All New 5e Psionics Class 

I mean superheroes dying and coming back 6 seconds later is kind of a thing.

If i ever get around to dming for a player using this class prolly gonna house rule that if you kill yourself with an ability it supercharges your spell in some cool way (so long as they dont pull revivify shenanigans in which case they can enjoy their lame normal effects)

Going Supernova has a new ring to it now! :D

I’m always looking for ways to get make death dramatic, or something that the players are in control of. It’s so much more heroic, the fantasy of “I’m going down swinging, trying to save the squad” is huge!

Max Strain is going to be the name for my fantasy superhero; he lives on the edge.

I want that soft limit system for regular spellcasters. I'll probably get most of my mileage from this book trying to cannibalize it for a new arcane spellcaster system that none of my players will ever be interested in.

It is funny how completely weird the Vancian system is, especially now that ritual spells and cantrips exist which contradict the system. As a 1st level wizard I can cast a Firebolt 600 times an hour and literally be a harbinger of destruction, but can only cast Burning Hands once before telling my party "sorry everyone, but I'm tapped out. I need to study for 8 hours before doing that one again." So silly. 😉

I actually literalized spell slots in my setting. They appear like little coin like scars that fill with a shimmer or glow when a person has enough magic in them to channel it into a spell. When you get new ones you choose or roll on where they appear on your body, and what colour each level is. The glow is faint enough you can't really see it in the light, and even in darkness its not really visible until you cast a spell, in which case there's a flare of energy. Casters can suppress this effect, and try to hide their power, like tensing a muscle. Detect Magic can sense the level of spell a caster can cast, unless they are hiding it behind an illusion or by suppressing it, in the latter case you basically do an opposed roll to see if you can see what they're hiding. The big ones 7th level on appear as halos or motes of flame at the brow or hands. Helped me explain it to the players better. Different cultures call them different things. Gates, wards, crowns, or have like a title for different levels "Marks of the humming bird" for 1st level slots, things like that. Levels are sometimes called Risings, or Hosts depending on faction and philosophy. So a wizard might say they have "Three wards of the third Rising." Or a someone might say of a Cleric "She bears a Crown of the Seventh Host!". But I also am fine with like mana and spell points and I kind of feel like that makes way more sense for innate casting creatures, or like devils and demons and the like. Powers are cool, and I like strain. Even with a slot system, I kind of which there was more casting checks with cool results. You cast the spell but X happens, kind of thing. Looking forward to The Talent.

@@Lurklen Cannibalizing this

@@andrewshandle Well I see it as pretty reasonable, and not "silly" as if it is an oversight. It's a major part of the game that still holds up. No need to read my further thoughts but I would like to share: You're being intellectually dishonest by saying it is contradictory because when you compare the limits of magical effects most cantrips do compared to levelled spells there is a big jump in effectiveness. The intuitive design of spell slots is self-explanatory and I agree with it because it presumes that the PC is still a mortal who cannot simply go on forever taxing their body and mind. Cantrips are like warm-ups, it's a very non-taxing form of ejecting magic from your body. Yes, it's so natural to you, you can do it 600 times. Like a bodybuilder curling a 1 lb. dumbbell. Rituals require time which makes up for the need to immediately expend magic to cause an effect like most spells require. I can understand how it is just a way to use a LEVELED spell without exhausting yourself because of familiarity with it. To touch on your example: Burning Hands is literally spewing flame from your hands in a concentrated, continuous form for damage naturally higher than firebolt. Yeah, that sounds much more mentally and physically taxing because it's a giant sheet of fire coming from your body that you are trying not to get burned by as you use it as a weapon compared to a small fireball you launch. If you do it over and over, yeah that sounds exhausting...a REST is reasonable for your body and mind to regain the capacity to do the spells. Higher level spells have less spell slots to use for them, and that makes sense because they generally have stronger magical effects compared to cantrips. The Talent is basically the exception because you are intentionally trying to exhaust yourself in a almost suicidal manner if you want to be very effective, with a cost, which is cool. It also makes sense for the class that the strain on the corporeal form of the PC is suffering as they overexert themselves using a unique form of psionics magic.

Moreso, doing something Wizards literally gave up on doing.

Hey, "death by a thousand cuts" is a saying for a reason.

mon ami

​@@Lishtenbirddeath by a thousand paper cuts more like 😂

Throwin' shade on my favorite mutant.

he was my favorite mutant growing up, I was humorously blindsided by this

Still better than mystic lol

I had to close my eyes on that one.

pffahaha

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Dungeon Crawl Classics does this really well!

I just have a thing in my (non DnD) game that works similar (strain is uncapped, you don't randomly roll to reduce it, it randomly goes down on rests, but basically on sorcerer miscast, it adds the strain to the misscast, with my own wild magic table) and while i don't think it would be that great in general, it was well liked by the player that got to play with it, and liked and hated by the party suffering the misscasts (sometimes the misscasts were even beneficial, summoning a great storm for them to escape with, for example) So reddit reviewers be darned :D

We DID! :D

Volunteer playtest coordinator here. The Talent underwent rounds upon rounds of playtesting and balancing before release, making as sure as possible that the resulting class doesn't crowd out any other classes, but maintains its own identity without falling off in power. Similar to the Beastheart, this received long-term playtests at all Tiers of play, from level 1 to 20. Your non-Talent players might want to be Talents all the same though, because they're the new, shiny class "that's not like all the other classes" ;)

It's for 5e. They'll 100% have the talent class in their new RPG, but it'll be its own rules so buying this doesn't mean you've got 'new RPG' content.

Sadly, I don't think they're planning to make any more products for 5e. But! They're in the process of making their own new RPG which so far looks really awesome!

I too am very excited for their RPG system, but I think it would be a missed opportunity to cease creating supplements for 5e. ONE D&D is not going to be the step up that Wizards THINK it is, so 5e is going to remain a staple I think, that’s just my opinion though! I support everything MCDM does, I love their designs and core values of content creation!

@@DMTatDad Unfortunately, D&D 5e is a Wizards of the Coast product, and they've proven that they're willing and able to throw all their 3rd party developers under the bus to rake in a few extra dollars. I don't think ANY 3rd party developer is interested in continuing to do business with them.

@@kevingriffith6011 Yes this is true but with a lot of 5e’s mechanics as part of the SRD and OGL now in Creative Commons, it allows supplementary content to keep being made for 5e. And if anything, continuing to make supplements for 5e that directly rival the quality WoTC puts out I think is a based moved. I’m just tryna have a positive outlook and hope they continue making baller classes 😂

@@DMTatDad It's less that it's OK to make 5e products NOW, and more that nobody trusts WOTC to not try something like this AGAIN. There is no financial security with the wizards on the coast.

"Jaunt" is a 2nd-order power that allows you to teleport up to 30 ft as an action. Raising the order by 1 allows you to do it as a bonus action

Before the end of the year. It's done with testing and in layout. Free to everyone who already bought the Original Illrigger.

Absolutely! You get all three separate PDFs.

There are items and feats in the supplement that allow non-Talents to manifest psionic powers (kind of like scrolls). That might bridge the gap a little, but maybe some of the challenge for the party comes from tackling something a little harder to bring down traditionally?