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Since it looks like we will not finish due to work and stuff, I’m going to go ahead and talk about our testing of the psychic.
We wanted to try something we’ve been meaning to do, the super fighter team, focusing on making a fighter the best they could be. We had a fighter (obviously), bard, eldritch trickster (divine) rogue and an infinite eye psychic. We were going to try multiple levels but only did level 1, and only 1 session at that.
General comments: Super-fighter was super-effective, at least at this level. At one point the fighter could crit on a 7, for 6d12+17! Granted, it was against a zombie shambler, but still. Even the rogue was seeing good results and they weren’t the focus.
Psychic comments:
We went with spell attack for the mental scan roll. Cooperative Nature is very strong with mental scan, maybe too much so, especially with the cooperative soul follow-up. It makes humans the go to choice for psychics.
The psychic chose mage armor as their one spell per day so it would have the biggest impact. They said that they would probably never cast true strike and hated that it was required. They requested maybe object reading as an alternative. Not sure about that one. Home game I’d allow it.
They never amped detect magic, and only amped guidance once, which turned out not to matter besides taking a 10 minute refocus to get the point back. Hopefully there will be more options to use amps when the book comes out. On another note I never realized guidance and aid stacked before which is nice to discover.
While we only did first, the psychic was underwhelmed by the feat options. They said in an actual game most class feats would be used for archetypes.
Combat was very samey. Amp mental scan a target and TK projectile or daze, depending on what the results say. Partly because the fighter was wrecking everything.
For something called infinite eye, their perception was pretty bad, tied for lowest in the party. Not a big deal, but was mentioned.
Overall feeling is that with a little tweaking psychic will be in a good place but not quite there yet.