General Consensus on Purely Mental Actions?

[Crothian]

You mean apart from it not requiring any outward activity?

Where are you getting that? There is no definition of a purely mental based action in either the DMG or PHB that I can find.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Where are you getting that? There is no definition of a purely mental based action in either the DMG or PHB that I can find.

Because there isn't (AFAIK).

Personally, I think it's funny to allow psionic powers etc. but not spells using material components etc.
That way, psionics are even better than magic, which they are anyway - that ruling notwithstanding.

IMHO doing more than "thinking" (and manifesting a power is more than that) isn't "puerly mental".

 

[Crothian]

Are psionic powers defined as being purely mental? I don't own that book.

 

[James McMurray]

Do we really need a definition? Anything that is nonphysical is pretty obviously purely mental.

 

[Thanee]

For what it's worth, the XPH does state basically, that manifesting a psionic power is a purely mental activity (Schism power).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Crothian]

Do we really need a definition? Anything that is nonphysical is pretty obviously purely mental.

d20 is about definitions so yes we do.

 

[Scion]

d20 is about definitions so yes we do.

SRD:
Spell-like abilities:
A spell-like ability has no verbal, somatic, or material component, nor does it require a focus or have an XP cost. The user activates it mentally.


Is this sufficient?

 

[Crothian]

SRD:
Spell-like abilities:
A spell-like ability has no verbal, somatic, or material component, nor does it require a focus or have an XP cost. The user activates it mentally.


Is this sufficient?

But what does a mental action mean? All types of actions are well defined and mental actions are not listed among them.

 

[James McMurray]

Then obviously they don't exist, and all references to them are editorial mistakes.

 

[Crothian]

Which is very possible. There obviously is an error with them or there wouldn't be so many questions and so much confusion about them.