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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RUMBLETiGER" data-source="post: 6053754" data-attributes="member: 6674868">I think it's different here, psionics vs. casting.  A caster that only has access to 3rd level spells could not cast a 4th level spell, because a caster prepares spells per day at the spell levels he has access to.  Even if a 4th level spell is written into a Wizard's spellbook, he cannot prepare it.Psions don't prepare anything in advance.  Psions don't have spell slots per day, don't have to prepare anything.  Where even a Sorcerer who has all spells known available is limited by slots per day, the Psion is only limited by the Power Points able to invest.  Normally, the # of PP invested per Power is what keeps a Psion from manifesting above his/her level, and the fact that in most cases, a Psion cannot learn a Power above his/her level.  What you've done in your post is developed the exceptions to those two normal limitations.  Since the level 1 racial substitution states "whenever a changeling egoist manifests a psychometabolism power that  targets himself (and only himself), he can treat his manifester level as  one higher than normal", and since you should be able to manifest above your level if you can drop the 7 PP, you should be able to do this.It's still up to your DM of course, but you should be able to manifest this level 4 Power as a level 5~6 character.</blockquote>