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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 2992847" data-attributes="member: 3424">The way I see it, the problem with psionics is that a psion can potentially create more higher-level effects per day than a sorcerer. A sorcerer gets six 9th-level spell slots, six 8th-level spell slots, and six 7th-level spell slots at 20th level, before adding bonus slots for high Charisma. A 20th-level psion who augments all his powers to 20 PP can manifest seventeen such powers, all of which are effectively equivalent to 9th-level spells, from his base PP alone.One way I thought of to balance this was to have some sort of recent manifesting effect that further limited the amount of PP a psionic character can spend on his powers. Say, each power reduces the amount that could be spent on subsequent powers by 2. If a psionic character goes 1 round without spending PP, this cap goes up by 1, to his normal limit. So, in the first round of combat, a 20th-level psion could spend 20 PP on a power. In the second round, he can only spend 18 PP. If he does not manifest any powers on the third round, he could spend 19 PP to manifest a power in the fourth. This will require more bookkeeping for the player running the psionic character, but makes it less likely that he will dominate combat, especially in the later rounds.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 2992847, member: 3424"] The way I see it, the problem with psionics is that a psion can potentially create more higher-level effects per day than a sorcerer. A sorcerer gets six 9th-level spell slots, six 8th-level spell slots, and six 7th-level spell slots at 20th level, before adding bonus slots for high Charisma. A 20th-level psion who augments all his powers to 20 PP can manifest seventeen such powers, all of which are effectively equivalent to 9th-level spells, from his base PP alone. One way I thought of to balance this was to have some sort of recent manifesting effect that further limited the amount of PP a psionic character can spend on his powers. Say, each power reduces the amount that could be spent on subsequent powers by 2. If a psionic character goes 1 round without spending PP, this cap goes up by 1, to his normal limit. So, in the first round of combat, a 20th-level psion could spend 20 PP on a power. In the second round, he can only spend 18 PP. If he does not manifest any powers on the third round, he could spend 19 PP to manifest a power in the fourth. This will require more bookkeeping for the player running the psionic character, but makes it less likely that he will dominate combat, especially in the later rounds. [/QUOTE]

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