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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1746818" data-attributes="member: 478">Well, a sorcerer can do this once every other level, hardly enough to upgrade every spell they know (which the psion does automatically and for free, and they even can pay a few XP to swap out every single power they know!); it still takes a huge amount of planning to get a nice spell selection for a sorcerer even with the new swapping ability. Wizards can learn additional spells, but pay a high cost for it. The last wizard I made has a large selection of spells (like 20 per level), but that was like half the resources spent on the spellbook, that's a lot of gold, which could have been used on magic items instead!    So, non-detriment is hardly correct, altho it's true, of course, that they do have some ways to get around this disadvantage to a degree.     But, if that is their compensation for the augmentation cost, then why do they get the much better flexibility with the PP system, have no caps, can wear armor without hindering their primary ability, do not have to bother about grapples, silence and such, since all their powers have no somatic and material components, have better class skills, more effective skill points per level, gain bonus feats, gain higher power levels at one level before they should, know a lot more powers of the relevant levels and do not have to bother which one to swap out since all upgrade for free, which also almost removes the need for metafeats to keep their low-level powers useful, can quicken spells, or instead of the last few items gain the ability to spontaneously manifest powers (which is the single most powerful ability for a spellcaster/manifester (the ability to cast spells/manifest powers in the first place not included, which is, of course, the most powerful ability all in all) in all D&D) as opposed to prepare them ahead of time, and so on?      What's the compensation for all that stuff then?      Bye   Thanee</blockquote>

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