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<blockquote data-quote="Votan" data-source="post: 1563792" data-attributes="member: 18680">I actually quite like the &quot;look and feel&quot; of psionics in the expanded psionics handbook.&nbsp; It is very different than arcane magic but in a good way.&nbsp; It ends up feeling more like a lot of ficitonal magic (and is extremely close to systems like Julian May's and actually feels more like Robert Jordan's magic than the core mages do).&nbsp; The Augmentation ability of a psion is a mixture of metamagic and higher level spells and can be directly compared to neither.&nbsp; The psion gains the ability to amplify powers beyond what a 2nd level spell could be amplified to in other systems but loses the automatic scaling of arcane magic (no level dependent effects).&nbsp; Sure there are some things that psionics does better than arcane magic.&nbsp; There are things that arcane magic does a lot better than psionics (see 9th level arcane spells).&nbsp;&nbsp; It would ahve been impossible to clone the system and get the same results.&nbsp; Instead they created something new that balances differently then core.&nbsp; But it seems balanced -- I see it both as a player and a DM and it does not dominate.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Votan, post: 1563792, member: 18680"] I actually quite like the "look and feel" of psionics in the expanded psionics handbook. It is very different than arcane magic but in a good way. It ends up feeling more like a lot of ficitonal magic (and is extremely close to systems like Julian May's and actually feels more like Robert Jordan's magic than the core mages do). The Augmentation ability of a psion is a mixture of metamagic and higher level spells and can be directly compared to neither. The psion gains the ability to amplify powers beyond what a 2nd level spell could be amplified to in other systems but loses the automatic scaling of arcane magic (no level dependent effects). Sure there are some things that psionics does better than arcane magic. There are things that arcane magic does a lot better than psionics (see 9th level arcane spells). It would ahve been impossible to clone the system and get the same results. Instead they created something new that balances differently then core. But it seems balanced -- I see it both as a player and a DM and it does not dominate. [/QUOTE]

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