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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Bomb" data-source="post: 1769625" data-attributes="member: 8300">Psions On ParadeWell, here's the pros and cons of the Psion in my campaigns. I haven't house-ruled anything from XPH yet, as I only had 1 player using it for about 6 months before the campaign ended due to everyone moving. From levels 5 on, it was an Elf Psion Shaper and a human Ranger. Each had a chance to shine, but the Psion DID trample a few encounters that should have been tough, because of his character's FOCUS. With saves against his powers starting at 17 IIRC, most creatures just folded up under a Mind Blast. Due to a couple crappy saves, BOTH times a dragon decided to do a Dive and grab one of the characters to snack on later, said dragon plummeted head first into dirt and rocks and died from massive damage. BUT, as has been posted before, a couple of encounters maxing out that Mind Blast or his other favorite, Energy Bolt (if he had line of sight) or Energy Blast (if he was taken by surprise/surrounded) and he was pretty helpless. At the end of the campaign, the Psion was 14th, and the Ranger was almost 16th (Psion was burning XP on making items during downtime in cities). MORE THAN ONCE the Ranger had to throw up an Entangle and cast Longstrider on himself to take the spent, nearly dead Psion away from combat.Once those PP's are spent, the psion is running around with a really poor Fort Save, and really low HP's. The Ranger was running around with some utility spells, good AC, good Fort Saves, and of course, a Mighty longbow with which to smite his enemies. Even though the Psion had a bow, he couldn't hit the broad side of an Ogre with it, and usually ended up in Melee with a rapier and no chance to survive. Alone, the Psion would have died MANY, MANY slow painful deaths. The ranger cast Entangle and ran, shot until it fell (and did successfully many times).IN THE CITY, however, the ranger ran around offending everyone while the Psion wandered off on his own, and used his vast array of mental powers to get everything they wanted at half price, interrogate lesser members of the local rogues guild, and talk the guards out of arresting the ranger.It just depends on how you run your campaign, but I never had a problem with the Psion that was a gamebreaker.</blockquote>

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