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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 2279375" data-attributes="member: 141">I don't see the difference in power with the rewriting of the priest path.  Could you elaborate?Empath path.... maybe rename it "nature's path" and add handle animal as well as sense motive to the skills known?  After all, the mystic is either getting a familiar or an animal companion- sensitivity to animals would seem to be called for.It's funny how many features are looked at askance by one or the other of us.  Diamond body, diamond mind, focused mind, multiclassing restrictions, fast movement... it's a wonder we are still talking at 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=";)" />Ok.  So you don't like diamond mind.  How about some other kind of immunity; maybe immunity to petrification and polymorph?Or, less powerful but adding an ascetic flavor- maybe the mystic has to only eat, drink and sleep, say, 1/4 as much as normal (i.e. can go 4 times as long without penalty).  Heck, make them hold their breath 4 times as long as well.  Call it meditative focus, or something.Now, I personally don't see the attraction in forcing the mystic to resist a cure light wounds that comes along unexpectedly.  Mystics should have foresight, self control, exquisitely tuned reflexes.  Context-insensitive reactions just don't do it for me.  My take on focused mind (power #16) is to let the mystic reroll one failed will save each day.  Maybe call it "refocus mind." It comes just before diamond body in my list.In my PDF I also added "Heart of Fire"- deathward protection (26), and "Spiritual Journey" - astral projection that only affects the mystic (27).  27 powers all together. I'm not terribly attached to either of these, though.  If a wuxia ability or two could be properly formulated, we could add those, too, but probably we shouldn't go higher than 30 powers or so.</blockquote>

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