This sounds like a scene from Neuromancer 
Is it a bad thing that I have the entire Sprawl trilogy on my Kindle?
Well, then, derp. lol.
Now you are an awkward eyed pony
Do you want to leave psi as-is? Because it's much more similar to traditional spellcasting than invocations, and has many fo the same problems... If you're willing to tweak, though, then Garryl has a psi-invoking soulknife and a psionic warblade (like an arcane swordsage).
And agreed on ToB, I love it and have homebrewed many initiators.
Oh hell no, the players interested in the game are already talking about mindraping people into willingly consenting to give up XP for wish generating SilverOuts
Nerf it down to PsyWar progression if you have anything that uses the Psion/Wilder list and does that
I'd love to see any Psionic classes and Invocation classes you would personally recommend
Also, let's talk currency. I know, I know, our friends the Grammarists can't create money-grade gold/silver, but why risk it? After all, you can doctor the gold/silver, and, hell, grammaric gold and silver are probably more valuable pound-by-pound than their non-grammaric counterparts (they're easier to get your hands on, it probably has been modified in other ways...)
The currency problem is something that I keep coming back too, with mixed results. More or less anything I come up to use for currency using Gramarie can be created just as well (if not better), by another Gramarist with the exact same principle as them. I really like your idea with using Cursed Lead, but the problem would be that any Gramarist can do exactly the same thing once they attain Doctorate level Principles and bam, "lol infinite muneh!". It's nerve wracking really... I was thinking of using Sunmetal to contradict myself a little bit...
A Shop owner, prior to making a sale places all of the Currency into a LeadIn (which directs into a WoodOut, want not waste not and all) and pumps the Currency full of Puissance causing it to explode and generating radiomantic energy... Or we could just use Starmetal which can't be created by ALCH, but varifying Starmetal is a problem since it is VERY similar to Adamantine (which incidentally, also cannot be reproduced by Gramarie... Hmmm?). This might be crazy of me to suggest, but why not use materials that a Gramarist cannot replicate? They can have the exact same value on these worlds as the almighty Platinum, Gold, Silver and Copper piece, but for all statistically purposes are exactly as Adamantine or something?
Also, you can "Fool's Gold" it up, using Imachination to make fucking pebbles into gold bricks.
This is where I like the idea of Cursed Lead to clear the away an IMCH created illusion
So, I'm reminded of a trilogy by the British SpecFic writer Peter F. Hamilton; the Night's Dawn trilogy. In it, the dead are coming back by possessing the living, and as an incidental consequence of that whole "thing", can basically generate really, really high level Imachination illusions at will. One of the issues that comes up in the second book (wherein Al Capone comes back, and starts an interplanetary/interstellar empire consisting of a combination of the dead and the living, an accomplishment since the dead are afraid of the sky (and the dark, and space in general. It reminds them of the awful, awful afterlife). It is a series you pretty much need to read at some point.) is that, in a culture where people can, you know, create an unlimited amount of any material substance (pretty much, or near enough, at least), you can't use physical currency.
And so, they use entirely electronic banking.
But what to base it on, in this case, since physical substances can't be trusted? How about hours labored?
One way that this could be handled is having three "tiers" of monetary value, with a varying exchange rate set by a central bank in each culture.
You'd have the "base" hour, which would be the cost for one Baccalaureate principle preparation or an hour of common labor.
You'd then have the next step up, which would the cost for one Magisterial principle preparation or an hour of skilled labor.
The final step would be the equivalent of a single preparation of a Doctorate level principle; I can't think of a mundane equivalent.
The idea is that your amount of money under this system is closer to "I can exchange this much money for this much grammaristic stuff."
Hmm... using labor as a form of currency? Doesn't that put the Gramarist a sort of unfair advantage because they can simply use Spectroconstruction to create whatever they'd need? Physical material only can't be trusted if it can be easily created by someone with an agenda. If that material CANNOT be created, then it can be trusted as a form of currency (maybe...)
Alright, now how would you keep track of said money using Grammarie? There isn't a single method of storing cash that would be foolproof; well, there is one, but you'd need a 10th level Dreamason to do it (it involves overlapping a Zeitgeist, a Heuristic Net that covers an entire city, and personal Nets around everyone, and also requires that the nets can "talk" to each-other), and that's... infeasible, unless...
We're trying to keep track of the currency being used in the world? Hmm... that is a seriously tough thing to solve without creating a serious issue... I mean if you have a radar that tells you where everyone with at least one Starmetal Sovereign is, they you create a hell of a problem in that Big Brother is always watching... I might use that... maybe...
For this setting, what's the level range? You said that we're basing this off of Eberron, which would imply low-level stuff.
15th is the highest level ever attained in this world. Anything beyond this is simply... Amazing
(Or an Ancient Gramarist from the Empire of Faelorian Empire)
I just read up the thread a bit. So that method is completely infeasible.
Thinking back, I can't honestly see a reason to not allow GEOC 374. It allows a Gramarical Empire to set up an entire city in just a few days (which should be happening anyhow). I've edited the list to allow for it. (I recall the previous idea being the use of Deadsnow... I think it was your Blueprint that inspired such fear
You'd have to heat the lead each time, to get all the water off, and then just let your water freeze back into a little chunk, and bam. An almost certifiable way to have currency in a world with unethical grammarists.
My original idea was using heated Ice with an altered heat durability to be able to withstand the heat of the Sun, until I realized "Oh... you can do this at level 7...)
I like it -- I think it very believable.
I concur. In fact, using a Zeitgeist as a police force would prove more effective then anything else
Barter would probably be what it boils down to...
WELL! Bartering rules are fairly awesome and the RP~ the beautiful, beautiful RP~
Wait.
I just figured out the one thing that can't be duplicated by Grammarie.
Fruit and vegetables. Sure, you can grow trees in a Biome, or create food (create food specifically states it creates a kind of gruel, if i remember correctly) with SilverOuts, but there's no way to quickly make, say, strawberries.
I can imagine scenes where a shopkeeper would shout "There is NO WAY! I AM TRADING ALL MY APPLES FOR THAT HAT!"
I'm reminded of Terry Pratchet's Dark Side of the Sun, where caviar is a common food on one particular world (due to it being really common), while apples are expensive as hell.
I'm now picturing strawberries and celery being solemnly exchanged in Cursed Lead-lined chambers, and stored on Carmot plates in vaults. It's a hilarious mental image.
I like the way you think
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