Quote Originally Posted by furby076 View Post
Do you have evidence to never?

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So take a sorcerer and have it use sorcerer points and call it a psion? that's a very unimaginative and poorly contrived way to make a psion.

I think you have little faith in the abilities of WOTC. With tweaks to some of the powers and abilities, the v3 mystic can work well. Thematically, its a skill monkey. It can do anything others can but it lacks in high end raw power (current state). It's a completely new class (which will require everything, including rules on spells vs powers, magic items, monsters, etc). So, this won't fit in half a page like adding a subclass into Xanders guide. This would blow up a game setting like spelljammer or dark sun, but probably fits in one of those two bests.
No evidence, just a hunch.

There'd be more to it than just sticking Ki points on the Sorcerer. The Monk uses Ki points, yet that's not you think of when you think of it. You imagine a fast-punching blur of movement and fists...mostly due to good implentation of Ki points.

You could do a Psionic Sorcerer by making Sorcery Points to also be considered as Ki points, which you refresh on a Short Rest. Add some kind of cost to compensate for the faster recharge Sorcery Points by saying that you can't convert them into spell slots, or that casting a spell that targets another creatures costs spell points equal to your level.

Mostly, the Ki point thing is just to make sure Monks are included. Otherwise, it'd be very confusing to consider how Monks would fit into a Psionic setting.

But I think that a suite of subclasses would be better to implement than a single class. Otherwise, what you run into is a problem where the Psionic class only has a single particular trope, and so it fails the 90% of players that it misses. Or, you make something that does everything and it has no personality (like Mystic v2).

Rather than make a single thing with a lot of different expectations, chop it up into 12 different things with different expectations.

You already know what a Barbarian is supposed to feel like, so a "Psionic Barbarian" has a pretty clear image that you can recognize, right? That would (and should) be different than someone else's image of a Psionic that lifts things with their mind (like a Wizard Psionic).

Use Ki points to allow different Psionic classes to work together, while also making Monks basically the original "Mystic" class.