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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8288277" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>A "Second Type" to you. Or not magic at all, to me and the writers of both TSR and WotC for previous editions at least.</p><p></p><p>And while Psionics and Magics can interact, that doesn't mean they're the same thing. Magic can burn your flesh, does that make your flesh magic? A Wisdom save can stop magic from taking hold of your mind. Does that make Wisdom magic?</p><p></p><p>No. It just means these things interact.</p><p></p><p>I really dislike the "Let's simplify everything down to one thing" approach to fantasy. It's too clean. Too boring.</p><p></p><p>There should be -variety-. Different power coming to different people in different ways, rather than everyone just using the same bucket of water and claiming it's somehow different.</p><p></p><p>4e is where it became "Psionic Magic" which always made me mad. Their devotion to trying to cram everything into the smallest number of boxes possible really sucked... Though, granted, there've always been people, like yourself, who just considered Psionics to be another type of Magic.</p><p></p><p>But hey... Y'know what the 5e Mystic says about Psionic Magic..?</p><p></p><p>Not a damned thing.</p><p></p><p>A "Mysterious form of Power" rather than a Mysterious form of Magic.</p><p></p><p>But hey, the Mystic is gone. So let's see what they wrote about whether Psionics is Magic in the Psionic Options UA before Tasha's:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sooo it can -create- magic, but isn't magic by it's very nature.</p><p></p><p>What does Tasha's say?</p><p></p><p>Annnnd</p><p></p><p>No mention of Magic.</p><p></p><p>It ain't magic. It may -interact- with magic. It may even -create- magical effects. But it ain't magic itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8288277, member: 6796468"] A "Second Type" to you. Or not magic at all, to me and the writers of both TSR and WotC for previous editions at least. And while Psionics and Magics can interact, that doesn't mean they're the same thing. Magic can burn your flesh, does that make your flesh magic? A Wisdom save can stop magic from taking hold of your mind. Does that make Wisdom magic? No. It just means these things interact. I really dislike the "Let's simplify everything down to one thing" approach to fantasy. It's too clean. Too boring. There should be -variety-. Different power coming to different people in different ways, rather than everyone just using the same bucket of water and claiming it's somehow different. 4e is where it became "Psionic Magic" which always made me mad. Their devotion to trying to cram everything into the smallest number of boxes possible really sucked... Though, granted, there've always been people, like yourself, who just considered Psionics to be another type of Magic. But hey... Y'know what the 5e Mystic says about Psionic Magic..? Not a damned thing. A "Mysterious form of Power" rather than a Mysterious form of Magic. But hey, the Mystic is gone. So let's see what they wrote about whether Psionics is Magic in the Psionic Options UA before Tasha's: Sooo it can -create- magic, but isn't magic by it's very nature. What does Tasha's say? Annnnd No mention of Magic. It ain't magic. It may -interact- with magic. It may even -create- magical effects. But it ain't magic itself. [/QUOTE]
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