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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MorkaisChosen" data-source="post: 7968441" data-attributes="member: 7023011">Another option (my preferred one!) is just having PCs start at 3rd level.I agree that it feels odd not to have the psionics at 1st level for some concepts, but that's a familiar wrinkle of 5th Edition's design spreading the core toolkit over the first 3 levels.My usual two PHB examples are an ex-soldier College of Valour Bard and a magic student who gets kicked out and turns to crime to get the materials to keep studying, becoming an Arcane Trickster - both concepts that fit well in their class and subclass, but feel like they start with the wrong abilities for the narrative if played from 1st level.All this is to say: I'm not inclined to criticise these subclasses for that problem, as it isn't unique to them by any stretch of the imagination; my feelings on that matter are probably coloured by the fact that it's a problem that bothers me enough with PHB classes that I have a standard solution that works just as well for these subclasses as any other.</blockquote>