Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
[XPH] Psion versus Wizard/Sorcerer
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="ph0rk" data-source="post: 1504906" data-attributes="member: 16266"><p>using a 4th level power, and then a feat, to cast a 4th level spell doesn't seem bad to me.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not familiar with other things the choker form provides, but 3 standard actions (only usable while in that form, mind you) doesn't seem that bad.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>who cares? sure it's nice, but not a game breaker at 7th level</p><p></p><p>Most of the sickest of supernatural abilities are owned by aberrations; check those out.</p><p></p><p>Also; bear in mind that you can't become something with more hit dice than you have manifester levels; no beholder disintegrate at level 7.</p><p></p><p>And, as always, unless the psion is an egoist, they have to spend -another- feat just to get this power, and then they must be level 9, not 7.</p><p></p><p>Find me an ability that a wizard can't do (or a sorceror for that matter) within a level of when an egoist could do it with this feat and power, then we'll talk.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, they won't. It isn't as if the psion has an unlimited number of feats, and on top of that they still can't have energy ball until level 9. thats 3 levels of sorceror PWNAGE until the non-kineticist can even play the same game. And then, once they are playing the same game, the sorceror will be able to toss out well more fully-scaled (not even counting maximized, etc) balls of flaming death than the psion.</p><p></p><p>If you really want to complain about a psionic character out-nuking a Sorceror; check out the wilder.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, Evokers are the masters of evocation spells; Sorcerors pale in comparison.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>What? have you even read what the psionic dominate is like? And, like most good powers, Only a Telepath can get this one without a feat. </p><p>I don't know how you can even compare them; duration concentration? for a telepath?!? A sorceror at 9th level will be able to out dominate a telepath, period. Days per level, people. Can we restrict comparisons to powers -all- psions have access to w/o a feat? It is really easy to just say you can use a feat to get a power without playing a psion and understanding what you -aren't- getting because you're getting a feat with that power. Item creation, anyone?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ph0rk, post: 1504906, member: 16266"] using a 4th level power, and then a feat, to cast a 4th level spell doesn't seem bad to me. Not familiar with other things the choker form provides, but 3 standard actions (only usable while in that form, mind you) doesn't seem that bad. who cares? sure it's nice, but not a game breaker at 7th level Most of the sickest of supernatural abilities are owned by aberrations; check those out. Also; bear in mind that you can't become something with more hit dice than you have manifester levels; no beholder disintegrate at level 7. And, as always, unless the psion is an egoist, they have to spend -another- feat just to get this power, and then they must be level 9, not 7. Find me an ability that a wizard can't do (or a sorceror for that matter) within a level of when an egoist could do it with this feat and power, then we'll talk. No, they won't. It isn't as if the psion has an unlimited number of feats, and on top of that they still can't have energy ball until level 9. thats 3 levels of sorceror PWNAGE until the non-kineticist can even play the same game. And then, once they are playing the same game, the sorceror will be able to toss out well more fully-scaled (not even counting maximized, etc) balls of flaming death than the psion. If you really want to complain about a psionic character out-nuking a Sorceror; check out the wilder. No, Evokers are the masters of evocation spells; Sorcerors pale in comparison. What? have you even read what the psionic dominate is like? And, like most good powers, Only a Telepath can get this one without a feat. I don't know how you can even compare them; duration concentration? for a telepath?!? A sorceror at 9th level will be able to out dominate a telepath, period. Days per level, people. Can we restrict comparisons to powers -all- psions have access to w/o a feat? It is really easy to just say you can use a feat to get a power without playing a psion and understanding what you -aren't- getting because you're getting a feat with that power. Item creation, anyone? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
[XPH] Psion versus Wizard/Sorcerer
Top