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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1488898" data-attributes="member: 478">Hey!EDIT: Click <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1507181#post1507181" target="_blank">HERE</a> for a more elaborate summary!What do you think about the balance between the new expanded Psionics Handbook and the existing arcane casters?I must admit, that I havn't looked through everything yet, but what I have seen leaves me shuddering.Psions seem extremely overpowered in comparison.From a rough estimation, they have...* As much powers per day as wizards have spells per day, if they distribute evenly.* Many more high level powers per day than any other caster, if they choose so.* Equal or more powers known as sorcerers.* Always more high level powers known as sorcerers.* In addition, low level powers that scale to high level powers, thus even more.* Quicker high level access compared to sorcerers (as wizard).* Bonus Feats, as wizard.* Int as their primary stat, as wizard.* Powers that are one-by-one more powerful than compareable spells.* An about equally broad selection of powers as the arcane casters have spells.So they basically get the best of both worlds plus some goodies like armor and no verbal/somatic compoments.Tell me, how this is balanced, please? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />What have I overlooked?ByeThanee</blockquote>

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