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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marcus Smythe" data-source="post: 3009662" data-attributes="member: 43198">Oh, and by the way...  I'm still curious as to the response to:"Why Psionics is Broken, and what is needed to fix it"Psionics suffers from an inflexible concept of power knowledge, limiting the ability of the Psion to fill the 'problem-solver' role in the party normally required of D4 classes.This stems from a number of factors:1.) Feat Shortage. Its difficult to emulate a Wizard when your down two feats right out the door. (Down three or four if you count the cost of actually USING metamagic, but... the Psion is a more casual user of metamagic than the Wizard, so this is a bonus).1a.) Change Psions to recieve Psycrstals and Enscribe Power Stone for free at first level, same as Scribe Scroll and Familiar. Note that Psicrystals are better in some ways than Familiar... but OTOH, a raven is just a raven. A rock with ectoplasmic legs skittering along the ceiling draws comment.2.) Any psion is by definition closed off from getting a vast majority of the basic 'wizarding options' that he needs to fill the wizard role in parties.2a.) Allow Psions to choose freely from other discipline lists, perhaps limit them to one level lower than their current max level knowable.3.) The psions need to pour PSPs into powers to keep them functional causes him to have shorter legs than the wizard.3a.) While I'm tempted to suggest 'free scaling' up to the common breakpoint for Psions (IE, up to 10 dice for lvl 3 powers, etc), that might be a bit much.4.) Psion mainstay powers, being low level, tend to fail in the presence of dispels or Globes.4a.) Every two PsPs spent to enhance a power should also increase its level by 1 for purposes of effects that tend to cancel or counter said power.</blockquote>

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