We split the difference and inflicted a 20% penalty to MR/SR. For example, in 3e an SR of 18 would drop to 14 for resisting spells, and MR of 20 would be a 16 for resisting psionic powers.
I suspect the results would be different if this poll was in the 5E D&D forum:
Yes and no. What I've experienced over there is that we all have a favorite incarnation and vision. However, most of us also like other incarnations, just not as much. If WotC asked the right questions and not just, "Which ONE do you want?", we would have a psion now. Enough people like some version of psion that WotC could hit the 70% mark with at least one of them, probably more than one.
I mean, they tried that. They really tried, for years. First they gave us a Psion core class (they called it a "Awakened Mystic") in an Unearthed Arcana article. And after getting feedback, they released a different version ("Mystic, Take Two") seven months later. Then they released a third version ("The Mystic Class") thirteen months after that, before switching--based on our feedback--to psionic subclasses instead (first in 2019, and then revised in 2020).
No. They never tried it. They only ever gave us one thing at a time and then asked us if 70% thought that one current incarnation was the one they wanted. Not once did they give us A, B and C and then ask us how we liked all three, because a lot of people liked more than one of those and didn't get the chance to rate more than one favorably.
I dunno man, this sounds an awful lot like "yes I want psionics, just not like that."
