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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6670595" data-attributes="member: 6777454">Pretty much exactly how I would have answered them.The problem with Psionics has always been that adding them later always made they got a free ride on a lot of things. Because magic is what the designers had in mind, when they wanted to nullify miraculous effects they nullify &quot;magic&quot;. To say that something can do everything magic can do but is not technically magic in order to side-step everything in the game designed to resist, stop, nullify or otherwise prevent miraculous things that could potentially be auto-wins regardless of other game mechanics (&quot;I teleport him into the middle of the wall! I open a rift in space under his feet! I turn him to stone!&quot; &quot;I take over her mind and force her to jump into the lava.&quot;) or otherwise defeat puzzles with one easy cheat (&quot;I teleport out of the dungeon!&quot; &quot;I put the giant statue in my pocket dimension!&quot; &quot;I shrink the bolder in the way to a pebble and kick it out of the way.&quot;) and when those blockers are there to prevent that sort of stuff from being done, saying &quot;well, technically what I am doing isn't magic so because you didn't specifically mention stopping psionics and force powers and glamor and every other imaginable synonym for magic, you can still do all those things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 6670595, member: 6777454"] Pretty much exactly how I would have answered them. The problem with Psionics has always been that adding them later always made they got a free ride on a lot of things. Because magic is what the designers had in mind, when they wanted to nullify miraculous effects they nullify "magic". To say that something can do everything magic can do but is not technically magic in order to side-step everything in the game designed to resist, stop, nullify or otherwise prevent miraculous things that could potentially be auto-wins regardless of other game mechanics ("I teleport him into the middle of the wall! I open a rift in space under his feet! I turn him to stone!" "I take over her mind and force her to jump into the lava.") or otherwise defeat puzzles with one easy cheat ("I teleport out of the dungeon!" "I put the giant statue in my pocket dimension!" "I shrink the bolder in the way to a pebble and kick it out of the way.") and when those blockers are there to prevent that sort of stuff from being done, saying "well, technically what I am doing isn't magic so because you didn't specifically mention stopping psionics and force powers and glamor and every other imaginable synonym for magic, you can still do all those things. [/QUOTE]

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