The Talent Open Playtest Begins!

 UPDATE: The talent playtest has ended and is no longer available.

Hey Everyone,

I am pleased to announce that The Talent and Psionics is now in open playtesting. This fifth edition supplement features MCDM’s next class, the talent—a hero that uses mind powers to battle monsters and overcome obstacles. This is the MCDM take on the psion!

Characters with extraordinary mental powers not derived from prayer or magic feature in many of our favorite stories—Eleven from Stranger Things, Professor X or Jean Grey from the X-Men. Many of Stephen King’s stories, like Dead Zone or Firestarter, feature pyrokinetics or telekinetics. The Talent and Psionics gives you rules to build these characters.

Talents don’t use spell slots. Instead when you manifest a power you might gain strain. At first, strain isn’t anything more than an annoyance, but as it accumulates, it becomes more debilitating. Accumulating a lot of strain can actually kill a talent! It’s up to them to decide. How desperate is the situation? How badly do you need to succeed? How much are you willing to sacrifice to save your friends—or the world? The power is in your hands.

This playtest includes rules for psionic powers, every level of the talent class, 7 subclasses, 100 psionic powers, the gemstone dragonborn player ancestry, psionic items, psionic creatures, and supplemental rules for Strongholds & Followers and Kingdoms & Warfare, including a talent stronghold, talent retainers, talent Martial Advantages, and psionic warfare units!

This linked document contains the current version of the open playtest and includes a survey which we’re using to collect feedback on The Talent and Psionics. You can also come talk about it on our Discord by navigating to the #playtest_info channel and clicking the brain 🧠 emoji. If you want to get future rounds, you can find them on that Discord server, or check the link to see if you have the latest version.

Open playtests like this really help us make the best possible supplements to put into your hands. Thank you so much for taking the time to check out The Talent and Psionics!

—James and the talented crew