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Barry Sadler (a Green Beret who allegedly wrote the song the Ballad of the Green Beret) was the author* of a pulp series about Casca the immortal. If memory serves the character's name was Casca Rufius Longinus, and he was cursed with immortality because of his use of the spear against Jesus...

Noting that as a psionic feat Metamorphic Transfer is itself a supernatural ability would only further confuse the issue. Yes, it's a poorly worded feat but the sentence structure is very clear when it says you gain only three uses per day.

PHB, page 176. You only need to be able to see the target of targeted spells. It lists Charm Person as an example. Rays are treated as missile attacks, and as such can be targeted while blind, with the appropriate miss chance. Thus our eyes-closed arcanist could use Melf's but not magic...

The FAQ contained this tidbit: To translate: New material, and third-party material, whose spells are marked Sorcerer/Wizard means a Sorcerer can learn them up to his chart limit of spells per level. As an aside, I think it's a rip-off there are a few wizard-only spells but no sorcerer-only...

Found a clearer reference

Page 9 is where that text is cropped from. That's to pinpoint the target's exact square. The normal check to determine approximate location (which is usually sufficient for a fireball) is a DC 0. DMG page 295. We're also assuming the wizard doesn't have blindfighting (which is rare), a...

The feat reads pretty clearly you get three uses per day. "You gain only three uses of the metamorphic ability per day...." The metamorphic ability is the metamorphic feat. It's a poorly worded feat and I can see how one might reach the erroneus conclusion it's three per manifestation of a...

Metamorphic Transfer, page 48. "You gain only three uses of the metamorphic ability per day...." and "Special: You can gain this feat multiple times. Each time you gain one additional supernatural ability." I suppose it could be interpreted to being three uses per manifestation of...

Regardless of the veiled ad hominem going on there, I'll point out that being blind and hitting a target that's not spellcasting is 50-50, assuming equal ranks in Listen (for the attacker) and Move Silent (for the defender). Greg

Yes, it's a nice power. Closing your eyes negates the gaze attack and the arcanist would act as if blind. Blind characters are treated as if everything is invisible. Invisibility grants full concealment. True Strike neutralizes any concealment. So does fireballing, and a host of other tactics...

Yes, but the power itself isn't invisible. A crystal shard still travels from the psion to the target, the energy missile still comes from the psion. There are a few powers whose manifestation is directly tied to the power itself, and those would be masked by making the concentration check, like...

Underneath the covering blanket is a halfling, dressed in armor and also the body of a large dog. From a distance, it appeared as if the entire mass was the same as a human, but once uncovered it's clear the two forms are separate creatures. There aren't any marks on the halfling, except a few...

I'm not following as to why. Is the Psion expending more power points to control sound? Has he shelled out a lot of cross-class skills for Move Silently? He might be manifesting without an audible display but he's still a valid target for a listen check. The wizard has just as many points in...

Stealth is tough for a psion to achieve, since he doesn't get real invisibility and doesn't have the stealth skills to make it work. Even with Camouflage he's going to be pretty obvious on the field of combat. Negating the display just makes him not stand out like a sore thumb. As I noted in a...

That's true to a point. Just because there's no manifestation doesn't mean it's a completely invisible attack source, either. It's still obvious a psion is manifesting (else he'd never provoke an AoO). So the still/silent aspects of psionics is nice but not overwhelmingly nice. Grappling and...

Hmmm... I was pondering a Wilder using Wild Surge to pump up Bestow Power. Smells almost like free power points if you have two of them doing it. Greg

Attached (I forgot the summoned monster attachment.)

Thanks. It's what most intelligent people would do when facing such a threat. A fifty-fifty miss chance (or less if I cast true strike) means a low-level sorcerer with a crossbow can mess up the medusa pretty quickly. Greg

I'm listening but hear nothing. The primary advantage for the 'still' and 'silent' applications of psionics is being able to manifest in a silence field. It's a rare case. But not, as you imply, the four feats. It's similar in function but far weaker. No, the numbers are identical for both...

Great tactic, barring that Spell Storing is a melee weapon only modifier. Other than for the rules, that'd be really powerful. Greg