Gammadoodler
Hero
Worth noting that this puts you in the 'psionics can be the same as spells' camp. I don't believe you've indicated otherwise, but it's worth noting as there are several camps with differing opinions on what the relationship to spells should be.If they didn't include displays, then the also did not include the lack of displays. The proper response should then be, "Well, how do we balance it then?", rather than just assuming that there would be no balance, which is rather silly as WotC makes a lot of effort to keep the classes balanced.
As I told him, he is aware that the majority of us are advocating for balance, not for imbalance. Especially me as he has had that conversation with me multiple times. So when he jumped in with, "Let's look at the consequences of "no components" then, shall we?," he was aware that for the most part, those on my side aren't advocating for a lack of components with no balancing factor. For him to say that anyway was to deflect from the real discussion and change what the position of most on my side of things have been saying. Hence, Red Herring and Strawman
Had he been making a response based what he knew about the position of those of us who want psionics to have no components, he would have said something like, "The following story shows why psionics having no components needs to be balanced in some other way like people have suggested."
The displays are not once the spell is cast. "Displays" that happen after the spell is cast are called spell effects. Displays happen while the spell is being cast which alerts anyone who wishes to Counterspell. And as we(collectively) have said in other threads, you can quite easily balance the inability to stop them from casting through immobilization and silence, in other ways. It's not as if they can't be given slight disadvantages somewhere else to compensate.
As it relates to the ability to implement other countermeasures, I'd agree that it's possible. Outside of counterspell though, which is only good for the 'psionic spells' camp, I haven't seen any proposed countermeasures (perhaps these have been sorted through elsewhere in other threads).
So, what is a fair price to still be able to cast spells after you've had your arms and legs severed?