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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 4102375" data-attributes="member: 8461">Okay, let's go over the material in the Psionics appendix first.Psionics PortfolioI'm not sure why Lammas is listed as being the favored time of the Psionics portfolio, since it's the day that celebrates the first wheat harvest. A better day might be the spring/fall equinox (as those days represent balance).The Psionic Domain's power is not a good one. There's little benefit to making all spell-like abilities into psi-like abilities, particularly since the default assumption is that psionics and magic have full transparency. Besides, most mortal characters who'd take such a domain wouldn't get any benefit from that anyway. Far better to, say, make it give you Use Psionic Device as a class skill.The 6th-level domain power is misspelled. It's "disintegrate, psionic."I think the 7th-level power should be changed to ultrablast rather than divert teleport.For the Hazards line (under the Dominion header), I recommend something akin the following: "Magic-using beings are targeted by native creatures, who see magic as a threat to psionics." For the Inhabitants line, it's mostly fine as it is, but could be tweaked a bit: "All manner of phrenic creatures inhabit this realm."For the portfolio's powers, the Aversion to Magic power (the first weakness for disciples) should be as follows:"Magic Vulnerability: Suffer 50% extra damage from spells and spell-like abilities.I recommend changing the Prophet ability (Magic Ward) to the following (since otherwise the existing power would run counter to the weakness listed above):"Power Block - You automatically block the first psionic power used against you each round."The Hero-deity ability should be named "Scion of Psionics" rather than "Scion of Psions."The Quasi-deity ability should be called "Improved Summoning (Psionics)."For the Demi-deity ability, I recommend changing the name to "Embodiment of the Mind," and the ability description to "Immunities against your mind-affecting effects only 50% effective."For the double portfolio listings, the Prophet ability should be as follows:"Power Reflection - You reflect back any power that does not defeat your power resistance."The Hero-deity ability in the Double Psionics portfolio should be called "Greater Scion of Psionics."The Quasi-deity ability for the Double Psionics portfolio should be called "Perfect Summoning (psionics)."For the Demi-deity ability in the Double Psionics portfolio, I recommend changing the name to Perfect Embodiment of the Mind, and change the text to read as follows: "Immunities against your mind-affecting effects totally ineffective."I also recommend adding, as a note somewhere on this page, that an immortal who takes this portfolio gains the Psionic subtype, and has their spell-like abilities become psi-like abilities, and their spell resistance becomes power resistance.Psionic AbilitiesThe Metapsionic Freedom epic feat should be renamed "Metapsionic Focus," and the Benefits line should simply read "You no longer need to expend your psionic focus to apply a metapsionic feat to a power."Personally, U_K, I also recommend reprinting the <a href="http://d20npcs.wikia.com/wiki/Cogent%2C_Psionic_CR_88#New_Epic_Feats" target="_blank">Automatic Metapsionic Capacity and Metapsionic Freedom</a> feats in this section also.In Table A-3 and in the Prerequisites line of the Psionic Static cosmic power, "Divine Catapsi" is misspelled.In Table A-3, the Benefit line for Power Block should say, "You can block one power per round."In Table A-3, the Benefit line for Power Immunity should say, "You are immune to powers of a certain level."The Benefit entry for Divine Catapsi is one long sentence. It should be punctuated as follows: "Enemies within your Divine Aura find it harder to manifest their psionic powers and psi-like abilities. Whenever an enemy manifests a psionic power within your aura they must spend additional power points equal to your divine bonus. These power points count towards their power point limit for that power. Enemies attempting to use psi-like abilities in your aura find their effects reduced; a psi-like ability has its effective manifester level reduced by your divine bonus. If this would reduce the effective manifester level to lower than the minimum required to manifest that power, then the ability fails."In the Prerequisite and Benefit lines of the Power Block ability, change "spell resistance" to "power resistance."For the Power Immunity ability, change the Benefit line to read "You become immune to all 1st-level powers (as if you have Infinite Power Resistance)." Likewise, the Special line should read "You can take this ability multiple times and its effects stack. Each time you take it you become immune to the next two higher power levels as well. You cannot be immune to more power levels than you have divine ranks." This is because the current wording (dealing with power points) is vague, creating doubts regarding whether augmented powers (and powers used in conjunction with metapsionic feats) fall under that guideline.In the "Benefit" and "Special" lines for the Power Shot ability, the words "Powers" and "Psionic" should not have their first letter capitalized.As an aside, I don't recommend using the sidebar that Jedrous posted above regarding magic/psionic transparency. The default rules are that magic and psionics are totally transparent, and the alternate rules for making them not be so are in the XPH; moreover, those rules aren't OGC, so I think the entire thing is best left alone.</blockquote>

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