Stormborn
Explorer
Check out reviews of The Psychic's Handbook here on EnWorld. Those do a better job of explaining than I would. I will say, that the system is more faithful tot he depiction of psychics in most works of fiction, and in the real world if you happen to credit such things. It overall makes more sense to me. Rather than having a grab bag of tricks that a psionic character can pull off that ultimatelly aren't that different from magic spells, the skill based system encourages specialization (so that one person might be pyrokenetic, another a telepath, another a telekenetic) and demonstrates that these things take effort in a way that, I feel, the WotC psionic system does not. Basically it comes down to feel. The Psychic's Handbook is meant to show that psychic abilities are different than magic as normally used in d20.
