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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 8596224" data-attributes="member: 58172">[USER=6877472]@James Gasik[/USER]<img src="https://www.enworld.org/attachments/psionics1-jpg.154876/" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Notably, according to 3e FR, psionics is magic ("exactly as magic"). Psionic spells and arcane spells are both simply magic spells. This 3e tradition is where 4e core and 5e core are coming from as well. Psionic is one of the sources of magic.Nevertheless, I find the psionic mind manifesting a personal Weave to be an intriguing concept.What are the mechanical implications, if a "tear in the Weave" cannot affect the Weave around the mind because the mind continually emanates it?In 5e, Dispel Magic causes a spell to "end". In other words, one spell effect undoes an other spell effect.By contrast, an Antimagic Field works differently. It doesnt end an spell but causes a spell to be "suppressed". Moreover, the kind of spell that gets suppressed is the one that relies on the Weave, namely "the magical energy that suffuses the multiverse".The psionic aura of each mind differs from this multiversal energy.Arguably, the Antimagic Field is unable to suppress a psionic aura. Thus as long as the psionic spell effects remain within the aura, the spell effects function normally. Psionic spells ignore Antimagic  Fields.But because psionic spells are normal spells, the effects can be dispelled normally by other spells.I am unsure if it is worth maintaining such a mechanical distinction, especially if only one spell, Antimagic Field, is relevant to the distinction.  But it calls attention to how the psionic and arcane sources differ from each other.A personal aura of mental influence feels psionic to me. The radius might be 10 feet or an entire domain, but a mind at the center feels psionic.</blockquote>

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