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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vael" data-source="post: 7864174" data-attributes="member: 57043">Well, first, little roleplaying hooks are in a lot of subclasses to give them flavour. Tables of Quirks, for example. So having a fun little item can help a player define their character.Second, having an object to focus on makes a lot of sense. Meditation often involves mantra or having an object to focus your attention on, one could say that all this time meditating, staring at a trinket has imbued it with a sliver of your psionic psyche, or at least linked it to yourself.Or perhaps it's like the personal totems from Inception? After all, if a Psionicist is going to spend a lot of time focusing their mind, spending time in their "Mind Palace", having an object that exists to anchor you to reality and not your internal reality might be a good thing?Just some ideas, but may I suggest, that rather than just be dismissive towards an unexpected idea, perhaps take a moment to actually think about it?As for mechanical benefits, the main bonus now, is you have an arcane focus that doesn't need to be held (just needs to be on your person) to function. So those other wizards need either material components or need to wave around a wand or staff, while you don't have to. Which, sure, doesn't get you all the way to Professor X just touching his forehead, but it still sets you apart from the other Wizards. Which, ultimately, is the point. This isn't a Psion, it's a Wizard that studies Psionics.</blockquote>

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