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The description of the traffic light system does that.

They tell others that a spell is being cast - potentially what spell is being cast - so countermeasures can be taken. Without them...

Sure - but it needs to be in the rules. If you remove v/s/m components you need to replace them with something else. And I think some...

Last time is would have been in Xanathar's Guide. But it got nixed because not enough people voted for it. This is the 3rd or 4th...

What book?

Where does it describe these “mental waves” in the rules? I see no mention of that in the rules either. And it’s not always the target...

Why not? It hasn't hurt 5th edition up to this point. Having a Psion class with somatic components and costly material components next...

My point is I don't care what WotC does, make the game fit your style - not the other way around.

I can ignore the material spell components, but just ‘thinking’ with no gestures is a ‘no’ from me. It should be obvious who is ‘casting...

I mean psionics is, like magic, completely fictional. Its concept can be whatever we, or in this case WotC, wants it to be. Heck, we...

No it can’t. If the lore is secret, the DM has no obligation to reveal it to a history check, even if they rolled a 30. History is about...

The main cultural referent I had for it, growing up, is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_of_Hearts_(poem)

I think the worst aspect of psionics is that people get it in their brain (heh) that psionics should not only not look like...

That is not how it will end up working. What will happen is everyone will spam their highest level spells, end fights quickly because...

They need to equip the bees with flamethrowers.