Kelleris
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FWIW, I've found psionics to be unbalanced. In writing up my core rules recently, every casting class except the Cleric and the Druid seemed weak by comparison, even the completely house-ruled one. Also FWIW, I have a player in my group who's a psionics junky - I use the rules pretty much just for him - and he agrees that at least some of the specific powers need to be changed.
I don't see why he should have to change his DMing style to de-cheese the psion, especially if he's not had this problem with other spellcasting classes in the past.
What I did to counter this tendency was to change the Psion, instead of forcing myself to DM in a way that like less. Check out the vitalizing magic system in Unearthed Arcana* if you have it, I've found that it makes Psions much more duly conservative with their power points and allows them to keep up with the Sorcerer over the course of a long day.
That said, several of the energy powers are just broken, IMO. A Wilder in a recent game easily did 3/4 of the groups damage, and she never even came close to running out of pps. I would at least restrict them by energy type. I've never had this issue with energy attacks being useless at high levels that people keep citing.
* - Basically, at half pps, the Psion is fatigued, and exhausted at one-quarter pps. The character's pp total recovers to 1/3 of its maximum after 1 hour of nonstrenuous activity, and 2/3 of its max after another hour. It takes 6 hours of rest to get the remainder back.
Spatula said:
I don't see why he should have to change his DMing style to de-cheese the psion, especially if he's not had this problem with other spellcasting classes in the past.
What I did to counter this tendency was to change the Psion, instead of forcing myself to DM in a way that like less. Check out the vitalizing magic system in Unearthed Arcana* if you have it, I've found that it makes Psions much more duly conservative with their power points and allows them to keep up with the Sorcerer over the course of a long day.
That said, several of the energy powers are just broken, IMO. A Wilder in a recent game easily did 3/4 of the groups damage, and she never even came close to running out of pps. I would at least restrict them by energy type. I've never had this issue with energy attacks being useless at high levels that people keep citing.
* - Basically, at half pps, the Psion is fatigued, and exhausted at one-quarter pps. The character's pp total recovers to 1/3 of its maximum after 1 hour of nonstrenuous activity, and 2/3 of its max after another hour. It takes 6 hours of rest to get the remainder back.
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