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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enforcer" data-source="post: 3524868" data-attributes="member: 396">Personally, I like the psionics rules better than the magic rules (Vancian has always rubbed me the wrong way--why can't my Wizard remember how magic missle works?). I prefer Sorcerers/Favored Souls/Warlocks for my magic-using classes.I also like the idea that it takes more energy to have a "hotter" fireball (i.e. no free caster-level scaling, you have to spend more pp instead).I do wish that psionics got more love from Wizards of the Coast (Complete Psionic was kind of meh, though I don't have a huge hate-on for it like many). Also, the Soulknife, while an amazing concept, really falls flat for me in execution--I view it as being pretty weak. The Mind's Eye (official Wizards article series) that lets you choose to replace Psychic Strike with bonus feats goes a long ways towards fixing it, however, even if they forgot to replace Knife to the Soul with something too.As for going all-out with psionic NPCs, I really have only one experience to speak from. In my last session, I ran a 5th level kobold telepath against my players' party of six, level 4 PCs. He was almost taken out in one round (by a blinding effect--if the psion can't see, he can't target you, he made his save by 1). He spent most of the time flying around (potion) trying to hit my party with crisis of breath and energy ray. While very effective (the party knew they were in a fight after it was over), he didn't seem over-the-top. Perhaps a kineticist would be different, but crisis of breath knocked out one of my PCs for the whole fight, and ego whip knocked out the Warforged Fighter (an otherwise unstoppable engine of death). He was also out of pp by the time the party got him. I really liked crisis of breath for the decisions it forced the afflicted PC to make. *shrug*I'd really like to run an all-psionics campaign some time. I did do a psionics-only one-shot with a sort of Wild West theme to it that was pretty fun.</blockquote>

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