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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 2300091" data-attributes="member: 141">Yeah, but it is prettier if they all have their own ranking. <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=":)" /> Do you mean DR/lawful or DR/chaotic?  Normally creatures that are evil have DR/good and vice versa; but giving lawful mystics DR/lawful would be an interesting design choice.  DR of some kind seems appropriate: IIRC there is a variant monk in Unearthed Arcana that has DR like a barbarian.The contemplative gives a +4 to your effective wisdom for the purpose of choosing bonus powers.  (It used to be +8, but CRGreathouse toned it down a bit)I am not sure that we want *all* mystics to be fast moving; the fact that they are all slow fallers is bad enough...  But it makes sense that slow fall could also apply to balance and jump checks.  The mystic force that holds you up when you are falling would stop you from losing your balance, and would keep you in the air long enough to jump further.Then since the current fast movement power adds to the slow fall distance, it would also add to the balance and jump checks.  The reference to the DC of walking on water etc. could be worked into the description of the slow fall power, since it would be the base power.   An abbreviated form of cloud dancing could become another (probably fairly low ranked power):The Run on Water and Wuxia powers would be then be redundant.As for condensing the list of powers... well, improved empty body could be what happens if you take empty body twice.  The two are close enough together on the table that you wouldn't have to add any pre-requisites.  Something like this:I don't think that a mystic would need to take the power more than twice, but if a power is stackable it should be able to be taken an unlimited number of times.What else could be done to shorten the list?  Maybe fold wholeness of body into the asceticism power.  It's kinda early on the list, but compared with the paladin's laying on of hands it is not too powerful.[edit]Oh- the DR could be added to the options of the Resistance power.  With the #8 power (wholeness of power) combined with asceticism, that leaves a space for cloud dancing.  #14 (walk on water) is out, #26 (improved empty body) is folded into #24... we could end up with 27 powers.  And 3 * 3 * 3 is a pretty number. <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=":)" /> [/edit]</blockquote>

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