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The 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign The Encyclopedia Magica

I liked how 3e did it with the auditory, olfactory, and visual effects that signaled when psionics were being used.

If it requires bat guano, somatic, and verbal, it's not psionics. It's just a wizard or sorcerer who has a re-flavored fireball spell.

The names don't matter. The abilities are identical and MUST be learned in the exact same order. Knowing about level is irrelevant. Being called action surge, moar attax!!!, or whatever doesn't change that it does the same thing for each fighter.

The plane wasn't locked down. As has been established repeatedly in this thread, that was just a poor choice of words. All that actually happened is tuning forks were taken. And as for the wish, just no. They aren't high enough level to be casting it, so they have it from some sort of item...

Given the change in power levels it would be a fairly big pain in the rear to convert that many powers and feats.

Yes he does. The very first thing every fighter in the setting learns is a fighting style and second wind. None of them can learn action surge before he learns those two things, and all of them MUST learn action surge as their very next thing they improve with. Then all of them get their...

I had a lot more in there than pyrokinesis!! :P The thing with something like Mind Control, is there are lots of types of that as well. Suggestion, friends, charms, dominations, etc. I think you should take a peek at the 2e and 3e psionic books. I don't 100% agree with everything they put...

And things that use the caster as the origin will still obviously come from the psion.

Mental powers in fiction cover far more than that. Carrie used her mind to start fires. Pyrokinesis. Others can see the future, which lends itself to abilities that give advantage in combat, danger senses, etc. The ability to read objects, see auras, feel and/or cause changes in emotion, and...

Grand Moff Tarkin called Vader a sorcerer. The Witches of Dathomir use the force.

Except that's 100% wrong. They had the option to use a wish and just leave. They had the option to handle the planar issue. They had the option to seek out a rival archfey and try to talk it into getting them off the plane. They had the option to try and locate a natural crossing between the...

Not spread over 3 levels it isn't. They might do for a single level worth of psion spells, but still seems a bit short.

Heaven forbid lore actually means something. You want a baby dragon rider, get it. Just don't make it the purple dragon knight. Then everyone is happy.

Because otherwise nobody would be able to tell that psionics were being used, which is a balance issue. 3e solved it by having sights, smells, and sounds happen when psionics were being used.