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DwarfFighter
2020-11-10, 06:10 PM
A Mind Flayer is listed with the ability Innate Spellcasting (Psionics)

What is the significance of the "Psionics" qualifier?

-DF
Unoriginal
2020-11-10, 06:22 PM
A Mind Flayer is listed with the ability Innate Spellcasting (Psionics)

What is the significance of the "Psionics" qualifier?

-DF

It signifies that those innate spells are actually mental powers. Note that those innate spells require no component due to said "mental powers" flavor.
DwarfFighter
2020-11-11, 03:06 AM
So there is nothing special about how the spell is cast that is derived from the psionics "keyword" - any and all exceptions to normal spellcasting is in text. Right or left?

-DF
Unoriginal
2020-11-11, 07:18 AM
So there is nothing special about how the spell is cast that is derived from the psionics "keyword" - any and all exceptions to normal spellcasting is in text. Right or left?

-DF

Correct, as far as spells go the psionics descriptor doesn't change anything.