Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 6174046" data-attributes="member: 1879">Psionics are obviously a supernatural power. (If you want to argue otherwise I'll be happy to watch you demonstrate telekinesis.)With that in mind (no pun intended) the question of whether or not a Psion is it's own class depends on whether or not their powers are mechanically different enough to warrent another class. In Arcana Unearthed frex Psions are Mind Witches and are lumped into the Witch class along with Wind, Wood, Winter, Fire and Iron witches. But it you ask one of them they'll tell you they don't cast spells and aren't magic users. Likewise can the average peseant, or you for that matter, tell the difference between pyrokinesis or a still, silenced scorching ray or fireball? No? If the guy who can incinerate your house with a thought calls himself a Wizard, a Psion or a the Queen of May you're unlikely to argue. I honestly don't see any need to split out psionics from magic, half of the magic in that Grand Father of D&D The Lord of the Rings are classic psionic powers, telepathy, mind probing, foresight, clairvoyance. For that matter the distinction might not even be clear within the world. How exactly do a self-taught Wilder and a self-taught Sorcerer know their power sources are different?So for me it comes down the crunch rather than the fluff. If a Psion is different enough to warrant their own class they should have their own class. If it's just a magic with a slightly different spell list and casting mechanic then by all means lump it in.</blockquote>

Verification