of is having ANOTHER caster archetype (especially if we get something like Athas where psions are a major and common feature of the setting and should probably be at least as common as all other sorcerers put together) based around charisma. I ran into this problem when i was trying to stat out my very first 5e PC, a warlock. I wanted to play a distrusted, socially-inept oddball of a dwarf who'd been trapped in a mine cave-in and made his warlock pact in desperation. But if he's going to be a useful warlock, he has to be charismatic?</p><p></p><p>I could certainly see the same difficulty with 'psionic soul' sorcerors. Absent-minded, smelly and vague seers, taciturn and inward-focused psychometabolists? There's psionic archetypes that really don't fit the high-Cha mold. I really hope that WotC just for once in the case of the 'psionic soul' breaks the standard sorcerer template and lets the player choose whether int, wis, or cha is their casting stat at level 1.</p><p></p><p>Also, I really hope they actually give psion/sorcerers a separate spell list. There's just some sorcerer spells that really don't fit. In fact, I'd be in favour of brutally trimming the sorcerer spell list (and adding a few appropriate spells from other lists like Divination, Geas, Sending, Locate Object, Astral Projection, etc etc) and maybe even giving the class some extra sorcery points or something to compensate...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 7964849, member: 5948"] I haven't really done a deep dive into here yet, but it appears to be a distinct improvement over the previous version. Sorcerer mechanics are a much better fit for how i envision a psion working than wizard spellbooks etc. However ... one thing I'm a little wary of is having ANOTHER caster archetype (especially if we get something like Athas where psions are a major and common feature of the setting and should probably be at least as common as all other sorcerers put together) based around charisma. I ran into this problem when i was trying to stat out my very first 5e PC, a warlock. I wanted to play a distrusted, socially-inept oddball of a dwarf who'd been trapped in a mine cave-in and made his warlock pact in desperation. But if he's going to be a useful warlock, he has to be charismatic? I could certainly see the same difficulty with 'psionic soul' sorcerors. Absent-minded, smelly and vague seers, taciturn and inward-focused psychometabolists? There's psionic archetypes that really don't fit the high-Cha mold. I really hope that WotC just for once in the case of the 'psionic soul' breaks the standard sorcerer template and lets the player choose whether int, wis, or cha is their casting stat at level 1. Also, I really hope they actually give psion/sorcerers a separate spell list. There's just some sorcerer spells that really don't fit. In fact, I'd be in favour of brutally trimming the sorcerer spell list (and adding a few appropriate spells from other lists like Divination, Geas, Sending, Locate Object, Astral Projection, etc etc) and maybe even giving the class some extra sorcery points or something to compensate... [/QUOTE]
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