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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9677215" data-attributes="member: 58172">Psion Slot 2{Animal Messenger}, [Augury], Blindness/Deafness, Calm Emotions, Crown of Madness, Detect Thoughts, Enhance Ability, Enlarge/Reduce, Enthrall, {Heat Metal}, Hold Person, Invisibility, Knock, [Levitate], {Locate Animals or Plants}, {Magic Mouth}, Mind Spike, Mirror Image, Phantasmal Force, See Invisibility, Shatter, Silence, Suggestion, Tashas Mind Whip*, {Zone of Truth}.TELEPATH FLAVOR SPELLSCalm Emotions, Crown of Madness, Detect Thoughts, Enthrall, Mind Spike, Mirror Image, Phantasmal Force, Suggestion, Tashas Mind Whip.A Ritual List (not the Spell List!)Animal Messenger, Locate Animal or Plants, Magic Mouth, Zone of Truth.As one can see, the Psion base class leans heavily into telepathic flavor. The Telepath subclass needs ways to stand out distinctively. Meanwhile many telepathic spells are less suitable for combat. Maybe the Telepath also takes over all of the Shaper aspects as well, in the sense of blurring subjective and objective reality. The Shaper spells gives oomph to the anemic Telepath subclass. Thus when comparing the UA Psion subclasses with 2e and 3e, the following organization emerges:• Telepath = reality = Telepath + Shaper• Psi Warper = spacetime = Teleport + Seer• Psykinetic• Metamorph[Edit: Later I reseparate Telepath and Shaper. There are so many telepathic spells. The Shaper has enough relevant spells to sustain its own distinctive category.](SHAPER FLAVOR SPELLS)Invisibility, See InvisibilityHere, the invisibility is understood as distorting reality, rather than telekinetically bending light, or telepathically cloaking oneself as a kind of phantasmal effect.METAMORPH FLAVOR SPELLSBlindness/Deafness, Enhance Ability, Enlarge/Reduce, Hold Person.PSI WARPER FLAVOR SPELLS[Augury], Knock, Shatter.The Augury spell, in other words being "psychic". And of course it must not have the unnecessary gp Costly Material component.PSYKINETIC FLAVOR SPELLS[Levitate], Silence.Relating to Fly, Levitate conveys the telekinetic flight of the Psykinetic flavor. I relocate the spell from where it was in the Psi Warper subclass spell list, to here in the main Psion class spell list. Mechanically, the spell is less competitive with other spells in the same slot, but levitation is a common trope and might apply to various kinds of Psions.ELEMENTALIST FLAVOR SPELLSHeat Metal. I prefer the Elemental spells only be in a subclass rather than the base Psion class.</blockquote>

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