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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 7673469" data-attributes="member: 7635">Partially, but the effects a psionic power and a wizard spell should be different too. Psionics shouldn't raise (or animate) the dead. They don't summon creatures, nor bring down meteors from the heavens. What they should be doing is focusing on mind influence (reading thought, implanting false memories, dominating minds), supernatural feats of the body (grafting weapons, withstanding unbearable conditions), and extrasensory abilities (reading auras, causing objects to spontaneously combust, and making objects move by force of will alone). Additionally, a psionic power has no verbal or somatic components, nor does it require material objects to use. Its not just magic with spell points, though magic has done a good job of mimicking psionic ability. The same can be said of any class really; imagine if ranger had been some fighter subclass or druid players being told "play a nature domain cleric." One need only see how warlord fans felt after the battlemaster.Cleric magic is the same as wizard magic; each spell belongs to a school, they use components, there are a lot of crossover effects, and most healers in fantasy are called "wizards", so cleric should just be a subclass of wizard, right?Of course not. Cleric means something to the game. Psionics means something to the game. You can use reduction-logic to argue ANY class should just be a subclass of Fighter and/or Wizard if you want, but doing so defeats D&D's tradition. Psionics has NEVER been a type of magic, psions never a type of sorcerer or wizard. Trying to fit them in this box now is a disservice.</blockquote>

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