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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 2150705" data-attributes="member: 2011">Actually, OverChannel is over rated, especially at low level.We have two players playing a psion in our group and both of us took OverChannel and the DM allowed us to revise our characters after two weeks because none of us were familiar with psionics and both of us got rid of it.OverChannel can be pretty nice, but I think it is only useful at mid to higher levels. At low level, there are several problems with it:1) The extra hit points of damage. With D4 hit points, a character just cannot handle many D8 damage situations.2) The avoidance of problem #1 means taking Talented. So yes you can boost powers, but at the cost of two feats. That's pricey, even at mid or higher level. There is another way to avoid problem #1 and that is to use Vigor. However, this solution eats up PP faster and it takes an extra round to complete.3) A problem with OverChannel that is not often remembered is the PP cost. A first level human psion with a 16 Int that uses OverChannel/Talented uses up 2/3rds of his points manifesting a single power. I am currently running a 6th level Psion and it is very easy to run out of PP in a given day. I cannot imagine how much faster I would run out of PP if I OverChanneled my powers.4) Finally, a well designed Psion has to be more well tuned than a Sorcerer. There are just too few powers and feats available (I have no idea how people run Wilders <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). Using up two feats and losing out on so many other versatile options is hard to justify, at least for me. If you take OverChannel/Talented, you give up a range of other abilities.OverChannel is nice, but it is not uber. IMO.</blockquote>

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