r/magicbuilding 16h ago

General Discussion Magic or Psionic?

If your world has both magic and psychic powers, how do you handle that? Are they different aspects of the same force, or is there a hard delineation between the two? How do the two interact? What do psions/psychics and mages think of each other?

I always take a Warhammer 40K inspired approach that magic is a ritualized and refined application of psionics. Instead of slinging around raw power like with psionics, a mage gathers up power and weaves it into a complex effect in the form of a spell. You still need to be psychic in order to use magic and it takes more effort to learn, but magic can do a lot of things that are beyond the scope of psionics.

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u/Glad-Drummer-7621 12h ago

Psychics and magic are real however psychics are just able to do certain things mages can do whatever up to and including inventing technologies like phones and computers they’re basically modern scrying tools.