Endowed Mind and Quicken Power

[the_archduke]

Would the 6 PP you have to pay for Quickened Power give you +3 DCs if you also have endowed mind?

[Psyren]

No, for two reasons:

(1) Endowed Mind only applies to points spent augmenting a power - other uses, like applying metapsionics or paying for a cost increase, are not augments.

(2) Endowed Mind is itself a metapsionic feat, which means using it requires spending your psionic focus, which you're already spending on Quicken Power. (You could of course have a second focus, but by default, it's one or the other.)

[the_archduke]

I was afraid of #1. Oh well.

As for #2, despite it saying it is a metapsionic feat, endowed mind says nothing about expending focus. It says the opposite in fact, it only works as long as you maintain focus.

"Benefit: As long as you maintain psionic focus, increase the save DC of any power you manifest by 1 for every 2 power points you spend augmenting the power, provided the augmentation does not already increase the power’s save DC. You may even spend 2 power points to increase a power’s save DC even if the power does not have any augment options."

[Psyren]

My bad on the second one - DSP changed the metapsionic rules from "must expend" to "typically expend." In 3.5 you would.