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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8094642" data-attributes="member: 6701124">There's a lot in this thread about what various people wanted from psionics in 5e and aren't getting.But I'm not sure why they want them.That is, I've played since 1e, read sci-fi, and read comic books with telepaths... but what is the particular appeal that everyone sees in psionics that leads to their desired outcome in 5e?Is it to play a certain archetype from fiction?Is it to enable interplay with the far realms?Is it to do stories of the gith?Is it to recreate some past beloved PC from a previous edition?Is it to have powers but not be magic just for a change?Is it to have powers that can stomp on magic?Is it to have an alternate power set up to magic but not be any better?Is it to have a third (fourth?) kind of magic?Is it to get a sci-fi feeling?</blockquote>