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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 9069050" data-attributes="member: 27957">Personally, I don't have a beef with the existence of psionics per se. I have a beef with the requirements for &quot;real psionics&quot; that a lot of psionics fans will list. Stuff like that it should be free of VSM components, because it's purely magic of the mind, or that it should be an entirely different category than &quot;magic&quot;, meaning all the existing bonuses to resist magical effects don't apply.That's the sort of stuff that just completely ruins game balance if it were to be instituted. I feel that if psionics is to ever really have a place then it has to meet 5e on its own terms and be an integrated part of the game system. Like, magic is magic so spells and psionics are interoperable even if they have different mechanics, because psionics is a different way to access magic rather than an entirely different category of effect. Or that psionic effects manifest in a more anime way, where you have to shout the ability name and light up in a glowing halo of psionic bleed off when you use it, roughly matching spells in their blatancy.The fact that these are deal breakers for so many people is a good part of why nothing ever made it past UA testing besides the Tasha's Cauldron subclasses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 9069050, member: 27957"] Personally, I don't have a beef with the existence of psionics [I]per se[/I]. I have a beef with the requirements for "real psionics" that a lot of psionics fans will list. Stuff like that it should be free of VSM components, because it's purely magic of the mind, or that it should be an entirely different category than "magic", meaning all the existing bonuses to resist magical effects don't apply. That's the sort of stuff that just completely ruins game balance if it were to be instituted. I feel that if psionics is to ever really have a place then it has to meet 5e on its own terms and be an integrated part of the game system. Like, magic is magic so spells and psionics are interoperable even if they have different mechanics, because psionics is a different way to [I]access[/I] magic rather than an entirely different category of effect. Or that psionic effects manifest in a more anime way, where you have to shout the ability name and light up in a glowing halo of psionic bleed off when you use it, roughly matching spells in their blatancy. The fact that these are deal breakers for so many people is a good part of why nothing ever made it past UA testing besides the [I]Tasha's Cauldron[/I] subclasses. [/QUOTE]

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