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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8101513" data-attributes="member: 23751">Your conflating somatic components with flashing lights, odors and other psionic displays which have nothing to do with that.  In 5e the ONLY components are verbal, somatic(finger/hand movements) and material.  Displays are none of those three.Nothing on that page says that you can fluff explicit hand/finger movements as anything else. You can of course make a house rule that somatic components can be replaced with some sort of display, but that's only for your personal game.  The Artificer has a Specific Rule that allows it to cast spells in a completely different way.  It does not use somatic components differently.  It avoids them altogether, using tools for the whole shabang.By the way, the Artificer getting a unique casting mechanic just supports my side of things.  There's precedent for giving Psions a completely new way to cast spells.Here's the rule on what Somatic components are in 5e."SOMATIC (S)Spellcasting gestures might include a forceful gesticulation or an intricate set of gestures. If a spell requires a somatic component, the caster must have free use of at least one hand to perform these gestures."As you can see, if it's not a gesture, it's not a somatic component.  And displays are not gestures.</blockquote>