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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6279168" data-attributes="member: 8461">Huh? You're equating being a spellcaster with having psionic powers? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/worried.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":-S" title="Uhm    :-S" data-shortname=":-S" />Your answer here seems to be "just make stuff up," since these "disadvantages" aren't part of Unearthed Arcana's <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/buildingCharacters/characterFlaws.htm" target="_blank">character flaws</a>. So right off the bat this doesn't work under the current system.Leaving aside that the "under my rules" bit seems to indicate that you're essentially departing from the existing rules, which sort of defeats the point of this exercise, this showcases how people who say "just use spellcasting for other supernatural powers" are using flawed logic.Spider-Man isn't a spellcaster; neither is this character. Spellcasting has very clear analogues for what's happening in the game world, and this doesn't match with my character concept. He's not making clearly-visible somatic gestures. He's not speaking verbal components out loud. He's not using material foci. The "Natural Talent" feat that turns all of these into spell-like abilities seems to be entirely made up, as I couldn't find it in Pathfinder or v.3.5.The use of Superior Unarmed Strike (from Tome of Battle) might work - though DR will be a problem - but underlines how you seem to be unabashedly mixing d20 Modern, Pathfinder, and v.3.5 in with your home-brewed material.Source or it doesn't exist.The fact that he's taking spells at all is a severe compromise to the character concept.My concept of "psionic powers" is "not spells" for one thing.It's a major problem. Let's look at just how much you're having to bend the rules to make the character you're outlining:1) "Disadvantages" that are completely home-brewed.2) A Pathfinder sorcerer, with the "necrotic" bloodline (source?)3) The feats True Necromancer (source?), Natural Talent (source?), Blood Sorcery (source?), Improved Unarmed Strike (v.3.5/Pathfinder), Superior Unarmed Strike (Tome of Battle), Brawler (d20 Modern), and Lethal Weapon (source?). Several of these appear to be completely home-brewed.And even then, you've severely crippled the concept by equating magic with both psionics and negative energy channeling.In short, your solution is to severely bend some rules, make up new ones, and twist what represents what. This isn't the character concept I outlined - it is, at best, a poor imitation.I agree only in that I find treating psionics as being magic to be a real problem.Most of this isn't an issue with representation, so much as it is with the issues you have with certain combinations. That's beyond what's being discussed here, however.None of those ways work, which is why you seem to keep citing material that doesn't seem to exist outside of your game. I suppose if you want to add in hand-waving away the problems, then you can resolve the issue, but that's true for everything (and still doesn't seem to be working very well).It's not only not easy, but you've failed entirely in meeting it across twenty levels, let alone first.Oh, you've established that very clearly. I'm talking about using either v.3.5 or Pathfinder (with no mixing between the two). You're talking about...something else.</blockquote>

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