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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8983168" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yeah that's what I originally said - there's a definite similarity between 2E AD&D Psionics and The Small Science.</p><p></p><p>If you take out the telepathy (and related powers), pretty much everything else a 2E Psioncist could do is something a Grisha could do albeit most Grisha are limited to one Discipline (as I think they're called in 2E), and Grisha powers tend to be more powerful in combat than D&D ones (again because they're "balanced" for a setting where a Grisha may well get shot dead at any moment - and they do get shot - a lot), but are often much slower out of it. They can sustain their powers much longer than Psionicists generally could though.</p><p></p><p>But D&D magic is mostly what the Grishaverse would call <em>Merzost</em> (abomination), because it warps reality, brings new entirely things into being, gives things life (rather than just impacting their existing biological processes), communes with other planes, and so on. Even a cantrip like Prestidigitation would be the equivalent of <em>Merzost</em>, or maybe a Fabrikator on Jurda Parem (a drug that elevates them to godlike power), because it's instant. Could a Fabrikator recolour a dress, say? Yes, but - it would take minutes to hours of work, and they'd need something to dye it with. But a D&D Wizard wishes they could stop hearts as fast and reliably as a Heartrender.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8983168, member: 18"] Yeah that's what I originally said - there's a definite similarity between 2E AD&D Psionics and The Small Science. If you take out the telepathy (and related powers), pretty much everything else a 2E Psioncist could do is something a Grisha could do albeit most Grisha are limited to one Discipline (as I think they're called in 2E), and Grisha powers tend to be more powerful in combat than D&D ones (again because they're "balanced" for a setting where a Grisha may well get shot dead at any moment - and they do get shot - a lot), but are often much slower out of it. They can sustain their powers much longer than Psionicists generally could though. But D&D magic is mostly what the Grishaverse would call [I]Merzost[/I] (abomination), because it warps reality, brings new entirely things into being, gives things life (rather than just impacting their existing biological processes), communes with other planes, and so on. Even a cantrip like Prestidigitation would be the equivalent of [I]Merzost[/I], or maybe a Fabrikator on Jurda Parem (a drug that elevates them to godlike power), because it's instant. Could a Fabrikator recolour a dress, say? Yes, but - it would take minutes to hours of work, and they'd need something to dye it with. But a D&D Wizard wishes they could stop hearts as fast and reliably as a Heartrender. [/QUOTE]
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