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Hey all. I don't know how many people still play 1e, but I sure do, and I have found something enraging. Mostly because it's so cool, but so difficult to understand. That would be the Psychometabolic corruption.
I have issues with two of its manifestations. The first, called psychometabolic blast, reads:
"You gain the kineticist’s kinetic blast class feature, as well as the telekinetic blast wild talent. Use your manifestation level as your effective kineticist level to determine the effects of these abilities. If you have the elemental focus (aether) or expanded element (aether) class ability, you instead gain a bonus on damage rolls with your telekinetic blast equal to half your manifestation level (minimum +1)."
I can understand most of that. However, my issue is: what is the cost for using this ability? All the other gifts from the psychometabolic corruption use psychometabolic points, but as written, it looks like this ability can be used at will. I assume it is meant to cost 1 point, or be used a limited number of times per day, but who knows.
Second and bigger issue comes from mind blast, which reads:
"When you use the telekinetic blast gained from the psychometabolic blast manifestation, you can spend 2 points of psychometabolic power to use the telekinetic force to wreck the mind of each creature targeted. Instead of you rolling to hit targets with your blast, each target can attempt a Will save (DC = 10 + half your manifestation level + your Constitution modifier) to try to negate the damage and any infusions or metakinesis abilities applied to it. When using this ability, your telekinetic blast is a mind-affecting effect."
I have several issues with this. First, it notes that the user "wrecks the mind of each creature targeted," but a kineticist's blast only has a single target. Second, you're paying 2 points to allow your (singular) target to make a relatively low Will save to avoid the damage? Instead of just making an attack roll that would come from the psychometabolic blast? That seems to very underwhelming, especially with the flavor text of "wrecking the mind" of your targets.
I know this is a long shot and probably won't get many bites, but I'm using this corruption (or more likely, a heavily modified version) for a game I've got coming up. Anyone have any thoughts, suggestions, ideas?
Thanks.