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<blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1492865" data-attributes="member: 478"><p>Yep, I think the spells and powers are pretty much equal (as much as you can say that about such different approaches).</p><p></p><p>Powers have the advantage of being upgradeable infinitely, but do not scale automatically, while spells automatically scale, but are capped and need to be replaced by higher versions or similar higher level spells, or need metamagic to achieve a compareable result. This gives psions a little edge, as they also get the higher level powers in addition, but then again, their selection is quite a bit smaller, where they have to choose from.</p><p></p><p>The non-scaling and augmentability also solves a problem with higher level psions, which could manifest huge amounts of low level powers. While this is still possible, those won't be very useful in most cases. This way psions actually have a similar amount of powers per day compared to the spellcasters, not many more. Still, they have a lot more flexibility and most importantly, the ability to manifest a large amount of high level powers at the expense of the lower level ones. This gets continually stronger the higher levels the psion reaches (not sure how this will affect epic levels, tho).</p><p></p><p>Bye</p><p>Thanee</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thanee, post: 1492865, member: 478"] Yep, I think the spells and powers are pretty much equal (as much as you can say that about such different approaches). Powers have the advantage of being upgradeable infinitely, but do not scale automatically, while spells automatically scale, but are capped and need to be replaced by higher versions or similar higher level spells, or need metamagic to achieve a compareable result. This gives psions a little edge, as they also get the higher level powers in addition, but then again, their selection is quite a bit smaller, where they have to choose from. The non-scaling and augmentability also solves a problem with higher level psions, which could manifest huge amounts of low level powers. While this is still possible, those won't be very useful in most cases. This way psions actually have a similar amount of powers per day compared to the spellcasters, not many more. Still, they have a lot more flexibility and most importantly, the ability to manifest a large amount of high level powers at the expense of the lower level ones. This gets continually stronger the higher levels the psion reaches (not sure how this will affect epic levels, tho). Bye Thanee [/QUOTE]
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