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So yeah, as the subject sort of suggests, I'm wondering how Psychic Spellcasting interacts with the Manipulate trait.
Since the Remaster basically replaced verbal, somatic, and material components with the manipulate trait in regard to all spells. The thing that makes this confusing for me, at least, is that the Psychic's Psychic Spellcasting ability is supposed to swap verbal components for the Concentrate trait or material components with simple gesture somatic components.
So, what I'm basically asking is, does Psychic Spellcasting make it so Psychic's occult spells no longer have the manipulate trait, or do they still have it?
Really, this is more me wanting so kind of clarification, since the Remaster Errata for Dark Archives doesn't mention anything about it, so if my Psychic finds themself in Reactive Strike range, I want to know where or not I need to Step if I don't want to get beat up for trying to cast a spell.
I'm also aware that Reactive Strike isn't as terrifying as it might first appear, but I'd still like it if there was some clarification.
Somatic Components on spells effectively became the Manipulate trait on spells. Nothing on Psychic removes Somatic components or the Manipulate trait, so nothing changes there. Psychic only altered Verbal (which is now Concentrate anyway) and Material components (which don't really exist now).
ie: If you're casting a Remaster spell with Manipulate, you keep it. If you're casting a Legacy spell with Somatic, it's Manipulate (which Somatic had anyway so nothing really changed).
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Replacing verbal components with mental ones just means you don't have to speak out loud to cast spells. It never changed traits, since both verbal and mental components had Concentrate and both somatic and material components had Manipulate.
It's not a particular powerful ability, but it isn't trying to be.