Just picked up the Expanded Psionics Handbook

[Morrow]

But I guess illithids just use the MM version of mind blast?

If so, that remains unfortunate. A single attack that can sideline half the party for 3d4 rounds makes for a lot of grumbling, kibitzing, and snoring at the game table. IME, 3d4 rounds is a long enough duration that measuring it in rounds is really a bit of a tease.

But hell, making'em 9th-level psions is just all-out coolness. That's the way they shoulda done it to begin with.

If the psionic mind flayer can manifest powers as a 9th level psion, how does that effect their ECL?

Morrow

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

I guess the most important question I have is: Can I use these new rules to simulate characters like Xavier, Luke Skywalker, Jean Grey or any other Psionic characters from works of fiction?

Xavier - psion (Telepath)
Luke Skywalker - psion (Keneticist)/psychic warrior
Jean Grey - Wilder w/ telepathic and TK powers

 

[Sir Elton]

Xavier - psion (Telepath)
Luke Skywalker - psion (Keneticist)/psychic warrior
Jean Grey - Wilder w/ telepathic and TK powers

OR . . .

White Queen - psion (telepath)

Phoenix: Wilder w/ telepathic, Tk, and 10 levels of Pyrokineticist.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Did they fix the feeder weaponry, and if so, how?

Bodyfeeder and Mindfeeder are both +3 enchantments now. Otherwise they are the same. It does mention that the temporary hit points and PP gained do not stack.

Soulfeeder has been renamed Soulbreaker and is the same.

 

[Sir Elton]

They are putting it into the SRD.

They better. I recently checked the Wizards site, they haven't added them yet. But I'm sure they're working on them.

 

[LoneWolf23]

Xavier - psion (Telepath)
Luke Skywalker - psion (Keneticist)/psychic warrior
Jean Grey - Wilder w/ telepathic and TK powers

Ok, now can I have some details? For exemple, can I simulate the wide range of Xavier's telepathic abilities (namely, a guy who can read minds, probe memories, dominate others and even alter memories) using the rules in the Expanded Psionics Handbook without too much trouble?

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Ok, now can I have some details? For exemple, can I simulate the wide range of Xavier's telepathic abilities (namely, a guy who can read minds, probe memories, dominate others and even alter memories) using the rules in the Expanded Psionics Handbook without too much trouble?

Without any trouble at all. In case you missed it, here are the powers on the Telepath list:

Telepath
1 - Psionic Charm, Mindlink
2 - Aversion, Brain Lock, Read Thoughts, Psionic Suggestion
3 - Crisis of Breath, Hostile Empathic Transfer, False sensory Input
4 - Psionic Dominate, Thieving Mindlink, Psionic Modify Memory, Schism
5 - Metaconcert, Mind Probe,
6 - Mind Switch
7 - Crisis of Life
8 - Mind Seed
9 - True Mind Switch, Psychic Chirurgery

That's not counting about 20 or so other telepathic powers under the generic psion list that a character could have access to. So yes, you could very easily use those abilities.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

There's not really any fluff in the PrC text, just that they're psionic monks. There is a Zuoken writeup in the back of the book, though. Neutral demigod, portfolio is monks & mental powers, domains are knowledge, mind, strength, and war. "Once a human martial artist, Zuoken attained such mental and physical perfection that he ascended into godhood several centuries ago."

Thanks Spatula!

It sounds like they did a pretty good job with Zuoken, without giving an overdose of Greyhawk specifics on him. Apart from the inclusion of the new Mind domain, his domains are exactly as given in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, and Living Greyhawk Journal #3. Although his portolio in the LGG and LGJ#3 are given as "Physical and Mental Mastery". The "elemental" affinity for allies is understandable as Zuoken, when mortal, was from a human culture that resembled a medieval Middle East and the ties to Jinn-kind associated with it. It's nice to see that WotC didn't ditch their "base" setting when looking for "new" dieties to include with a sourcebook.

Are there any other deities besides Ilsensine and Zuoken? For instance, Zuoken is actually in the service of Xan Yae, a N lesser goddess of Twilight, Shadows, Stealth, and Mental Power.


Regards,
Eric Anondson

 

[FireLance]

Blues have a "Bues as Characters" section.
Blue PCs get:
-Racial Skills: +4 Move Silenty and Ride. (Ride? Maybe they meant Hide? :\ )

Ride. Blues are psionic goblins, and goblins get +4 to Ride because they're closely associated with and often mounted on worgs. It's in the MM.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Ride. Blues are psionic goblins, and goblins get +4 to Ride because they're closely associated with and often mounted on worgs. It's in the MM.

Oh. Ok.

Come to thik of it, I could certainly see a blue sitting atop a phrenic warg.