What is Psionics?

[KahnyaGnorc]

kyrt-ryder wrote:

PIXIE DUST wrote:

^^^ this :P

Honestly in 3.5 I found that Psionics and Shadowcasting (from Tome of Magic) were some of the most balanced forms of casting xD

D20-Spellcasting + Psionics + Martial Initiators = Balanced Game

So, Pathfinder - Spellcasters + Dreamscarred = balanced?

[kyrt-ryder]

Essentially. I haven't read their take on Incarnum yet [dunno if it's been completed.]

[DungeonmasterCal]

kyrt-ryder wrote:

Essentially. I haven't read their take on Incarnum yet [dunno if it's been completed.]

I think they've completed one class, the Vizier. It's list of powers and such can be found over at d20pfsrd.com

[Kirth Gersen]

Devil's Advocate wrote:

Unlike D&D's Vancian magic system, which was lifted directly from a science fiction novel and appears nowhere else in literature or mythology...

Well, except magic very explicitly works that way in Zelazny's second Amber pentalogy. And "memorizing spells" from a spellbook is all over John Bellairs' The Face in the Frost. (Gygax also cited the first Amber series and TFitF as influences on D&D, along with Vance).

And so on.