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you randomly
2017-02-11, 07:55 PM
requirements:
bestow power
soul crystal

preferable:
extend power

method:
at the end of the days adventuring manifest soul crystal placing bestow power with 2xml pp in (repeat until dry or comfortable)
when in need of an extra pp boost during the next day pull one of the soul crystals out and manifest bestow power from it max out as many times as needed

extra cheese:
requires quintessence
once you have manifested the soul crystals place them in a container full of quintessence allowing you to save up multiple days of unused pp for when you really needed it

questions, comments, concerns?

InvisibleBison
2017-02-11, 08:05 PM
It seems questionable whether you can put bestow power in a soul crystal. Bestow Power says "Because of the intimate nature of this power, it cannot be fabricated into a psionic item - only power points generated by a psionic creature in the moment can be shared using bestow power." The second half of that sentence in particular could be interpreted to mean that bestow power only works when being manifested by an actual psionic creature, which a soul crystal isn't.

Flickerdart
2017-02-11, 08:12 PM
"You link your mind with another psionic creature’s mind..."

Bestow power can't be used on yourself.

you randomly
2017-02-11, 08:20 PM
It seems questionable whether you can put bestow power in a soul crystal. Bestow Power says "Because of the intimate nature of this power, it cannot be fabricated into a psionic item - only power points generated by a psionic creature in the moment can be shared using bestow power." The second half of that sentence in particular could be interpreted to mean that bestow power only works when being manifested by an actual psionic creature, which a soul crystal isn't.

the fluff from soul crystal says "You call into being a shard of psionic crystal and entice the soul of a powerful psion not yet born to enter the shard."
but the first sentence might still catch out this plan

however, there are some other shenanigans that you might be able to pull off with soul crystal one being using it to share personal powers like fission with the party another possible one from the top of my head is that soul crystal specifically states that it take 1 standard action to manifest so you could use soul crystals to manifest longer manifesting time power in one standard action if you prepare them (which you shouldif you can just dump them in quintessence)

you randomly
2017-02-11, 08:21 PM
"You link your mind with another psionic creature’s mind..."

Bestow power can't be used on yourself.

give it to another party member to use seems to get around that pretty quickly

Flickerdart
2017-02-11, 10:53 PM
give it to another party member to use seems to get around that pretty quickly

Not really. It's still your mind, it's just in a box. Just like how you cannot use fission and then fusion.