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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 6670409" data-attributes="member: 7635">Psionics (as it stands right now) main weakness is the wonky concentration rules, since EVERYTHING they do is concentration-based. Ergo, the easiest way to break a psionic effect is to break the mystic using it. It doesn't appear there will be any rules for long-term effects independent of the mystic, so dispel magic and detect magic aren't even all that useful when dealing with them. Then again, we've probably seen 1/10th of the system...As for the rest, my resistance to labeling it magic is that when you do, you start to imply a lot of magic-rules onto it. If its magical, can you detect or dispel it? Does it work in anti-magic, dead magic, or wild magic zones? Does Magic Resistance apply? What about a raksasha's magic immunity? Can you use it to make magic items? What if I get a wand of the war mage (which adds +1 to my spell attacks) does it work with psionics? Can a psionic character use scrolls? Can he attune to a wand of polymorph or a wand of paralysis (prereq: Any spellcaster)? Could a mystic/sorcerer use metamagic with psionics? Can a bard learn psionics with Magical Secrets? By starting with a position that is not magic but something equally supernatural, you avoid assumptions. It sets its own rules that way. In appearance, they look like magic, but they are something else entirely.</blockquote>