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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8098386" data-attributes="member: 23751">Correct."Eye Rays. The beholder shoots three of the following magical eye rays at random..."Not relevant.  Spell like abilities are watermelons and psionics are oranges.  It's a False Equivalence to equate spell like abilities to powers(spells).Not the Beholder version.  The behold version is explicitly not psionic. All psionic abilities are marked as such.In action?  Maybe, maybe not.  Psionics and magic can both produce similar results.Unless they go the 3e route and make psionics a different kind of magic other than spells.  Like...........powers.Do you even read the monster descriptions?  The eye rays are magical per RAW.You can find no difference between spells and powers(not spells)?  You can find no difference between spells(not magical abilities which are a different mechanic) and powers? The reason you aren't finding any difference is that you are deliberately not looking.It leaves us with you being factually wrong that psionics cannot be something other than magic.  They can be magic or something that isn't magic, but which produces some similar results to magical spells and abilities.</blockquote>