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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Perun" data-source="post: 7971009" data-attributes="member: 6037">I would actually love if 5E psionics brought back psionic combat, but I won't hold my breath. I think it would be considered too complex for the game <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Magic duels (or combat) is also something I've been hoping for since 3e was announced, but no such luck. The 3e counterspelling and 5E counterspell spell give some options, but I'd prefer something more memorable.As for skills and feats for using psionic powers.. I could see ti working, but I don't think the designers will go for that. Then again, what do I know... Where I find the system tricky is you need to roll a skill or ability check to see if the skill/power actually works, and you can fail right there. If you also require an attack roll or a save, that's another opportunity for the power to fail. I can't check at the moment, but I think there are very few spells in the game that require, for example, both an attack roll and a saving throw. So, if you make a system where only the psion rolls for effect (say, a charm person-like power), and don't let the target have any rolls, it would probably be accepted really well by the players -- as success or failure is fully in their hands; however if the DM used a psionic NPC using those same powers, the players would likely feel cheated, for the same reason -- they, as the target, have no ability to avoid the effect.  This is just the first thing that came to mind. It might be an issue, or not. Just the way I see things <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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