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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 9364891" data-attributes="member: 87792">The Illusionist wasn't a completely separate spellcaster in 2e. To quote "The illusionist is an example of a specialist." They were just specialist wizards in 2e rather than having entirely different spell lists in 1e.They are however psychic. And work. The psion sucks up the air in the room. The Aberrant Mind however does just about everything the Psion did other than splurges 70 pages of custom spells onto the system.So ... psychics never transcend their flesh in fiction? They never ascend in any way? Right. And let's look at what those possibilities of Revelation In Flesh actually are rather than a summary of the fluff - and remember you don't actually have to use them.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can see invisible creatures. Something no psychic should be able to do ever. (This is honestly far weaker than it should be)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can fly easily and reliably (and without concentrating) but your body shines or you gain an aura as you do so. Something that e.g. Jean Grey (or any other telekinetic) has never done in the history of ever</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can swim and breathe underwater and have some mechanism to gather the oxygen from the water. I mean that's much more rarely a thing but I can't think of any time e.g. Phoenix went underwater and came back up. Oh, wait.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can squeeze through gaps and escape grabs - the only tenticular option here</li> </ul>So you are literally objecting to there being a niche ability to spend a power point to warp your flesh. At level 14. Unless you think that very powerful psychics shouldn't be able to see invisible creatures, fly easily using their telekinesis, or fly underwater and handle breathing as they do so.For that matter the ability you are objecting to literally gives high level psychics the ability to fly easily at the cost of a mere single power point and without using concentration. That's the sort of revelation it is. And yet it is this ability that somehow causes people to think it's the worst possibility ever.If you don't like the most niche of one of the options at a certain level you don't have to use it.And now you're revealing you don't actually either know or care about sorcerer lore in 5e. Bloodlines are a Pathfinder sorcerer thing not a D&D thing. There's a reason it's the Aberrant Mind Sorcerer not the Aberrant Bloodline Sorcerer which appears in Pathfinder 1e.</blockquote>

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