Known errata/errors in the XPH

[Intrope]

I dont understand intrope, where is the abuse? It does still cost a pretty hefty amount of exp after all, and the benefit is that you can do things that you could have done anyway the first time. Hard to see any real abuse there, especially with the cost.

Well, I guess what I see is the ability to get the benefits of a power (or powers, if you also use permanancy) without actually having to pay the cost (that is, the slot selection). And it's a pretty nice power, given that their is no other way to swap out feats/skill points/powers. Moreover, you really don't need this power very often, even if you use it for the whole party's benefit--so, the primary cost is really the slot selection.

And for the xp cost, I don't really think that it really balances it out by itself; 50xp isn't a lot for 7th+ level characters; for that matter, 50*level isn't a huge amount at any level for the ability to completely re-write your character.

On the other hand, I do agree that it isn't a huge abuse. Just something I thought was rather wrong. On the other hand, I guess it could be viewed as a mechanism for Psi's to have temporary access to alternate powers in order to facilitate things like item creation as James suggests. Maybe I'm wrong about it's abusiveness. Just thought I'd point out something that leapt to mind on my first read-through.

 

[James McMurray]

Oh no, it can most definitely be abused. Before you go into a situation you restructre the party's lives to make them completely suited to that particular situation.

As someone over at WotC's boars put it (paraphrased):

Drop weapon focus for Improved Unarmed Strike before going into a "no weaponry allowed" scenario: Whoa, I know Kung Fu!

Tank! I need to know how to operate a ballista and drive a hiipogriff!

I believe it as intended to facilitate item creation, because otherwise its very rare that a psion would really bother to get craft feats. Why would you get embed stone when the only stones you can make are powers you can already manifest on a whim?

If used to its fulest potential with a DM that is unprepared and unwilling to place limits, it can most definitely cause fits. However, if used that way in a campaign designed to work that way, it can be a blast.

 

[Scion]

umm.. I think you all seriously underestimate paying hundreds and hundreds of exp's on a whim to gain whatever abilities, at the cost of your current ones. Useing this in conjunction with item creation feats and you will be levels behind the rest of the party in no time. Sorry, I just dont see anything near what I would call 'abuse'. Good to have options? sure, but at the sheer cost of it.. gah..

emergency use? sure, maybe. Of course you will have to manifest it twice for that sort of thing in most cases, that doubles the exp cost. More than one person needs it? costs are skyrocketing. The benefit isnt that great, it mainly seems like a power made for people who made some mistakes and wish to correct them. If more power can be garnered then cool, but the cost of it is just too enormous to use all of the time, or even that often.

 

[James McMurray]

Because of the way 3.5 xp works (and FR xp in 3.0) you will always catch up to your fellow adventurers in level.

 

[Scion]

Because of the way 3.5 xp works (and FR xp in 3.0) you will always catch up to your fellow adventurers in level.

you 'might' catch up 'eventually'. Big difference, and the cost is still huge even with that. Being a level behind, which is required to start catching up with exp, is a very large pain. That is definately a major cost. 'catching up' in level is possible, eventually, but catching up in absolute amount of exp is effectively impossible.

 

[Plane Sailing]

It's just the boilerplate "affecting other creature types" augment text that's also used with Psionic Charm and Psionic Dominate. I suppose elementals (and outsiders?) should be removed from the list, or it should be made more clear that creatures that don't breathe can't be affected by the power.

Yep, boilerplate text used in this way is lazy and misleading. Elementals don't breath, so they shouldn't be on the list. I can't remember if they have any other non-breathing creatures on the list (nor will most people!)

 

[Plane Sailing]

Errata or curiousity?

the Claws of the Beast power requires augmentation to reach higher levels of damage.

The Bite of the Wolf power automatically scales with higher level.

The latter seems wrong, out of kilter with the way that everything else works now. It would seem to make more sense if the Bite of the Wolf power had a little table of scaling damage (and damage from different sized creatures) like Claws of the Beast has - just with the appropriate different starting damage die.

Cheers

 

[The Souljourner]

I this Psychic Reformation is fine. The example of "ooh, I picked something that was a mistake, damn, I should fix that" is exactly what it's for. Hell, I'd love that in my current campaign... I don't usually make stupid feat choices, but I happened to this time, and really wish I could go back and change feats. Heck, some DMs will let you do that anyway (within reason).

It costs XP, and in my mind, since XP is about the scarcest resource in D&D, that makes it fairly well balanced.

-The Souljourner

 

[kigmatzomat]

I this Psychic Reformation is fine. The example of "ooh, I picked something that was a mistake, damn, I should fix that" is exactly what it's for.

And it is somewhat similar to the Sorceror & Bard's power rearrangement.

Hell, I'd love that in my current campaign... I don't usually make stupid feat choices, but I happened to this time, and really wish I could go back and change feats. Heck, some DMs will let you do that anyway (within reason).

I've been known to let people swap out feats but only if they haven't really used them. One of my players was bemoaning choosing Endurance while at 13th level and I told him to go ahead and swap it out since he hasn't had it that long and has never used it. Then he stunned us all by saying he'd had it since 3rd level (2 years ago!)! Not once had he used Endurance. Same time he got it, he got his riding dog/animal companion and a set of mithral chain and he'd never needed to run! Heck, his character had never needed endurance before, but none of the splat books were out and he just grabbed something generic.

 

[Derulbaskul]

Neothelid's psi-like abilities shows "psychic thrust" instead of "psychic crush".