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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9670100" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think anyone goes &quot;yum&quot; about psionics getting called &quot;magic&quot; except people who genuinely don't like psionics, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.Personally I don't have a huge problem with that term being used*, but I do think the clunky slot-based nature of spells in D&amp;D, especially 5E is very poorly suited to fantasy depictions of psionics. But it's rather poorly suited to most fantasy depictions of magic, too! So maybe everyone has to suck it with a pretty bad magic system until 6E comes around?* = Primarily because I've seen plenty of good fantasy novels where they had powers that people colloquially or generally called &quot;magic&quot;, but which operated on psionic principles. An easy example is Robin Hobb's Assassin series, where both The Skill and The Wit are psionics in the sense RPGs use the term, but are &quot;magic&quot; within the setting, which does have other forms of magic (albeit this doesn't really become clear until much later).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9670100, member: 18"] I don't think anyone goes "yum" about psionics getting called "magic" except people who genuinely don't like psionics, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Personally I don't have a huge problem with that term being used*, but I do think the clunky slot-based nature of spells in D&D, especially 5E is very poorly suited to fantasy depictions of psionics. But it's rather poorly suited to most fantasy depictions of magic, too! So maybe everyone has to suck it with a pretty bad magic system until 6E comes around? * = Primarily because I've seen plenty of good fantasy novels where they had powers that people colloquially or generally called "magic", but which operated on psionic principles. An easy example is Robin Hobb's Assassin series, where both The Skill and The Wit are psionics in the sense RPGs use the term, but are "magic" within the setting, which does have other forms of magic (albeit this doesn't really become clear until much later). [/QUOTE]

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