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UA 2025: The Psion Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:48:31 +0000

Not even the Ranger has had as many UA releases thrown at it as the Psion (née Mystic). Searching through the dusty, moldering archives of this very website, I see that I last wrote a UA breakdown about psionics in 2020, but it was already in good company. I was genuinely surprised to see a new attempt, because I honestly thought the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, Psi Knight Fighter, and Soulknife Rogue were WotC’s last word on the topic. Psion Class […]

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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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Psionics, Part Five

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:00:08 +0000

Welcome back to History of the Classes, after a week of ridiculous polling and a week off. We return to the history of psionics in D&D, already in progress. This article discusses psionics in Third Edition D&D. I think I can fairly sum up the approach as making psionic classes as close to pre-existing classes and mechanics as possible – it’s a spell point system with some weird parapsychology mixed in. (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Dark Sun) D&D […]

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