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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yair" data-source="post: 3619460" data-attributes="member: 10913">I have a rules question, and a request for advice.First, the rules question: I've been interpreting Split Psionics Ray to mean that the character can choose to target the same target twice. Reading over the feat's description, though, and keeping in mind that it costs less than Maximize Power, I suspect I might be mistaken! Is Split Psionic Ray meant to affect each target once, i.e. you cannot target the same target with both rays? Now to the advice.I have a character with the following combination of feats: [Edit: replaced Linked Power with Metapower; sorry for the confusion]Split Psionic RayEmpower PowerMetapower (Split Psionic Ray + Energy Ray) [Complete Psionic]Metapower (Empower Power + Split Energy Ray)[plus Psicrystal Affinity and Psicrystal Containment so he could spend two focuses on casting the  empowered split psionic ray]This allows him to do 1d6+1 x 2 x 1.5 = 3d6+3 damage per power point spent. At level 5, with Overchannel, this amounts to 18d6+18 (81 hp). (For comparison, a vanilla application of energy ray with 6 pp would do 27 hp of damage. If I limit him to a single ray per target, his damage will drop to 40.5 hp per target.)I think Metapower is broken. It allows the character to do more damage per power point spent. No matter the other costs (feats, powers), the end result is that the character does more damage per power point, which unbalances the game. I think the Metapower feat should be eliminated; at the very least, it should be weakened (perhaps reducing the cost by 1 instead of by 2; this will lead to 4d6+4 x 2 x 1.5 = 2 x (6d6+6) = 2 x 27 hp). I've so far handled this by not raising the character a level, while leveling the rest of the party. This ain't much of a long-term solution <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I'm looking for ideas on how to resolve things.[Edit: replaced Linked Power with Metapower; sorry for the confusion]</blockquote>

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