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<blockquote data-quote="Eyes of Nine" data-source="post: 9771307" data-attributes="member: 99786">Personally, the way I see a psionic person as different from a magic person is magic comes from outside of themselves. Even a sorcerer has &quot;Wild Magic&quot; or &quot;Draconic Magic&quot; source. Psionics is just power of the (very special) mind.So looked at like that, I'd like to key psionic powers off of hit points directly. No other outside economy. HP == Power. So in 5e terms, a Psion is going to be one of those Dual Ability Classes (I forget the fancy acronym) of Con/Int.That's where I'd start, and from there the mechanics start to write themselves.I do like the idea of areas of specialty within Psion, the effects of which of course do overlap with magic. Stars Without Number had a good set of specialties (called disciplines iirc), let me see if I can find the pdf here...Ah yes - Bio, Meta (the ability to find other Psions falls under this category), Precog, Telekinesis, Telpathy, Teleportation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eyes of Nine, post: 9771307, member: 99786"] Personally, the way I see a psionic person as different from a magic person is magic comes from outside of themselves. Even a sorcerer has "Wild Magic" or "Draconic Magic" source. Psionics is just power of the (very special) mind. So looked at like that, I'd like to key psionic powers off of hit points directly. No other outside economy. HP == Power. So in 5e terms, a Psion is going to be one of those Dual Ability Classes (I forget the fancy acronym) of Con/Int. That's where I'd start, and from there the mechanics start to write themselves. I do like the idea of areas of specialty within Psion, the effects of which of course do overlap with magic. Stars Without Number had a good set of specialties (called disciplines iirc), let me see if I can find the pdf here... Ah yes - Bio, Meta (the ability to find other Psions falls under this category), Precog, Telekinesis, Telpathy, Teleportation. [/QUOTE]

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