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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2623932" data-attributes="member: 5143">Well, it creates the same effects, because there are only so many effects to be had.  Basically, almost every effect you can think of falls under one of the schools of magic.Also, psionics creates almost identical effects to spells due to the same reason.  It's really the game mechanics behind it and the flavor of it that makes the difference.A wizard looks through his spellbook, prepares his spell with words of power and waving his hands then channels magic later in the day the same way.A sorcerer does it the same way, except he channels magic through himself with the gestures and words as a focal point.A psion taps into the power of his mind to grasp the power there, his eyes glow.The soulmeld user reaches into the pool of souls that exists all around them, grasps a creature's soul he recognizes, twists it, shapes it, turns it into a helmet that he can wear and attaches it onto his own soul.Of course the end effect between all of them is the same, they shoot a bolt of acid at someone.Also, I agree that Visionaries seems to be the closest reference to the way this works, I thought of the same thing when I read it, not exactly the same, but similar.  For those who don't know it was a cartoon about people in a world where all techology stopped working and magic suddenly appeared.  They had sort of suits of armor that looked a lot like platemail that got possessed by animal totems.  This would allow them to transform into their animal totem.</blockquote>

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