XPH: Sell it to me

[Sir Elton]

Alright,

I'm a Bruce R. Cordell fanboy, and I enjoyed the first book. But tell me in your own words, why I should pick it up instead of downloading the XPH SRD when it is released?

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Isn't this kind of a dangerous request?

I mean, aren't you just opening your mind for all the psions? And what will they do to your poor brain while they plant suggestions for you to buy the book?

All I'm saying is that if you start clucking like a chicken every time you hear the word "parsnip" don't come running to me.

 

[The_Gneech]

Isn't this kind of a dangerous request?

I mean, aren't you just opening your mind for all the psions? And what will they do to your poor brain while they plant suggestions for you to buy the book?

All I'm saying is that if you start clucking like a chicken every time you hear the word "parsnip" don't come running to me.

Parsnip?

-The Gneech ("Buck bucaw, buck-buck, bucaw...")

 

[I'm A Banana]

Deja Vu is printed twice.

You can't get that sort of comic collectability with the SRD!!!

 

[drnuncheon]

As an addendum, can anyone tell me how the XPH works with Mindscapes?

 

[Particle_Man]

The XPH has no psionic combat rules. So it is compatible with Mindscapes, but does not presume Mindscapes-style psionic combat.

 

[alaric]

Buying an product is how you vote in a capitalist society. Buy buying the book instead of just reading the SRD you are encouraging Wizards to produce more books like this. You give more clout to Bruce (good for Bruce and those that like his books) and you give more weight to psionic books (good for those of us that like psionics). That's well worth the $35 (-15% for FLGS Book Addict discount) to me.

 

[Davelozzi]

As an addendum, can anyone tell me how the XPH works with Mindscapes?

Particle_Man is correct. Also, Malhavoc Press is releasing another psionics adventure/supplement later this year that's supposed to update the relavant parts of Mindscapes and If Thoughts Could Kill to the new rules. But considering that the new psion has more PPs, bonus feats, and can augument powers (similar, though broader than the old power scaling rule), there's not really much from those books to update. I assume that it will basically just reprint the optional psi-combat system (slightly tweaked maybe) and update a few other feats and powers. But a big chunk of those powers were translations of old attack/defense modes into regular powers (which are now in the XPH) and powers that provided varying degrees of DR (which could now be combined into one augumentable power), so really they're going to have to come up with a good amount of new stuff if they're going to make it worth buying for those os us more interested in rule than a new psionic adventure.

But to answer the original poster's question, the new book is great, but the changes are pretty substantial. As far as I'm concerned, it's more what psioincs should be (augumentable, flexible, focused on stuff traditionally thought of as mind powers) and less what it shouldn't (finger of fire, whitefire and other evocation style powers are gone).

 

[Sir Elton]

Buying an product is how you vote in a capitalist society. Buy buying the book instead of just reading the SRD you are encouraging Wizards to produce more books like this. You give more clout to Bruce (good for Bruce and those that like his books) and you give more weight to psionic books (good for those of us that like psionics). That's well worth the $35 (-15% for FLGS Book Addict discount) to me.

That leaves me one problem. Anyone know how I can get a real job? Writing is drudgery with out one.