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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8819684" data-attributes="member: 23751">Paladins in 5e draw their power from their oaths, but that power still comes from outside, not inside.  The oath allows them to draw from outside divine power.The mind is a powerful thing, and a psion's mind is more powerful than most.  And grows stronger as they gain levels. They draw upon themselves only.  In D&D and even in sci-fi, thought can be energy or perhaps converted into energy.Or they are converting their mental energy into other kinds of energy, just like physical(kinetic) energy can be converted into electricity. It doesn't have to be a cheat.And before you say that the mind doesn't have that kind of energy, I think it would be hubris to think that we humans have detected everything there is to our universe and have nothing left to find out.  In fact there have been multiple(though rare) instances of doctors declaring brain death, because we could not detect any brain activity, just to have that person wake up later, sometimes having heard the doctor give the order to take them off of life support.  There has to be some energy in the brain that we can't detect yet in order for that to have happened.3e did a good job of making it mechanically different from divine and arcane magic.</blockquote>