So, I think it'd be really cool to play a mind mage in an IH campaign sometime, and was interested in, uncreatively, the magic portfolio. The only problem? A First One with the double magic portfolio has a psi-dead home plane (not exactly a serious problem, true, but it'd be nice to be able to reach there)... and the psionic portfolio has a built-in antagonism to magic, particularly, "you must have no spellcasting classes."
Oh, here we go, one way to get around this is only gain spellcasting classes AFTER ascension. Then I could, in fact, roll with an immortal of both psionics and magic.
But, ehhh, is there anything that can be done about the more substandard X Pariah portfolio abilities? I get that portfolio powers shouldn't necessarily be the most optimal, but I think we all should admit that having the Good portfolio and the Unholy Pariah ability is really useful (as evil spells are often tailored specifically to screw over good beings), while there's no particular benefit that banning psionics from your home dimension of magic, or for that matter, banning ice from your home dimension of lightning, provides.
Then again, couldn't I just use the whole Changing Abilities thing from table 4-3 on p 97 to not make my dimension that is of both Psionics and Magic nullify Magic?
Oh, here we go, one way to get around this is only gain spellcasting classes AFTER ascension. Then I could, in fact, roll with an immortal of both psionics and magic.
But, ehhh, is there anything that can be done about the more substandard X Pariah portfolio abilities? I get that portfolio powers shouldn't necessarily be the most optimal, but I think we all should admit that having the Good portfolio and the Unholy Pariah ability is really useful (as evil spells are often tailored specifically to screw over good beings), while there's no particular benefit that banning psionics from your home dimension of magic, or for that matter, banning ice from your home dimension of lightning, provides.
Then again, couldn't I just use the whole Changing Abilities thing from table 4-3 on p 97 to not make my dimension that is of both Psionics and Magic nullify Magic?