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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dinkeldog" data-source="post: 2717695" data-attributes="member: 195">The value of the familiar isn't in the alertness for me, but in the communication channel.  Send the familiar with a scouting member (or when the party splits up for some reason) and the familiar can send back information.  Of course here, the psicrystal has it hands down over the familiar--telepathic speech is wonderful.  Empathy has its limits.For a wizard, scribe scroll seems like a natural to me.  Wizards can collect all kinds of spells that they don't want to waste memorization slots to cast.  When I play a wizard, I've got about one of everything that I won't use and that doesn't augment hugely with level (like magic missile) on a scroll.  More than one if a spell is pretty useful but doesn't augment with level.  That way I only spend my memorization slots on spells that vary with level.For the psion, encode stone is marginally more effective than scribe scroll is for a sorcerer.  The sorcerer can cast spells more often than the psion, but the psion has some additional power choices that a sorcerer doesn't have.  I am finding myself wishing I hadn't spent my bonus first level slot on encode right now, but that might change later.  The same goes with all of the item crafting feats, really.  Do I really want to take a power so that I can create items with when I'm not going to be putting that item to much proper use.</blockquote>