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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1562690" data-attributes="member: 114">You have misunderstood what the augmentation means.psions use pp for activating powers. 1pp for a 1st level power, 9pp for a 5th level power.If a 1st level power is augmented to 9pp (say Mind Thrust) it is the equivalent of the psion using a 5th level power from his repetoire, and it is given the DC of a 5th level power. (DC11+stat becomes DC11+4+stat == DC15+stat)That is all there is to it. The DC's are exactly the same as a spell of the equivalent &quot;cost&quot;. (excepting the two powers where an error has crept in and it suggests +1DC per pp - the fact that they are different to *every other* power and break the obvious conceptual model points to the fact they are errors. Just use the standard exemplified in all other damaging powers for them).&nbsp;- for another way of looking at it... imagine the augmentations as power chains instead. When a psion learns the power &quot;Mind Thrust&quot; he learns a 1st level, 2nd level, 3rd level etc version of it - as he gains access to a new level of powers that spell automatically becomes available at that level. It would take a lot more ink to write the powers out that way, but they *could* have done so - and it would be clear that a 5th level version of Mind Thrust does - guess what - 9d10 damage with a will st DC 15+stat for 9pp.Cheers</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 1562690, member: 114"] You have misunderstood what the augmentation means. psions use pp for activating powers. 1pp for a 1st level power, 9pp for a 5th level power. If a 1st level power is augmented to 9pp (say Mind Thrust) it is the equivalent of the psion using a 5th level power from his repetoire, and it is given the DC of a 5th level power. (DC11+stat becomes DC11+4+stat == DC15+stat) That is all there is to it. The DC's are exactly the same as a spell of the equivalent "cost". (excepting the two powers where an error has crept in and it suggests +1DC per pp - the fact that they are different to *every other* power and break the obvious conceptual model points to the fact they are errors. Just use the standard exemplified in all other damaging powers for them). - for another way of looking at it... imagine the augmentations as power chains instead. When a psion learns the power "Mind Thrust" he learns a 1st level, 2nd level, 3rd level etc version of it - as he gains access to a new level of powers that spell automatically becomes available at that level. It would take a lot more ink to write the powers out that way, but they *could* have done so - and it would be clear that a 5th level version of Mind Thrust does - guess what - 9d10 damage with a will st DC 15+stat for 9pp. Cheers [/QUOTE]

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