Jdvn1
Hanging in there. Better than the alternative.
In practice, I enjoyed it and played a Psion into Epic levels.Rystil Arden said:I thought it was cool at first, but in practise it was awful for several reasons. For one, people who wanted to play versatile psions were screwed from the beginning because they had to have good scores in all 6 stats just to cast all the disciplines. For two, using Strength for Egoist powers (which were often powerful buffs to make you even stronger), led to massively powerful melee egoists (this still exists to a much lesser extent with the 3.5 Psychic Warriors who retained those buffs, though at least Strength isn't the ability score of choice)
I thought it was a cool disadvantage to not be able to manifest all the powers (which they've now replicated with the domain-like structure but then threw in the Extra Power feat or whatever).
Strength for Egoist powers I thought was cool because it meant a Psion could take those cool Psionic melee feats, but still wouldn't be as good in a melee fight as a Fighter (due to low BAB, low HP, much fewer feats, etc).