Psionic Enchantments could be:
1- The ability to boost spells with PP, and boosting psionic powers with spell slots. Xlorep has already done that with his take on the concept.
2- Also a new kind of power. Anyone walking in the path of an advanced being could have access to it.
For example: you can make an item, say a ring, that uses one of this new power, simply called a psionic enchantment. It could read like this:
Devouring Force (the name is not important):
This ring allows you to ....
Strong evocation and strong psychokinesis; CL 12th and ML 12th; Forge Ring and Craft Universal Item, devouring force; Price x,xxx Cp.
And then an entry for the Devouring Force psionic enchantment in the master list for psionic enchantments:
Psionic Enchantments:
Devouring Force
Evocation, psychokinesis
Level: a new term here to explain the psionic enchantment is the equivalent of a 7th-level power or spell
Components: V, PP
Casting/Manifesting Time (a new term here to explain that the psionic enchantment is neither cast nor manifested, but both):...
Range:...
Target:...
Duration:...
Saving Throw:...
Spell/Power Resistance (a new term here to explain that the psionic enchantment can be resisted if someone has both spell and power resistance, using the lowest of the two to resist the effects):...
So there could be 3 categories of powers for DS: spells, psionic powers and psionic enchantments. That last one is neither a spell nor a psionic power.
There could be a whole list of psionic enchantments, just like for spells or psionic powers. How they would be manifested/cast is another matter. They could probably be learned like a spell and used by expanding a spell slot.
There could be the equivalent of power stones or scrolls to scribe/encode one for future use, requiring that the user has acces to powers and spells of that level.
And it could be translated to epic levels to: sup-epic psionic enchantments and epic psionic enchantments. Thus epic psionic enchantments items, in the case of a ring, requiring the crafter to have the Forge Epic Ring and Craft Epic Universal Items.
The number of epic psionic enchantment that could be used every day would be the ranks in Knowledge (arcana) + Knowledge (psionics) divided by 2, the result divided by 10. Just like for epic spells and epic powers.
All kinds of funky things could be done with this I'm sure.
It use feats (psi-spell feats) requiring both the knowledge of some spells and some powers and give an enhancement to the spell or the power the character uses.
It also presents the mind-mage PrC, adept at using both the energies of psi and spells.
Dont know if it's too far from what you are looking for but hope it help gives you inspi for the ruling.
Originally posted by Methvezem
Have you seen the article 'Brain Power Secrets of the Illithids' in Dragon mag #313. It is about psi-spellcasting, the combination of casting spells augmented by knowledge of psionics and vice-versa.
It use feats (psi-spell feats) requiring both the knowledge of some spells and some powers and give an enhancement to the spell or the power the character uses.
It also presents the mind-mage PrC, adept at using both the energies of psi and spells.
Dont know if it's too far from what you are looking for but hope it help gives you inspi for the ruling.
Unfortunately, you can't use material from Dragon or Dungeon, due to the copyright rules and all. They aren't OGL. Well, you can use it, you just can't publish it (online or otherwise).
The Mind Mage, if only an advanced being were not busy advancing in his metamorphosis class, would be perfect as a advanced being specific class, with some tweeking of course. ;)
As for comments on the psonic enchantments as an all new cateory of D&D powers?