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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 2969228" data-attributes="member: 1165">And double jeopardy, and psionic combat (yeah, it was bad even in 2e), and complicated rules about Contact and "opening your minds" and lots of save-less powers and critical failures (using penalties rather than limits to balance powers), etc. If the rules are so complicated it's always causing confion and problems, I would blame the rules.Some devotions, maybe most, were the equivalent of low level powers. But not all. Some sciences were devotions like mid-level powers, but not all. You got sciences as early as 1st-level (when you could get Disintegrate, 3rd-level without "cheating" by using wild talents) so clearly something was wrong there. I think psionics needs power levels instead of the overly loose Devotion/Science/High Science structure. Pre-reqs are cool, so long as they're primarily flavor. I don't think it's okay to make a psionic power over-the-top just because it's a "discipline power" or has a pre-requisite.No kidding. Well, actually, I was a playtester for the XPH, and I know it gets the same amount of playtesting as other non-core books. There's some pretty broken stuff for spellcasters in non-core books. However, I don't think there's any non-spellcasting base class that gets a whole book to itself, except maybe one of the Incarnum classes, so they get less baggage. To be as balanced as core, psionics would need to be playtested for as long as the core rules were.</blockquote>

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