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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 3696038" data-attributes="member: 2011">You must be. I'm too much of a realist to think that I should be telling my players how to play or not play their PCs.DMs can limit what PC abilities come into their game and it's ok to make a suggestion to a player, but telling players how to not play their PCs stinks of DM manipulation.We are not talking alignment here, we are talking combat decisions.My defintion of Novaing is different from yours and possibly that is why we are having a disconnect. Novaing is wiping out the opposition and whittling down their numbers as quickly as possible at a high PP cost over multiple rounds because unlike virtually any other class (at least at low to mid levels), the Psion can do so in a few rounds. It just costs him a lot of resources to do so. It is not necessarily using up all of his PP (but it might be) and typically is not (i.e. encounters tend to end quicker if a Psion is doing full augmentations and there is usually nobody left to continue spending PP on).Look at a first level Wizard. Two worthwhile first level spells. Are you stating that he should never cast both of them in the first combat of the day? He should die before casting that second spell?Ditto for a first level Human Psion with only 3 PP. He should never ever ever use all 3 PP up in a single encounter (when he might have used 1 for Inertial Armor before the encounter even starts)?That appears to be what you are claiming.I do not disagree that it is wise for a player to rarely use up all of his PC's PP in a single encounter, but I would never tell him to never do it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 3696038, member: 2011"] You must be. I'm too much of a realist to think that I should be telling my players how to play or not play their PCs. DMs can limit what PC abilities come into their game and it's ok to make a suggestion to a player, but telling players how to not play their PCs stinks of DM manipulation. We are not talking alignment here, we are talking combat decisions. My defintion of Novaing is different from yours and possibly that is why we are having a disconnect. Novaing is wiping out the opposition and whittling down their numbers as quickly as possible at a high PP cost over multiple rounds because unlike virtually any other class (at least at low to mid levels), the Psion can do so in a few rounds. It just costs him a lot of resources to do so. It is not necessarily using up all of his PP (but it might be) and typically is not (i.e. encounters tend to end quicker if a Psion is doing full augmentations and there is usually nobody left to continue spending PP on). Look at a first level Wizard. Two worthwhile first level spells. Are you stating that he should never cast both of them in the first combat of the day? He should die before casting that second spell? Ditto for a first level Human Psion with only 3 PP. He should never ever ever use all 3 PP up in a single encounter (when he might have used 1 for Inertial Armor before the encounter even starts)? That appears to be what you are claiming. I do not disagree that it is wise for a player to rarely use up all of his PC's PP in a single encounter, but I would never tell him to never do it. [/QUOTE]

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