Talk:Psionics (3.5e Sphere)

This is not good. While its true that any psionic character could conceivably gain access to this sphere, primarily Githyanki Paragons will be getting access to it. It is therefor utterly ridiculous to include Greater Magic Weapon at level 5, since not only do Githyanki Paragons already have a scaling magic weapon that is better than this spell would provide, but their entire fluff pretty much surrounds that being their ONLY weapon they use. On top of that, it just seems like a not very exceptionally psionic-themed ability to appear in a psionic sphere.

Also, plane shift and astral projection seem a bit redundant... as well as that flavor wise, it again makes no sense for Githyanki to be astrally projecting themselves onto the plane that they already are physically present within 99.9% of the time. The sphere overall seems to have too much focus on teleporty things, and not enough focus on psionic staples like telepathy, psychometabolism, etc...

Overall, just terrible, and should be rebuilt from the ground up.


 * I agree that there's much more teleportation than is warranted - dimension door and plane shift are staying in since those are actual powers that the Githyanki and Githzerai actually have, but the rest can go away. I honestly don't know what I was thinking regarding GMW, aside from this being a sort of "psychic hunter" sphere, that can go away as well (as far as meshing with the Paragons, note that the Paragons were created *after* this sphere already existed).


 * Psychometabolism doesn't resonate with me at all for psychics. Mostly because it isn't something even similar to what Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jean Grey, or Sarah Kerrigan are known for doing. I'd also like to limit the amount of actual mind-reading and manipulation, since the Violation sphere already exists and has that.


 * It isn't going to be rebuilt from the ground up, as that would be stupid. Replacing the bad SLAs should be sufficient. --Quantumboost 06:33, October 6, 2010 (UTC)