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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9107735" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Preemptive 'It's been a while' for me as well. There was so much more content for those three that there was almost inherently going to be more abuses for them. Just as a straightforward example Divine Metamagic (allowing you to pay the cost of boosting your spell with turn-undead attempts), combined with relatively cheap turn-attempt boosting Nightsticks (added content almost always finding ways to remove limitations some other content imposed as a cost/balance). Psionics didn't have the multiple layers of content to make up such combinations. Where it did, it did sometimes break (I think a web supplement added Spells-to-powers rules, which theoretically let them learn any psionic power or spell in the game from all class lists; however again that was probably 3-4 years after some anyspell abuse was discovered for C/D/W).Regardless of nova potential, I don't recall any specific psionic powers upon which you could use that nova ability that threw the game off kilter in quite the way that spells could (be that ice assassins, demiplanes, shivering touch, or just clerics with persistent combat buffs and druidic flying bears leading bear armies). Of course, we could have simply had a gentleperson's agreement not to use abusive combos at that point (much of the madness of 3.5 didn't show up at our tables either, just a running discussion about which combos were brilliant strategic thinking and which were cheap, abusive combos).</blockquote>

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