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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9364986" data-attributes="member: 87792">Whenever the Battlemaster "Warlord" comes up people have clearly and relevant mechanical descriptions of what the warlord did but the Battlemaster didn't. And there is strong consensus as to what these are. And why the playstyle doesn't match at all.Whenever the Psion comes up there are (as in this thread) people asking for things already done by the Aberrant Mind. No one has ever mentioned one single thing I am aware of about how the Aberrant Mind has a different playstyle to the Psion.  Because it doesn't.And people insisting that because one option at level 14 is something they dislike it ruins the whole thing. And people insisting that psychic spells aren't magic because someone with a thesaurus replaced "caster" with "manifester".I have a large buffet here - Aberrant Mind, GOOlock, Whispers Bard, Astral Self Monk, Soulknife, Psi Warrior.They work differently because they are different classes. We already have that range; GOOlock Bladelock and Soulknife are both psychics with psychic weapons.Which is why the existing buffet is better than your It Must Be A Class And Nothing Else Will Do.Which is what you are trying to do. You are saying there must be one psychic class.Meanwhile the existing options are the opposite. We have sorcerers, warlocks, bards, monks, rogues, and fighters all with psionic options.And they had four basic features<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wizard hp, armour, weapons, and wizard level centralisation on spellcasting.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A spell point casting system with the number of spells points you got being based on wizard totals</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Spells you could cast without VSM components</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">70 pages worth of shovelware spells that were often knock-off wizard spells, many referencing the wizard spells by name. There were a few gems in there.</li> </ul>And the Aberrant Mind nails points 1-3. It doesn't bother with the shovelware - if a spell is good enough to include it is good enough to share.What are these "half the things" it can't do? Because so far no one I can recall has presented one single thing the Aberrant Mind can't do that a Psion can other than call itself a full class. No one I can recall other than me has even mentioned a single one of the spells that hasn't been ported - or any of the ephemera like psycrystals.And it is a straight up lie to say that Aberrant Mind is being presented as the only option. I've been pointing out revised GOOlocks, Whispers Bards, and Soulknives.Indeed. What the psion used to do has already been eaten by the Aberrant Mind, which left few crumbs. And just one subclass could do it by itself because of how little was actually there mechanically other than a knock-off wizard with a wizardish playstyle.And by not forcing psychics to be wizard knockoffs the way psions did they really got opened up.If you want the Psion mechanics from previous editions the Aberrant Mind has the ones that aren't universal for casters in 5e. They weren't that much.Meanwhile if you add a new "this is how psychics work" class you're attempting a straightjacket on something that's already escaped. Meanwhile there's much more room for something like the Mystic that isn't claiming to be The One True Psychic Class.Or they already exist. The only new abilities they could grab would be spells.So what you are saying is that if you don't want the aberration theming no one is making you use it? It's simply the default and alternatives are written in for if you want to play other ways. Your literal complaint here is that it makes plenty of room for your tastes without orbiting around them.</blockquote>

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