Psionics users: do you use psicrystals? how?

[Driddle]

The Only problem I see with that is the big benefit a Familiar feat (even if it is for Wizards/Sorcerers only) would grant.
I am trying to do something like that IMC but I still couldn't find the best way to make it =\

??? You lost me there.
Just pull the 1st level familiar ability off the class progression and plug in a "bonus feat" instead, with the requirement that it be taken as either a familiar or metamagic feat.
The feat itself? "You get a familiar."

 

[Matafuego]

Yes I get that. What I meant was that I think the Familiar is too much benefit (to be substituted for a Feat, even if it's ANY feat) it grants not only Mechanical Benefits but a Scout Ally and sometimes a potential Battle Ally.

 

[Driddle]

Yes I get that. What I meant was that I think the Familiar is too much benefit (to be substituted for a Feat, even if it's ANY feat) it grants not only Mechanical Benefits but a Scout Ally and sometimes a potential Battle Ally.

Yeah. But that's what a familiar is. Making it a "feat" doesn't change its value to the current mage classes. That's exactly what they're getting now - no more or less powerful.

 

[Calico_Jack73]

Yeah. But that's what a familiar is. Making it a "feat" doesn't change its value to the current mage classes. That's exactly what they're getting now - no more or less powerful.

So make the Prereq the ability to cast 1st level Arcane spells. That way, even Bards can get them if they want to spend one of their few feats on them (and it won't be their 1st level one either).

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

In a PBEM I'm in, we're all psychic, and almost all of us have psicrystals. (The group will update to the XPH soon.) They're great for communicating and spotting invisible creatures (I think in 3.5 they can't do this anymore).

In the XPH the feat by itself doesn't do much, but the next feat Psicrystal Containment is neat. Of course, it's not a must-have feat, but it is really cool.

 

[Henry]

I have NEVER used the Psicrystal my current Elf Psion has - it was basically a sitting bonus, and a bonus I frequently FORGOT I had, too boot! Because the DM never took an interest in it, it sat with the personality of... well... a rock.

In revising my Psion to 3.5, I removed the Psicrystal totally, because it never fit the concept to begin with; I originally took it for the bonus it granted, envisioning cool spy-work for it to do later; truth is, the spying never mattered until higher level, so it sat unused. I am glad to see some of the other features (the legs, the telepathic link, etc.) are kicking in at lower levels, so maybe their use will spread a little if people have to really pay for them to get them.

 

[Matafuego]

Yeah. But that's what a familiar is. Making it a "feat" doesn't change its value to the current mage classes. That's exactly what they're getting now - no more or less powerful.

No of course if he chooses to keep the familiar he is exactly as he is now. But if he chooses not to have the familiar he's getting less than he would normally have.

But this was a debate about psycristals and I have takne athe attention away, sorry