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Message: <blockquote data-quote="two" data-source="post: 2260935" data-attributes="member: 9002">Not Well BalancedI don't buy any of this talk.Psions are simply not well balanced for many campaigns.  Note, I said "campaigns!"There are plenty of campaigns where 4 encounters in a day (before resting) is extremely rare.  As in, it happens maybe once a year, when the party goes into a crypt or something like that.I've played in multiple campaigns (long lasting, levels 1-15 or so) where we never, not once, had 4 or 5 encounters in a single day.More to the point, 99% of campaigns do NOT feature 4 encounters a day every time the party gets into a fight.  It's almost impossible to get 4 encounters in a day every day unless you are going through the "mega huge dunjeon-o-doom-o-rama".And more to the point, most GM's don't have a lot of interest in running 4 seperate encounters in a day.  For the simple reason that this limits greatly the type and kind of encounters/situations the pary finds themselves in.Meaning, that unless the GM wants to make his/her campaign of the type that features 3 (minimally) or 4 (will do it) encounters about 75% of the time, in order to insure the Psion has to make sure not to use up too many power points too quickly -- Psions will get off easy.For every other campaign type, and this is the majority, Psions are unbalanced because of their ability to do great big damage in a short amount of time by using bunches of power points.It's kinda similar to what would happen if Sorcerers, for example, were given the ability to burn 2 lower level spells to fuel a higher level spell, i.e. 2 4th level spells power a 5th level spell.  2 5th level spells power a 6th level spell.  This hypothetical sorcerer could burn through masses of spells very quickly and pump out lots of damge.  If there are 2 encounters a day, he's got enough spells to do this and rules the battlefield.  With 3-4 encounters, it's rough.  But it doesn't matter.  Because in most campaigns, most "days" involve 2 or 1 encounters. Personally, I think any class (such as Psion) that requires a very specific campaign style (multiple encounters per day) to be kept in line, is asking a bit much of the GM.  And of the players, as well.  I know I would be annoyed as all get-out if everytime we travelled to point X we ran across 4 random monsters illogically strung together to keep the Psion limited instead of 1 or 2 logical, "easy to beleive" challanges along the way.</blockquote>

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