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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8558236" data-attributes="member: 58172">The way I look at it is, the Sorcerer concept is about a physical body that is magical. Psionics is about a conscious mind that is magically powerful, in the sense of mind over matter.Neither should use material components. In the case of the Sorcerer, the body itself is like a magic wand, a living spell focus.In the case of psionics, the mind wills a magic effect into existence, directly. The wish becomes true. There is no external source nor intermediary tool.The Aberrant Sorcerer is a weird overlap, because the body itself is partly Aberration, thus the body itself, especially the brain, has innate spellcasting that is psionic. The farrealm is pure thought, but mutates a material body to incarnate that thought. So the body of the Sorcerer is imbued with ambient farrealm psionics.There can be creatures that have minds but not brains. In an animistic view, a certain rock might have a mind with a powerful psionic influence, but its body is a normal rock.This relates somewhat to the D&D concept of a psionic disembodied mind that is pure mind without any body or brain.As an astral being, an angel is made out of thought, namely a thought construct, an "intellect". In 1e, celestials and fiends are similarly psionic, relating to the astral plane as a realm of thoughts.In sum, the Sorcerer is about body, and psionics is about mind.</blockquote>