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[3.5] What Tier would a Psion who *only* had metacreativity powers be?
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<blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 6148255" data-attributes="member: 892"><p>36 powers are on the psion/wilder and shaper lists in the two books - the numbered lists are as if the psion were taking the higher level powers as soon as possible, but at high levels this becomes a problem as one runs out of higher level powers and has to dip down into the lower level powers that were not yet taken (represented by a + rather than a number):</p><p></p><p>1st</p><p>1 Ecto Protection</p><p>2 Entangling Ectoplasm</p><p>3 Grease, Psionic</p><p>4 Bolt</p><p>5 Crystal Shard</p><p>+Astral Construct</p><p>+Minor Creation, Psionic</p><p>+Create Sound</p><p></p><p>2nd</p><p>1 Concealing Amorpha</p><p>2 Swarm of Crystals</p><p>3 Psionic Repair Damage</p><p>4 [Crystal Storm]</p><p></p><p>3rd</p><p>1 Concealing Amorpha, Greater</p><p>2 Ectoplasmic Cocoon</p><p>3 Dismiss Ectoplasm</p><p>4 Keen Edge, Psionic</p><p>+[Glyph of Warding]</p><p></p><p>4th</p><p>1 Fabricate, Psionic</p><p>2 Quintessence</p><p>3 Wall of Ectoplasm</p><p>4 [Burrowing Bonds]</p><p>+[Ectoplasmic Swarm]</p><p></p><p>5th</p><p>1 Hail of Crystals</p><p>2 Ectoplasmic Shambler</p><p>3 Incarnate</p><p>4 Major Creation, Psionic</p><p>+[Detain Ectoplasm]</p><p></p><p>6th</p><p>1 Crystalize</p><p>2 Fabricate, Greater Psionic</p><p>3</p><p></p><p>7th</p><p>1 Ectoplasmic Cocoon, Mass</p><p>2 [Energy Claw]</p><p>3</p><p></p><p>8th</p><p>1 Astral Seed</p><p>2 Matter Manipulation</p><p>3 Iron Body, Psionic</p><p></p><p>9th</p><p>1 Genesis</p><p>2 True Creation</p><p>3</p><p>4</p><p>5</p><p>6</p><p></p><p>The gaps are matched by the plusses at lower levels for a total of 36 powers for the 20th level psion. That said, it would be strange to take the incarnate power, since they wouldn't have the other powers that incarnate makes permanent. So I will modify it slightly and exclude incarnate (and one other power, let's say ectoplasmic swarm, for aesthetic reasons) by having the psion take a prestige class after all (in this case ectopic adept, which reduces manifester level by one and thus the 15th psion/5th ectopic adept has only 34 powers). Thus they will have 34 powers, all metacreativity powers.</p><p></p><p>There are three metacreativity powers not on the psion/wilder or shaper lists. They could be gotten with three uses of the expanded knowledge feat, I suppose.</p><p></p><p>The question remains: What tier would this character be?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Particle_Man, post: 6148255, member: 892"] 36 powers are on the psion/wilder and shaper lists in the two books - the numbered lists are as if the psion were taking the higher level powers as soon as possible, but at high levels this becomes a problem as one runs out of higher level powers and has to dip down into the lower level powers that were not yet taken (represented by a + rather than a number): 1st 1 Ecto Protection 2 Entangling Ectoplasm 3 Grease, Psionic 4 Bolt 5 Crystal Shard +Astral Construct +Minor Creation, Psionic +Create Sound 2nd 1 Concealing Amorpha 2 Swarm of Crystals 3 Psionic Repair Damage 4 [Crystal Storm] 3rd 1 Concealing Amorpha, Greater 2 Ectoplasmic Cocoon 3 Dismiss Ectoplasm 4 Keen Edge, Psionic +[Glyph of Warding] 4th 1 Fabricate, Psionic 2 Quintessence 3 Wall of Ectoplasm 4 [Burrowing Bonds] +[Ectoplasmic Swarm] 5th 1 Hail of Crystals 2 Ectoplasmic Shambler 3 Incarnate 4 Major Creation, Psionic +[Detain Ectoplasm] 6th 1 Crystalize 2 Fabricate, Greater Psionic 3 7th 1 Ectoplasmic Cocoon, Mass 2 [Energy Claw] 3 8th 1 Astral Seed 2 Matter Manipulation 3 Iron Body, Psionic 9th 1 Genesis 2 True Creation 3 4 5 6 The gaps are matched by the plusses at lower levels for a total of 36 powers for the 20th level psion. That said, it would be strange to take the incarnate power, since they wouldn't have the other powers that incarnate makes permanent. So I will modify it slightly and exclude incarnate (and one other power, let's say ectoplasmic swarm, for aesthetic reasons) by having the psion take a prestige class after all (in this case ectopic adept, which reduces manifester level by one and thus the 15th psion/5th ectopic adept has only 34 powers). Thus they will have 34 powers, all metacreativity powers. There are three metacreativity powers not on the psion/wilder or shaper lists. They could be gotten with three uses of the expanded knowledge feat, I suppose. The question remains: What tier would this character be? [/QUOTE]
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