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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7446780" data-attributes="member: 996">It's just that it's redundant, because psionics was only ever magic re-skinned for use in sci-fi, so when D&amp;D 'mashed up' fantasy &amp; sci-fi (because it was the 70s, and that was just the tenor of the times, I guess) by including both, they were really just including magic, twice, but with different mechanics.If MM keeps trying to design psionics 'efficiently,' by re-using existing sub-systems that could do the job, it'll just be another redundant caster with a re-shuffled spell list and, if it's luckier than the Sorcerer, some spells unique to it, in a game already dealing with a surfeit of caster options.&nbsp; If he bites the bulette and gives it a mechanically distinct sub-system, and leaves it open to being &quot;not magic,&quot; it'll at least avoid the appearance of redundancy.&nbsp; And, seriously, I think fans of psionics /want/ the mechanical distinctions, every prior version of psionics has had 'em - &quot;power points,&quot; for instance, at the absolute least.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7446780, member: 996"] It's just that it's redundant, because psionics was only ever magic re-skinned for use in sci-fi, so when D&D 'mashed up' fantasy & sci-fi (because it was the 70s, and that was just the tenor of the times, I guess) by including both, they were really just including magic, twice, but with different mechanics. If MM keeps trying to design psionics 'efficiently,' by re-using existing sub-systems that could do the job, it'll just be another redundant caster with a re-shuffled spell list and, if it's luckier than the Sorcerer, some spells unique to it, in a game already dealing with a surfeit of caster options. If he bites the bulette and gives it a mechanically distinct sub-system, and leaves it open to being "not magic," it'll at least avoid the appearance of redundancy. And, seriously, I think fans of psionics /want/ the mechanical distinctions, every prior version of psionics has had 'em - "power points," for instance, at the absolute least. [/QUOTE]

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