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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 940671" data-attributes="member: 1165">A couple of things1) Psionics are generally underpowered (especially due to MAD), but there are some busted things in there, and psionic combat is one of them. Heck, so is MAD, if you exploit it. (Mind Switch? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> )2) The ability to Mind Blast an opponent at 4th-level is very similar to the ability to Disintegrate a character at 3rd-level that second edition psionicists seemed to like. People HATED second edition psionics for precisely this kind of reason.(People are really willing to believe 3e psionics is overpowered because of it's bad rep, but when they see things like Mind Blast at 4th-level it looks like the book is confirming the bad rep.)In many cases, even high costs (eg most of your power points) are not enough to keep the reward in check.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 940671, member: 1165"] A couple of things 1) Psionics are generally underpowered (especially due to MAD), but there are some busted things in there, and psionic combat is one of them. Heck, so is MAD, if you exploit it. (Mind Switch? :rolleyes: ) 2) The ability to Mind Blast an opponent at 4th-level is very similar to the ability to Disintegrate a character at 3rd-level that second edition psionicists seemed to like. [i]People [color=red]HATED[/color] second edition psionics[/i] for precisely this kind of reason. (People are really willing to believe 3e psionics is overpowered because of it's bad rep, but when they see things like Mind Blast at 4th-level it looks like the book is confirming the bad rep.) In many cases, even high costs (eg most of your power points) are not enough to keep the reward in check. [/QUOTE]

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