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Originally Posted by rerednaw
From what I've seen it seems to be a way to give martials spellcasting without IQ, Magery, or taking extra time. Is that the intent?
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Important note: Magery is replaced by an expensive buy-in advantage that
gives no bonuses to skill rolls. Skill bonuses (ie Talent) is a separate thing that you have to buy on top of it. For even more points.
And yes, they suffer from critical failures appropriate to their power source. If they're "chi" powers, the wielder could become sick from imbalanced chi. If they're magic, critical spell failures are a risk. If they're clerical (paladin-style smite powers) they may not have significant critical failure drawbacks - or they have their own critical failure table.
Psionic abilities are so wildly variable from world to world that you'd have to ask your GM what happens.