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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3250860" data-attributes="member: 9254">I like psionics for plot reasons.  In many campaigns arcane magic is controlled by the gods (The Weave in FR, Moons in DL, etc).  Gods can withhold power from the mortal races at will.  Matter of fact, somatic, material, and verbal components are things the gods taught to make magic easier to use at the cost of being easy to stop.  Psionics, however, is magic originating within mortals themselves.  The  gods can interfere with it (global anti-psionic field) but it is so much effort the gods don't do it.  Instead the divinities work through their mortal intermediaries.  Psionicists are mistrusted, often represented as witches or warlocks ("Godless magic!"), and the priests and wizards tend to bring what political pressure they have to drive them out.  They are outcasts who portray themselves as sorcerors, or even go whole hog as warlocks and witches who gained their power from nefarious sources, rather than reveal their true source of power.   Remote pocket communities train their offspring in the mental arts and long for the day they are in such numbers that they cannot be supressed anymore.  The XPH psionic mechanics are one way to implement the growth of thematic powers that some systems had in spell-chains.  It works out well for characters who are going to have a distinctive theme.   Psi-warriors fit in pretty easily as a self-augmenting fighter/caster class.  They can always use feats to pick up powers not on their list later.</blockquote>

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