Mage hand is a spell. Telekinetic shove is NOT a spell. It's not magic. It requires nothing. It's done on a separate bonus action without the need for mage hand.
They are NOT connected, they simply exist in the same feat.
They are not intended to be working together.
Also, if you can shove a creature, I'm sorry but you can shove an object.
This isn't "biological telekinesis" that only targets living tissue. It would say that if it did. If you're not allowing players to move objects with this ability that they earned you're just a dick.
The Feat Telekinetic has been fixed in the core rule revision;
Telekinetic: You learn the Mage Hand spell. You can cast it without Verbal or Somatic components, you can make the spectral hand Invisible, and its range and the distance it can be away from you both increase by 30 feet when you cast it. The spell's spellcasting ability is the ability increased by this feat.
Yea the first printing had the same non-functional text for the Feat that it had in Tasha's. Apparently they forgot to fix it in the original PHB release so it was done in the first errata run. I would just have taken out the increased range completely instead but they went with the clunky fix.
The one good thing about it is that at least we now have an unambiguous clarification that Distant Spell don't work on Mage Hand and similar spells.
Mage hand is a spell. Telekinetic shove is NOT a spell. It's not magic. It requires nothing. It's done on a separate bonus action without the need for mage hand.
They are NOT connected, they simply exist in the same feat.
They are not intended to be working together.
Also, if you can shove a creature, I'm sorry but you can shove an object.
This isn't "biological telekinesis" that only targets living tissue. It would say that if it did. If you're not allowing players to move objects with this ability that they earned you're just a dick.
The Feat Telekinetic has been fixed in the core rule revision;
Interestingly, the first 2024 PHB printings had different wording, and it was fixed on DDB and newer printings: Player’s Handbook - Sage Advice & Errata - Dungeons & Dragons - Sources - D&D Beyond
Yea the first printing had the same non-functional text for the Feat that it had in Tasha's. Apparently they forgot to fix it in the original PHB release so it was done in the first errata run. I would just have taken out the increased range completely instead but they went with the clunky fix.
The one good thing about it is that at least we now have an unambiguous clarification that Distant Spell don't work on Mage Hand and similar spells.