Vancian Magic: Yea or Nay

[Fax Celestis]

Duly noted. But why bother to mix them when you get all you need right from that source? I'm not saying to take power points from each source to make a bigger spell, just use what you get from each. managed effectively, and you get plenty of extra juice.

Large quantities of "free power points" are incredibly expensive. Manifester Shields, for instance, give you 3 PP, which essentially means an unaugmented second-level power, for 18000 gp. That's nowhere near cheap. Mindfeeder is a +3 bonus, meaning its at least 16,000 on a weapon and you can't put more frequently usable abilities on it--Mindfeeder is once-a-day, after-crit only.

Even Skin of the Psion only gives 7 PP (one unaugmented 4th level power) and power resist 21, for 151,000 gp. That's expensive, especially since figuring out the price of the item comes out to be 61,000 gp for the power points alone.

And try again, I don't see any items that offer additional spells/day that you get to choose the use for. Yeah, there's some that grant their own powers, but that's a limited selection. With psion powers, it's anything you want.

It's any power you already know, which is an important distinction. It may mean you have slightly more stamina in the long run, but it also means your versatility is drastically less. And as for spells/day you get to choose? How about pearls of power?