Can Psions learn powers from the Psion / Wilder Power list even though those powers belong to other disciplines?


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I am attempting to make a psion for an upcoming session. I am planning to make a psychometabolist psion (egoist). According to what I’ve read on the psion pages, I believe a psion can choose powers to manifest from both their own discipline powers table and the Psion/Wilder table (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/psionics-unleashed/power-lists/power-list-psion-wi lder/) .
Furthermore, I believe this was supported by this reddit post : https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/14wvwb/a_question_about_psions_and_di sciplines/
However, on the Psion page it specifically states : "However, choosing a discipline also means that the psion cannot learn powers that are restricted to the other disciplines (generalist psions cannot learn powers on any of the discipline power lists).”
Does this mean that powers such as Precognition and Disable are unavailable to my egoist psion even though they are on the Psion/Wilder list purely because those powers belong to the clairsentience and telepathy disciplines respectively? Thank you for reading and hopefully your answers will alleviate my confusion.


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If the powers are on the general Psion/Wilder list, every Psion or Wilder can learn them. (Think about it: the Generalist Psion would not be able to chose any powers otherwise).

You cannot take powers restricted to the lists reserved for the specialists, though.


Thank you very much for your help.


Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

Think of the Psion/Wilder list as list A, and the six discipline lists as lists B-G. A generalist can only take from A, while a specialist can take from both A and one of B-G. Now, if there's a particular power on a prohibited list that they want, they can take the Expanded Knowledge feat and grab it.

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