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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2267489" data-attributes="member: 2011">Difficult to take your pack horse indoors.Actually, she is proficient with the Greatsword. She took the proficiency at level one. However, she could not afford a Greatsword until level two.  <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=";)" /> Plus again, my psion has a 14 Str, not a 10 Str.But why should she fight with an inferior one handed weapon when she  can use Force Screen for her shield bonus and fight with a Greatsword?Actually, the party just bought a Heward's Handy Haversack and my psion is carrying it. Even with most of her equipment in it, she is STILL carrying around 30 pounds. 15 more pounds for armor and shield would put her in medium encumbrance if she picks up anything weighing 9 pounds or more.I suspect that most psions have strength lower than 14 and it would be even worse for them.I typically only spend round one buffing her (if even then) since Inertial Armor and Thicken Skin tend to be up before we get into combat (not always, but often). Or, another good tactic is to buff while moving towards the enemy.Plus, you can "not weaken the enemy" by rolling a 2 or your to hit. Just because you make an offensive attempt does not mean that you will be succesful.It's an excellent class to wade into combat, especially if you are an Egoist. My character does it all of the time.For example, my psion did Metamorphosis as a Troll and held off a Vrock all by herself at 7th level while the rest of the PCs took out the two dozen other lesser demons attacking us. Even when it tried to Teleport and fight other PCs instead, all I had to do was go over and engage it some more while the rest of the PCs regrouped.Also, I disagree with you on the ranged touch attack issue. Most psionicist builds will minimally rely on some ranged touch attacks merely because so many psionic offensive powers are designed that way and have a higher chance of success if used. And those types of attacks do not succeed if they do not hit. I don't know of any character (Wizard, Sorcerer, or Psion) with a +1/2 BAB that wants a penalty to hit if he uses touch attacks or ranged touch attacks. Doing that is counter productive.</blockquote>

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