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Re: The New, Virtually No-Nonsense Guide to Psions Discussion Thread
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2012, 08:44:42 PM »
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Ego-ist ACF opens up Mantles = quickest largest powers list (outside of an Erudite)

Dip Divine Mind 1 Death Aura/Mantle, to get a cheat-y early qualifying thingie going.
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Re: The New, Virtually No-Nonsense Guide to Psions Discussion Thread
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2012, 02:13:16 PM »
This is from a fairly obscure source (Magic of Eberron), but how would people rate the "Sense Danger" power? (Not the "Danger Sense power!)

In some ways, I could wish it worked on swift actions instead of being very explicitly restricted to standard actions. (Is there an opposite to Quicken Power that allows you to manifest a swift action power as a standard action?) Love to have temporal acceleration on tap!  :cool

I find this works nicely with Synchronicity.

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Re: The New, Virtually No-Nonsense Guide to Psions Discussion Thread
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2012, 02:40:13 PM »
Sense Danger is crazy powerful for its level. If combined with Synchronicity, it is even more broken than Celerity.
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Re: The New, Virtually No-Nonsense Guide to Psions Discussion Thread
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2012, 12:34:01 PM »
I concur with ranking the metapsionic feat "Knockdown Power" as black in conjunction with most powers, but I would add a note that this is a green power when used with the Energy Wall power. Especially if used with the electricity option, which adds +2 to the Reflex save for the power. (And +2 to CL checks to overcome PR)

If there was an option to augment Energy Wall's DC, I'd give this combo a blue rating, but it would still be useful for minion mop-up BFC. Since the save is Reflex, it's still not too bad.

Bonus points for throwing in a Wall of Ectoplasm that they'll be too busy falling down to punch through easily.
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Re: The New, Virtually No-Nonsense Guide to Psions Discussion Thread
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2013, 08:22:03 PM »
Located the Old-Erudite write up.
Looks about the same as the New one.
Excepting the juicy spells powers per level.
And a better Uniques feat.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23355497/Dragon-Magazine-319-Dark-Sun-Player-s-Handbook
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Re: The New, Virtually No-Nonsense Guide to Psions Discussion Thread
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2013, 05:21:21 PM »
tangents, since I can't post on the handbooks side ...


Somebody went off and made a Divine Mind guide, really.
Straining Credulity: The Divine Mind Handbook
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Dictum Mortuum ... is the author of the BG Lurk guide, and here:
http://dictummortuum.blogspot.com/2011/08/lurks-handbook.html
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Re: The New, Virtually No-Nonsense Guide to Psions Discussion Thread
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2014, 08:28:28 PM »
Grey elves are actually better than Sun elves, unless you're a Str-based gish.

Grey elf: +2 Dex, +2 Int, -2 Str, -2 Con
Sun elf: +2 Int, -2 Con

So the grey elf gets a bump to your primary stat and a secondary stat, and a penalty to a secondary stat (con) and to a dump stat (str).
The sun elf gets a bump to your primary and a penalty to a secondary.
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Re: The New, Virtually No-Nonsense Guide to Psions Discussion Thread
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2014, 06:56:03 PM »
 :o ... Mythic Exemplar 3 with Reikhardt can be used
by a Divine Mind to advance its aura ability(-ies).
And with bloodline trickery.
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