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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wyrdone" data-source="post: 7675582" data-attributes="member: 89165">3 for now.  There's no reason to assume they won't be releasing more disciplines for each order, or that as you continue to level past 5 you won't gain access to more of those disciplines.  Continuing the progression in the PDF you might have access to 5 disciplines at level 11, and 8 disciplines at level 20.But your point about versatility is right.  And it has always been one key way that Psionics differ mechanically from Spell casting.  It makes for a different play-style where you need to decide if you're going to blow all of your points on a handful of bigger effects, or fire out a ton of small ones all day long.  I don't want to see it homogenized to work more like the spell casters, I want options!Extrapolating out from what we have so far I'd say, aside from Intellect Fortress, that each discipline is going to have one powered ability per manifestor level, so 9 total powers per discipline.  They won't always be 1, 3, 5, 7, 9... etc points, some of the current ones have 1, 1, 5, so some may offer two level 2 powers no level 3 power, then a level 4 power, and so on.So a max level mystic should have access to 8 disciplines, each one containing 9 powers and a passive concentration effect.  That's 72 powers in their mental bank, though they have to spend actions to switch between different groups of 9.  After that it's up to the Psion to decide if they're going to blow all their points on 7 level 9 powers (assuming a cap of 133 power points) or if they're going to meter them out a bit more.Given the other spell casters mechanics on level 6-9 spells I wouldn't be surprised to see the discipline powers that cost 11, 13, 15, and 17 power points have a rider saying they can only be manifested once per day.  I just wonder if they're going to have that apply per discipline, or have it be across the board to reflect that all other caster-types only get 1 spell of levels 6-9 per day.Personally I want Psionics to be mechanically different, that's a big part of why I've been playing almost exclusively psionic characters since AD&D 2nd Edition.  I skipped them in 4th edition because in that version all of the classes were largely, mechanically the same and Psions didn't feel different enough.</blockquote>

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