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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 2262054" data-attributes="member: 478">No. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> They have about the same (blue area ~ red area), the sorcerer even has slightly more, I think.What I'm saying is, that this total effect (or spell power) only comes to bear, if the sorcerer can expend all spell slots in a day. The psion has it very easy to bring the full power to bear.And this results in the psion having a higher impact on an average day.I explicitly did not use any specific examples there (which might make things a bit confusing, admittedly).See, this is exactly, why I did not use damage dice or any other specific spells/powers for the comparison. A 5th level spell/power dealing 10d6 is not equal to a 3rd level spell/power dealing 10d6. It's - depening on the situation, as usual, of course - much higher!Take for example (sorry for going non-core, but it's one staple spell and one that compares well to it to show this): Fireball and Firebrand (from Magic of Faerûn). Both deal 10d6 fire damage in an area, but the 5th level spell's area is almost freely shapeable, thereby allowing much, much more targets than the 3rd level spell, and thus a much higher effect.Doesn't always come to bear, but just to get the general idea, why I only compare spell level x caster level here and no specific effects. It's hard to compare a Dominate Person to a Fireshield after all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Of course! But this "effect" has by then already been generated by the psion, that is the blue area above the purple area. The sorcerer is just trying to keep up afterwards.It's like on a long-distance run, if the psion has 3 laps done by the time, the sorcerer has only 2. He's already in the goal, while the sorcerer is still running to complete the 3rd lap.ByeThanee</blockquote>

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