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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6909993" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Subtle Spell doesn't fix the issues unfortunately, because it doesn't compute that the Magic Feather peasant has to spend two levels chanting mumbo jumbo before he picks up Subtle Spell--it's not plausible that he wouldn't catch on that it's the chanting and not the magic feather that's doing the work. From a game balance perspective it's also a little bit offensive that Spider Man Sorcerer or Magic Feather Peasant has to be constantly burning sorcery points on Subtle Spell just to make his aesthetics fit the concept. I think it works better as an at-will feature; instead of paying on an ad hoc basis with sorcery points, you should just pay for it once in class features.Here's my stab at the concept: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?492209-New-Sorcerer-Archetype-Instinctual" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?492209-New-Sorcerer-Archetype-Instinctual</a>BTW, &quot;doesn't require components&quot; is not a psionics-specific thing. If it did, Medusas and especially Beholders would be psionic, not magical. Historically, the difference between psionics and magic was primarily about the power source. Psionics is fueled entirely by yourself (effects tend to be low-energy; no AoE Fireballs, and psionic telekinesis is more likely to lift a few pounds than a thousand-pound boulder) whereas magic is fueled by an external energy source. Thus, there is no such thing as an &quot;anti-psionics field&quot; but there are anti-magic fields. You can't cut someone off from their self.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6909993, member: 6787650"] Subtle Spell doesn't fix the issues unfortunately, because it doesn't compute that the Magic Feather peasant has to spend two levels chanting mumbo jumbo before he picks up Subtle Spell--it's not plausible that he wouldn't catch on that it's the chanting and not the magic feather that's doing the work. From a game balance perspective it's also a little bit offensive that Spider Man Sorcerer or Magic Feather Peasant has to be constantly burning sorcery points on Subtle Spell just to make his aesthetics fit the concept. I think it works better as an at-will feature; instead of paying on an ad hoc basis with sorcery points, you should just pay for it once in class features. Here's my stab at the concept: [URL]http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?492209-New-Sorcerer-Archetype-Instinctual[/URL] BTW, "doesn't require components" is not a psionics-specific thing. If it did, Medusas and especially Beholders would be psionic, not magical. Historically, the difference between psionics and magic was primarily about the power source. Psionics is fueled entirely by yourself (effects tend to be low-energy; no AoE Fireballs, and psionic telekinesis is more likely to lift a few pounds than a thousand-pound boulder) whereas magic is fueled by an external energy source. Thus, there is no such thing as an "anti-psionics field" but there are anti-magic fields. You can't cut someone off from their self. [/QUOTE]

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