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In article <4r12ve$59f@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu>, brp@po.CWRU.Edu says... />>I was looking at the psi handbook the other day.....and wondered /what/ /> />>kind of restricions should you put on a psionist being able to use /th />e />>empower power? />>Acording to what's written in the spell desc your level 6 psi could /> />First, Empower requires that the Psionicist be level 11 as a /prerequis />ite />for its use. Forgot about this, but it's still DAM powerful for a level 11 to be carrying around 20+ empowered weapins.... >>just buy a really nice high-quality dagger and empower it with tons a >nd >>tons of powers, seal it, then he'd have a weapon more powerful than a > >>number really munchkin magic swords....What can I do to prevent him >>from just knocking off daggers of >>dominiation/disintigration/telekenesis/detonate/whateverthehell and >>giveing 2 out to every party memeber??? I know makeing the daggers ha >rd >>to get, but its' not very realistic to not let someone with a good de >al >>of gold buy a high quality dagger? >>The ONLY bad thing I can think of is mabey if the weapon gets pissed >>off and has dominate....:) >> >> > >I am wrestling with this same problem, and also the problem that every >empowered item is by definition intelligent, self aware - almost a >self actor. What's worse is that if they just put a couple of powers into it it will have vERY low ego and be easy to control..... Now if they put too much stuff into it:) hehehhe >I am inclined toward requiring that the item not be of exceptional >quality but that the psionicist must spend some time meditating with i >t, >learning the channels that power must flow through the item before he >can begin to empower it (say minimally a month of time where he cannot >adventure or do anything particularly useful otherwise). > >You mentioned a dagger of domination/detonation... which would violate >another restriction on empowered items which is that ALL of the >psionic powers placed into the item MUST BE from the same discipline. Realized this 2 mins after I sent the post:) But were still talking about dominiation/psi blast/mindwipe/invisability/id insiunation, even if only 2 of these are used it's still REALLY powerful.... />My current psionicist in my campaign has just made it to level 11, /and />so I am fairly familiar with how much/little an 11th lvl psi could />be expected to have in one discipline, and quite frankly if they have />empower, and their primary discipline is not telepathy, then they />most likely do not have more that 3 sciences and 6 devotions in their />primary discipline. />