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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silam" data-source="post: 9863465" data-attributes="member: 7055898">I think one potential path would be to look at it from the other perspective…I mentioned, earlier in the thread, that rather than stipulating that psionic spellcasting requires no material components except when the material component has a cost, they could instead make the Psion spell list contain no such spells. Someone responded that this would be too restrictive and that psions really "needed" those spells. But do they really?Let’s step back from Psions for a second and compare Sorcerers and Wizards. What’s the difference? Wizards get a fair amount of extra spells on their list compared to Sorcerers, including some that they share with Druids, Bards, etc, but also including Wizard-exclusive ones. I would argue that in exchange for this versatility, the Wizard class features are not that strong. The Sorcerer’s metamagic is pretty nice, while the Wizard’s Arcane Recovery and stuff like that is welcome but not super strong by any means. Ritual casting fits well in the theme of giving Wizards more versatility, but is not ultra strong either.Now let’s bring back Psions into the mix. What if Psions are a more extreme form of Sorcery? In some ways, even better than Sorcerers (such as not being able to counter them by silencing them, paralyzing them, confiscating their gear), but in exchange for this resilience to adversity, they pay for it by giving up versatility. No spells with costly components on their lists. Or no spells with more than 1 out of 3 components (but which they then get to forego). Something like that.</blockquote>

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