Psion
Adventurer
In another thread, this was posted.
I agree. They were pretty sloppy about this feat. Look at the wording. They even use the phrase "powers per day", which is meaningless. The feat was not thought through.
What drew my attention to this was a bit of cheese suggested by someone over on the Psionics board over at WotC - one poster (and even tempest's "FAQ") was that due to the poor choice of words for the ardent's powers known paragraphs. The ardent can learn any power he can pay for, and technically, he can pay for powers with a power point cost equal or less than his manifester levels. Which leads to some bent cerebremancer builds, a class that previously I had not considered in any way overpowered. (And, as rystil points out in the thread I pulled Solarious' quote from that this feat is especially good for cerebremancer, since they have enough slop in their spells that bleeding power points is not a big hit for them.)
So, congrats, WotC psionics boards (and WotC development team is not blameless). It's no pun-pun, but still, one more feather in the cap of power gamers everywhere.
(Sane DMs will, of course, plug this loophole with a vengeance.)
Solarious said:For what it's worth, I don't think Practiced Manifester, as written in the Complete Psionics, is legitimate. If you read the wording carefully, it is a clear cut-and-paste job of Practiced Spellcaster. Which means that Practiced Manifester was written without Psionics rules and it's nusances that makes it stand apart from traditional Vancian spellcasting. It's balance is questionable, and leaves questions hanging: for example, the feat says it does not increase the number of PPs you gain, then says that it increases manifester levels for all other purposes. But the bonus PPs you gain from high Intelligence is based on manifester levels... so which is it?
I agree. They were pretty sloppy about this feat. Look at the wording. They even use the phrase "powers per day", which is meaningless. The feat was not thought through.
What drew my attention to this was a bit of cheese suggested by someone over on the Psionics board over at WotC - one poster (and even tempest's "FAQ") was that due to the poor choice of words for the ardent's powers known paragraphs. The ardent can learn any power he can pay for, and technically, he can pay for powers with a power point cost equal or less than his manifester levels. Which leads to some bent cerebremancer builds, a class that previously I had not considered in any way overpowered. (And, as rystil points out in the thread I pulled Solarious' quote from that this feat is especially good for cerebremancer, since they have enough slop in their spells that bleeding power points is not a big hit for them.)
So, congrats, WotC psionics boards (and WotC development team is not blameless). It's no pun-pun, but still, one more feather in the cap of power gamers everywhere.
(Sane DMs will, of course, plug this loophole with a vengeance.)