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In your Years of Gaming, How many Psionic Characters did you See played
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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7868094" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>I'm not sure this is proving what you want to prove. 5e at the time of the mind flayer's design lacks a distinct subsystem for psionic so, of course, they're given abilities like other spell casting monsters. There's no alternative. And, you're right, you wouldn't know they are psionicists - they might as well be using magic. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there's the problem. You have a monster that could be distinctly weirder (as they were kind of in 1e) if a subsystem existed that made them clearly different. But lacking that, you lack that ability to put them apart in that way. The same will be true of the classes - why call one a psionicist if he's pretty much just a sorcerer?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Paizo tried to deal with this with their occult classes. Some of them have powers that would be modeled via psionic powers, particularly the mesmerist. They've got alternative spell components to mirror the VSM. And they might as well just be another caster as far as how they play. Not really much of an alternative. Some of the classes feel sufficiently distinct, others don't. I'm not a fan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 7868094, member: 3400"] I'm not sure this is proving what you want to prove. 5e at the time of the mind flayer's design lacks a distinct subsystem for psionic so, of course, they're given abilities like other spell casting monsters. There's no alternative. And, you're right, you wouldn't know they are psionicists - they might as well be using magic. And there's the problem. You have a monster that could be distinctly weirder (as they were kind of in 1e) if a subsystem existed that made them clearly different. But lacking that, you lack that ability to put them apart in that way. The same will be true of the classes - why call one a psionicist if he's pretty much just a sorcerer? Paizo tried to deal with this with their occult classes. Some of them have powers that would be modeled via psionic powers, particularly the mesmerist. They've got alternative spell components to mirror the VSM. And they might as well just be another caster as far as how they play. Not really much of an alternative. Some of the classes feel sufficiently distinct, others don't. I'm not a fan. [/QUOTE]
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