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UA 2020: Psionic Options Revisited Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:01:04 +0000

The WotC team plunges in again on psionics design, in the new UA release. Unlike a lot of UA documents, this one spends about a page discussing the winding path of psionic/mystic development in UA to date, including the official deprecation of some prior UAs – the Psionics wizard and several psionic attack spells. My only issue is that I like Int as the psionic casting stat more than Cha. (Apropos, I am glad that we have the artificer as […]

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Unearthed Arcana: Psionics, Round Four

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 17:13:27 +0000

That’s not the proper name for this UA release, which would be either Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard or PsychicSoulPsionics, but as those are both unhelpful names, you get Psionics, Round Four. This is a new, very 5e take: what if there’s no mystic or psion 20-level class? Instead, psionics is three subclasses, a handful of spells, and two feats. Also, folks? Psionics is one of the most contentious things we ever discuss about D&D. I’m not sure why that is, […]

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UA: The Mystic Class Breakdown, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:23:18 +0000

The new Unearthed Arcana document dropped toward the end of the West Coast working day yesterday, so getting an article up on the same day, while my perpetual goal, was a non-starter. It is a doozy of a release, weighing in at 28 pages and carrying all the context of its predecessors. In case you’re just now joining in on reading about the Mystic, it’s the 5e name for the Psion. This in itself is a thoroughly divisive point in the community, but I am a huge fan of that name change – it feels like an appropriate in-setting work for the great majority of settings (even of the subset that do include psionics).

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Mystic Update – Unearthed Arcana

Shawn Ellsworth — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 02:54:51 +0000

This week's Unearthed Arcana gives us a 28 page third look at the Mystic for D&D 5e.

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The Monk Class, Part One

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 13:00:39 +0000

It’s been, um, a little while now since the History of the Classes column covered character classes rather than social classes. Other than the Warlock, Part Zero, back in October, I haven’t covered classes since February of last year. Thanks for sticking with me, and I hope you’ve enjoyed all of the other things I’ve covered in the intervening time. Today, we’re starting in on the monk, which I can safely call another of the most controversial classes in D&D, and by far the most often banned of the “standard” core classes, according to statistics that I just made up (but based on conversations I see online).

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Psionics, Part Eight

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:00:59 +0000

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, we have come to the eighth and, for the time being, final article of the series on the history of psionics in D&D. In this case, we’re talking about a class that is still in an early, public-playtest state, but it’s also the first exploration of any particular scale of how 5e will present psionics in its settings. Because things could still change, I’ll also discuss my own thoughts on psionics and how it […]

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