It all started a few weeks ago; I was writing on a D&D board about the new psionic subclasses in Unearthed Arcana, and how I could picture (and quite like) a bunch of psionic archetypes for the existing classes, along with a proper psy-class like the psion or the mystic, to corroborate this new kind of power in 5th Edition.
I could picture psionic options for almost every class but the druid.
And then it struck me: the whole point with all the psionic stuff is “mind over matter” and “scientific magic”, and what is an abnormal, dangerous power of the “natural world” when you apply a fine scientific mind that could perhaps manipulate matter, radioactive metals included, with a sheer thought?
And so the idea of the Circle of the Energy Within was born. The silliest of subclasses, probably. Certainly, the dumbest of the one I have made for 5th Edition, but nevertheless pretty balanced and playable.
- from the publisher's blurb