>The closest I've come is a character who is a telepath and a mage, but
>his psi has a range of six feet, and his magic is not heavily
>offensive. The most powerful combat spell he has was adapted from
>"scramble an egg in the shell." It became "scramble the fluid in the
>inner ear."

Never underestimate the uses of subtle magics. In a recent campaign a bunch of powerful sorceres were pounding an advancing horde, who were too thinned out to suffer enough casualties from any given attack. One Flash-Bang spell in front left them neatly piled up for a holocaust-like attacks to swing the balance. One very little spell in the right can be terrifyingly effective.

A low level mage-psychic-force adept might not be powerful, but would be very flexible in what they could do.

drakensisthered

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: "There is generally more than one side to a story." - Corwin, Roger Zelazny's 'Courts of Chaos'