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<blockquote data-quote="DreamChaser" data-source="post: 3692873" data-attributes="member: 1190"><p>Certainly...if every day you knew that there would at some point be a PP draining enemy (and if those enemies could easily reduce you to zero PP), this would be the exact result.</p><p></p><p>That is not what I was positing. Within the rules as they stand, a PP drain is unlikely to reduce a psion to nothing unless it is significantly above CR. Instead, it acts to make PP a clearly valuable resource...one for which there is a very real drawback to squandering.</p><p></p><p>If I have 30 PP (5th level psion with Int 15) and I want to last the day to keep up with the evoker who can cast 5 0, 5 1st, 4 2nd, and 3 3rd (17 total) spells each day, I need to be careful. I can in theory wipe myself out in 6 powers (none of which will actually do more die of damage than the wizards spells mind you). By the same token, I can blow the wizard out of the water by using 30 level 1 powers with no augment. Somewhere in between is a compromise (which coincidentally enough is 18 powers).</p><p></p><p>Now, lets say I am well aware of the danger of a though eater (CR 2). In my second encounter of the day, my wizard buddy and I meet one. Easy breezy for us, in theory but each touch of the creature drops my potential by 20%. Clearly I want to avoid him and blow him out of the water, but unless I'm prepared to call it quits for the day, I can't very well afford to blow my PP; nor would I have been better off blowing them in encounter one. I just need to be smart enough to avoid him, and have enough PP that when all is said and done, I can still use powers (even if it is fewer of them) for the rest of the day.</p><p></p><p>DC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DreamChaser, post: 3692873, member: 1190"] Certainly...if every day you knew that there would at some point be a PP draining enemy (and if those enemies could easily reduce you to zero PP), this would be the exact result. That is not what I was positing. Within the rules as they stand, a PP drain is unlikely to reduce a psion to nothing unless it is significantly above CR. Instead, it acts to make PP a clearly valuable resource...one for which there is a very real drawback to squandering. If I have 30 PP (5th level psion with Int 15) and I want to last the day to keep up with the evoker who can cast 5 0, 5 1st, 4 2nd, and 3 3rd (17 total) spells each day, I need to be careful. I can in theory wipe myself out in 6 powers (none of which will actually do more die of damage than the wizards spells mind you). By the same token, I can blow the wizard out of the water by using 30 level 1 powers with no augment. Somewhere in between is a compromise (which coincidentally enough is 18 powers). Now, lets say I am well aware of the danger of a though eater (CR 2). In my second encounter of the day, my wizard buddy and I meet one. Easy breezy for us, in theory but each touch of the creature drops my potential by 20%. Clearly I want to avoid him and blow him out of the water, but unless I'm prepared to call it quits for the day, I can't very well afford to blow my PP; nor would I have been better off blowing them in encounter one. I just need to be smart enough to avoid him, and have enough PP that when all is said and done, I can still use powers (even if it is fewer of them) for the rest of the day. DC [/QUOTE]
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