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I believe Hyp is a big fan of the Socratic Method. Which is to say, if I don't understand something and read the answer, I may get it, or I may not. If I don't understand something and do some actual thinking of my own to figure it out, there's a better chance that I will come to understand...

Well, strict interpretation or not, here's what the D&D FAQ has to say on the matter: Cheers, Vurt

I suspect that of those who own the Tome of Battle, few also possess Magic of Incarnum, and fewer still have tried to join the two with the gestalt rules, so I'm not totally surprised by the lack of response. Well, other than mine. Ahem. Another potential issue to monitor is the key stat for...

Alas, Speed of Thought doesn't work in heavy armor.

If bringing in the gestalt option kicks the game up to 11, throwing in incarnum jacks that up to 13. I found it a little much for my game when I did something like this. The reasoning being, a gestalt barbarian//sorcerer, that is, joining a melee class with a caster class, is somewhat balanced...

A standard door's AC is like, what, 2? The barbarian should swing that warhammer two-handed and Power Attack for 10. With Strength 22, that's a minimum of 30 damage; the barb should be splintering the door without breaking stride! Well, so long as he has Power Attack... Cheers, Vurt

I'm not really sure I would place Ptolus somewhere in Eberron, the sheer number of adventurers roaming around the place, and the relatively high level of many NPCs just doesn't fit the Eberron vibe. That said, if I were going to merge the two settings, I would probably use it to replace...

How about his feet no longer touch the ground, ala the Elocater PrC's "Scorn Earth" ability from the XPH. That's pretty thematic/angelic. Cheers, Vurt

This sounds like a good compromise. Incidentally, what was the problem that came up in your game? Cheers, Vurt

Can we please stop with the personal sniping? Debate the arguement, not its poster. If the problem is seen to be the psion class, and not psionics in general (which seems to be a reasonable enough position if neither the psychic warrior nor the wilder, who both make heavy use of the psionic...

I think Quickdraw is more useful for pulling things other than just potions. If you could store weapons in a masterwork potion belt I might feel this arguement carried more weight. Let me propose a new feat instead: Quickdraw (potion), which only allows one to quickdraw a potion. How is that...

How is this item overpowered? Retrieving it is a free action instead of a move-equivalent one, sure, but it still takes a standard action to actually drink the darned thing. So one can still only quaff one potion per round. This seems to me to be useful primarily for downing healing potions...

No worries. Top of page 88, Complete Psionic. Cheers, Vurt

In this discussion I see constant references to the psion, largely in part due to the framing of the issue by the OP, but it does leave me to wonder somewhat whether folks feel that "psionics is broken" as well for the psychic warrior and the wilder. Not to derail this thread, but I am curious...

It's not a house rule for those folks with Complete Psionics. Cheers, Vurt

Energy missile is indeed a very strong 2nd-level power. It is perhaps even the kineticist's signature power. I think the designers tried to balance it somewhat by making it kineticist-only, but in practice it's a good enough power that it's worth burning a feat (Expanded Knowledge) to pick it...

Thanks! That's another one I missed! I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was supposed to prove something here. I thought this was supposed to be a discussion of whether or not adding psionics to one's game was worth the effort, not an argument for whether psionics is more uber than arcane magic...

Some of them, but not all. Plus, there are other limits on the Unconditional Power feat, and, quite frankly, in my games nobody has ever taken it. My point in my original reply was simply that things aren't so bad as some folks make it out to be. The sky does not come crashing down on the...

It's a Forgotten Realms sourcebook. If all the big baddies are ~CR20-ish, Elminster gets bored! Which is to say, it's not terribly inconsistent at all. FR already has the precedent of a markedly high power-level, what with stat-blocks for epic-level NPCs in the FRCS itself. Your generic...

Off the top of my head, the dazed and stunned conditions prevent psions from manifesting. Go monks and cantrips! Edit: Blinding a psion keeps them from targetting you, as does frightening them and/or panicking them, making them nauseated, petrifying them (duh), or putting them to sleep. Also...