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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taraxia" data-source="post: 3009396" data-attributes="member: 42426">The ability to semi-Heighten for free is part of the point of psions. It's why they get so few powers known compared to spells known -- because their lower-level powers turn into higher-level powers. This is limited, though, as others have pointed out, and is in any case an *essential feature of the class*. Take it away and you might as well just make Psions into Sorcerers with a different spell list.As far as Eschew Materials, Still Spell and Silent Spell, these are all fairly pointless metamagic feats to take. A character who takes them will be suboptimally built, because Silence doesn't come up often enough to be worth taking a feat to offset, and Still Spell is only useful for those wizards who are wearing armor with an ASF chance, which itself leads to suboptimal builds. And Eschew Materials is just, well, dumb. It makes you marginally more likely to survive being grappled. Woot.This is really like saying a fighter is broken relative to a wizard because a fighter gets Martial Weapon Proficiency, Heavy Armor Proficiency, etc. "for free" rather than having to take the feats. This is why counting feats as a way to compare classes is dumb, because you clearly have fairly pointless feats (Toughness, Eschew Materials, Deft Hands) vs. really good or at least significant feats (Empower Spell, Power Attack, Mobility).I mean, sheesh, are we saying that a wizard who has one level of Outsider HD has a "free feat" because the larger HD gives him the same bonus that Toughness would?</blockquote>

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