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<blockquote data-quote="Tales and Chronicles" data-source="post: 7410609" data-attributes="member: 6871653">And that would all be well and good if the Psion was in the PHB and subsequent books would be built with the idea that there's a type of magic that requires different features to interact with. But for now, if psionic powers are impossible to detect and cant be affected by magical counters, there's a lot of monsters in the MM that are render useless because they have absolutely no way to counter or impact the manifesting of psionic powers. That not disturbing when fighting wolves and goblins, but it is ridiculous to think that a lich would be unable to counter the powers of a psion while she could protect herself against weapon and spells. It could be a strange tell, the 4e luminous circle thing over the head or glowing eyes, but it needs to be spotted and interacted with. If not it render many classes obsolete just by existing. Even more if they go with the disciplines that are pure copy-cat of existing spells, so it becomes magic-without-the-restrictions. Why would somebody pick a wizard over a Mystic that can manifest exactly the same powers (under different names), but with d8 HP, armor, no spell components etc?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tales and Chronicles, post: 7410609, member: 6871653"] And that would all be well and good if the Psion was in the PHB and subsequent books would be built with the idea that there's a type of magic that requires different features to interact with. But for now, if psionic powers are impossible to detect and cant be affected by magical counters, there's a lot of monsters in the MM that are render useless because they have absolutely no way to counter or impact the manifesting of psionic powers. That not disturbing when fighting wolves and goblins, but it is ridiculous to think that a lich would be unable to counter the powers of a psion while she could protect herself against weapon and spells. It could be a strange tell, the 4e luminous circle thing over the head or glowing eyes, but it needs to be spotted and interacted with. If not it render many classes obsolete just by existing. Even more if they go with the disciplines that are pure copy-cat of existing spells, so it becomes magic-without-the-restrictions. Why would somebody pick a wizard over a Mystic that can manifest exactly the same powers (under different names), but with d8 HP, armor, no spell components etc? [/QUOTE]

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