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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1596944" data-attributes="member: 478">Erm, Impossible?1 PP ~ 1st level slot3 PP ~ 2nd level slot...17 PP ~ 9th level slotIt's fairly easy to seperate the Psion's PP pool into smaller bits, something resembling slots.Now you can take a couple of the lower "slots" and merge them together to a higher "slot" or the other way around, which is what the Psion can do with the PP pool, since it isn't really seperated into slots.This is flexibility.It results in Psions being able to manifest A LOT of high level powers per day, something the slot system does put severe limits on.The other way is not very useful however, while Psions can "split up" higher level "slots" to manifest lots and lots and lots of lower level powers (unaugmented or just very few augmentation), those powers are usually not very powerful.This flexibility is exactly the reason, why augmentation costs PP and why psionics do not scale! If they would scale, this "splitting" of higher level "slots" would be ridiculously powerful!It's not just flavor, it's a balance reason (been so since first introducing psionics in 3.0)!You have to consider this, otherwise a comparison between spells and powers has no meaning, because it doesn't address why augmentation costs PP. Saying this is a disadvantage compared to spells and then saying that you cannot compare the systems on that level (as shown above), just removes the advantage, which is balanced by this disadvantage.Of course, powers look weaker then. Not hard to see that.ByeThanee</blockquote>

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