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It's like he's being disingenuous or something...

Ultimately though, isn't Sci-Fi just another form of fantasy?

You really should tbh, they're pretty awesome.

Maybe burning more resources than is necessary?

Heck, maybe in a later class/subclass feature you get a bonus to the save/resistance to the damage to represent you getting used to your own psychic abilities?

Maybe some kinda save or you get psychic blowback and take (spell level or equivalent)d(psi dice) in damage?

Doesn't Overchannel do something like that? But with damage instead of exhaustion?

Of course. But, the same with the Frenzy barbarian, if you put a penalty in the class that revolves around Exhaustion (probably because of the Frenzy barbarian), people are going to ignore it, regardless of any other positive benefit (like mindless rage/retaliation in the frenzy barbarian)

looks at Frenzy barbarian. Look, I know I'm crapping on psionics a lot, but I do want it, and I want it to be functional.

Alright then. So, outside of other psionics, what would counter them?

So a class specific feature pretty much meant to counter it means that it's fine if an entire way of casting uses the same rules?

And without VSM, how do you detect a spell being cast? It's certainly possible.

people can lie.

By the time you've seen the effect of a spell, it has already been cast, and thus, is in capable of being counterspelled.

So you would say it's how psionics traditionally operate?

So you admit that you want it for purely gameplay reasons, like say, for example, being unable to counterspell it?

Two ideas I've had. 1. Dragon with Sorcerer levels. Kinda simple, but you can still have a lot of fun with it. For example, with a Red Dragon, you can double down and make it a Red Dragon sorcerer, have a bit of with fun and make it a White Dragon sorcerer (party runs in with a bunch of fire...

You are correct on this, actually. When you look at the MM Drow's innate spellcasting and the Drow PC's innate spellcasting (well, not specifically with the Drow, but with later races like Aasimar, they call out that you don't need material components, and I have no reason to doubt it's not the...

... The Psion is The Mystic. Do you not understand that names can change but the central thing can be the same?

That's just the WotC company line, you can't trust that. You'd be right, but the end result is still the same, the Mystic, as it was, has been abandoned, justified or not.