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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8288354" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Because it creates distinction.If -everything- is Magic then you've got nothing but peanut butter sandwiches. You can put that peanut butter on your bread with a butter knife, a spoon, or a fork if you wanna be difficult... But it's still peanut butter.Having Arcane Magic and Psionics is Peanut Butter and Jelly. Having Arcane Magic separate from Divine Magic separate from Psionics? Even more variety.Breaking Primal Magic off, too? Very flavorful. Having Occultists tapping into a wholly different kind of &quot;Old Magic&quot;?Mmmmm... Now we're getting somewhere!Suddenly you've got all these different ideas and identities and sources and places to go with stuff. By creating these kinds of distinctions, rather than saying it's all magic and all magic comes from a monolithic source like the Weave, you have a lot more stories to tell.No.The closest thing we've got to an answer to the question is: Psionics isn't magic, but it can manipulate magic. That's for 5e.That's not &quot;Entertained&quot;. That's from the designers of the game.And not a single Psionic Knight or Soulknife class feature refers to it as a &quot;Spell&quot;. So also no.That's all, yeah. It can interact. When Psionics duplicates a spell, for example, you can counter it. But when it doesn't? You can't. Like a Kalashtar's Telepathy. That'll function in an Antimagic Field 'cause it's nonmagical, even if it is supernatural.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8288354, member: 6796468"] Because it creates distinction. If -everything- is Magic then you've got nothing but peanut butter sandwiches. You can put that peanut butter on your bread with a butter knife, a spoon, or a fork if you wanna be difficult... But it's still peanut butter. Having Arcane Magic and Psionics is Peanut Butter and Jelly. Having Arcane Magic separate from Divine Magic separate from Psionics? Even more variety. Breaking Primal Magic off, too? Very flavorful. Having Occultists tapping into a wholly different kind of "Old Magic"? Mmmmm... Now we're getting somewhere! Suddenly you've got all these different ideas and identities and sources and places to go with stuff. By creating these kinds of distinctions, rather than saying it's all magic and all magic comes from a monolithic source like the Weave, you have a lot more stories to tell. No. The closest thing we've got to an answer to the question is: Psionics isn't magic, but it can manipulate magic. That's for 5e. That's not "Entertained". That's from the designers of the game. And not a single Psionic Knight or Soulknife class feature refers to it as a "Spell". So also no. That's all, yeah. It can interact. When Psionics duplicates a spell, for example, you can counter it. But when it doesn't? You can't. Like a Kalashtar's Telepathy. That'll function in an Antimagic Field 'cause it's nonmagical, even if it is supernatural. [/QUOTE]

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