As a giant disclaimer at the outset: in the early days of 5E, there were a number of Unearthed Arcana posts made by WotC that never amounted to anything. Modern Magic (which, to be honest, felt a little more like "Cyberpunk Magic") and the Mystic were both pretty bold ideas that never went anywhere (unless you count the Psion as the evolution of the Mystic - though I wouldn't). There have, of course, always been examples of stuff that got changed significantly or just didn't make it through, like I believe a "Brute" Fighter that might have represented a subclass appropriate to the Gruul Clans prior to the announcement of Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, or its School of Inventions Wizard, which actually got re-imagined as a magic item (the Mizzium Apparatus).
So, we could see these recent UAs ultimately wind up not going anywhere.
We do know that the Forgotten Realms subclasses and the revised Artificer are going to be published - in fact, Eberron: Forge of the Artificer is coming out I believe next month, and the Forgotten Realms sourcebooks later this year.
But the two most recent UAs touched on themes and tropes that are not in any officially announced books. So... should we consider these low-key announcements?
As precedent, we can look to the Gothic Subclasses and Gothic Lineages, which were released before the announcement of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.
So, let's consider the last couple UAs:
Horror Subclasses:
The second-to-most-recent was a group of Horror-themed subclasses. Most of these would be reprints, but it was notable that they came together in such a specific theme.
Naturally, D&D and horror has an official setting: the nightmarish Domains of Dread.
In my mind, Van Richten's is very recent, but four years might seem to WotC like a reasonable interval between releases. This UA included both of the subclasses first printed in that book. So, to be frank, I think the most obvious implication here would be that they will release some kind of Ravenloft supplement.
What would be the nature of that supplement? Well, given that we have Van Richten's already - it's not out of print or anything - I doubt we would need a gigantic campaign setting book. Instead, I suspect we might get something like Forge of the Artificer, which is going to be at both a lower price point and a lower page count than your usual big book.
After the disappointment of Spelljammer and to a lesser but still substantial extent Planescape, I think they might be steering away from the box-set campaign settings (which both had a smaller page count than Van Richten's while costing more) but I also suspect that Forge of the Artificer might become a model for them moving forward that allows quicker production and might sell better because of its lower price.
I don't recall what the Forgotten Realms books are going to cost or what their page counts will be, but if we set that aside, we might look at these horror subclasses coming in something similar to Forge of the Artificer.
Both would be revisits to settings already given a big setting book in 5E, with just some supplementary material. Maybe a Ravenloft book would give us a couple more Domains of Dread, some new monsters, those subclasses, and a smattering of other stuff.
Psion:
So, Psionics has, of course, been a thing in D&D since the earliest days. But as I understand it, if there's one setting that really foregrounds Psionics, it's Dark Sun.
Dark Sun was a very popular setting for D&D during 2nd Edition, and is all about living on a brutal world where even resources like metal are rare, and where magic will drain what little life is left in the land. Among Dark Sun's inspirations, I believe, was Dune (which modern audiences might be much more familiar with thanks to the fantastic Denis Villeneuve movies,) which includes a lot of mental powers that could be considered Psionics.
As I understand it (I've never played in a Dark Sun campaign, and couldn't tell you any of its proper nouns except I believe Athas, which is, if I recall correctly, the name of the world) Dark Sun as a setting has a lot of elements that could be tricky to package as an appealing product, though the extent of my knowledge about it is just that there's slavery and racism in it. I don't think such topics and themes need be stricken from a setting lest people think you're endorsing them, but I do think it behooves WotC to approach it with care and sensitivity.
Honestly, the thing I'd be more worried about for Dark Sun is how to keep things balanced when barely anyone has access to metal. 5E's approach to gear (and to be fair, I don't know much about other editions' approaches) really hinders certain classes if they can't get access to all the mundane gear on the equipment lists. A Paladin who only has access to Hide armor is going to have a much harder time than one that can start off with some chain mail, upgrade to splint around level 4 or 5, and then plate around level 8. By contrast, though, a Monk is going to have no problem at all.
I'd also say that you'd need to find a way to deal with the defiling nature of magic in it - is this all spellcasting, or just certain classes?
But generally speaking, I think we could use a setting that upends certain assumptions about the way that the rules work. I've always said that a campaign setting should present itself with something unique that makes you want to run a game in that world, rather than just doing the Forgotten Realms. Dark Sun sure feels like it accomplishes that.
All that being said: the Psion might not even come in a campaign setting book.
I think it would be perfectly reasonable for the Psion to be the headliner of its own book, much as the Artificer will be center-stage in Forge of the Artificer (ok, fine, it's still technically headlined by the Eberron setting).
Another, somewhat left-field option, would be that it comes in a monster book.
After Volo's and Mordenkainen's, the next two books we got that were truly focused on their bestiaries were Fizban's Treasury of Dragons and Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants (damn you, Bigby, for messing with the "fictional author's name, apostrophe, s" naming convention,) each of which took a creature type and delved deep into them and their lore.
I've liked these books, and I could imagine WotC following up with more creature-type-specific books. While I'd love for them to do a whole book expanding the smaller types, like Plants or Oozes, I think Aberrations would be a pretty reasonable option. And if such a book were to come out, it wouldn't be a terrible stretch to include the Psion within it.
Aberrations, after all, are what I like to think of as science fiction pushing its way into fantasy. Psions, likewise, feel like a science-fiction class, the genre being what distinguishes them from Sorcerers and Wizards.
Anyway, we'll have to wait for some kind of announcement. And given that we've got quite a few announced books for this year, I wouldn't hold my breath for these books.
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