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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9768576" data-attributes="member: 7006">That could be a valid reason, but in that case why bother making all four pairs of Disciplines?  If they wanted Psions to focus or lean towards Enchantment and Illusion as they are the most "psion-y"... then just make a single Discipline that worries about those types of spells.  But don't create another one that is essentially a trap option because you want the "symmetry" of a Discipline for all eight schools, when that one is only applicable on 3 total spells of 1st to 3rd level.I mean at the very least... swap around the pairings so that the pairs were like Enchantment / Evocation and Conjuration / Illusion (or the other way around) so that the two pairings got at least a little more balanced in terms of spell count.  If we count up the number of spells from each of the eight schools (besides Cantrips) the Psion currently has... the totals are as follows:Enchantment: 36Divination: 22Transmutation: 21Illusion: 20Abjuration: 12Conjuration: 9Evocation: 7Necromancy: 5So pretty much the same way there are three "primary" saving throws (Dex / Con / Wis) and three "secondary" saving throws (Str / Int / Cha)... this has four "primary" spell schools for Psionic abilities (Enchantment / Divination / Transmutation / Illusion) and four "secondary" spell schools (Abjuration / Conjuration / Evocation / Necromancy).  Thus at the barest minimum the schools should be paired up with one primary and one secondary.  Which we do already have with Transmutation / Necromancy (26 spells) and Divination / Abjuration (34 spells)... but that means we should just do the other two pairings like I mention above.  Because having Enchantment / Illusion (56 spells) and Conjuration / Evocation (16 spells) paired for their Disciplines is just STUPID and makes one of them a "must have" and the other a trap.So just put Conjuration and Illusion together because they both are about creating things (objects and pictures)... and Enchantment and Evocation together because they both are about attacking something on someone else (the mind and the body). Because at least that way we get four sets of pairs that are at least comparable in number of total spells:Ench / Evo: 43Div / Abj: 34Ill / Conj: 29Tran / Necro: 26It's still not great, but it's much better than what we've been given these last two Psion UAs.</blockquote>

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