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Hey all, I have a character (a gnome) whos background has him interacting with the blight. I'm flavoring his psychic magic as a side effect of his near death experience with said blight. Now I have the choice of going for the sorcerer (psychic) bloodline, or for the actual psychic class (abomination discipline). I was hoping to get yalls thoughts on both which you think fits better thematically, and which would function better mechanically.
For the psychic, I was thinking of taking either the esoteric star seeker archetype, or the wildepath archetype.
So-
Which do you think would better fit the flavor of the "how" he got magic.
Which do you think works better from a "mechanical" stand point.
And do you have any advice for either one? (feats, archetypes, multiclasses, powers, items etc etc)
By flavor the psychic abomination is stronger than the psychic bloodline sorcerer, sure.
There's a few obvious differences in mechanics. A psychic abomination uses Int w/secondary Cha, a sorcerer uses Cha alone. Then there's the spell list; the psychic is much more oriented to magic associated with the mind (not just mind-affecting tho') whereas a sorcerer has the broad, all the magic spell list. The final difference is the phrenic amplifications, the psychic gets more and better of those than a sorcerer gets in bloodline powers and feats even before adding in the psychic discipline stuff. In the end the psychic is more specialised and better within that specialisation.
The esoteric starseeker trades out a bit of abomination flavour for more academic flavour (and day-to-day flexibility). The wildepath trades the same for wilderness person flavour, which is more compatible IMO. Entangle, pale flame, spit venom etc. could be nightmarish enough.