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<blockquote data-quote="Ravellion" data-source="post: 5828480" data-attributes="member: 538"><p>Hmmmm... on the fly conversion into PP... interesting, hadn't thought of that one. This must be the way to go if I want to stimulate Magic / Psionic multiclassing. Really the best way to go about it really.</p><p></p><p>However, I think I might want to scare people out of doing that <em>for this specific campaign</em> for flavour reasons (even though the sorcerer kings originally were Wizard/Psions, I think Dark Sun is improved by a clear divide between Psionics and Wizards - otherwise the cultural problems you would have casting arcane magic in town could simply be overcome by switching all slots to psionics.</p><p></p><p>Nevertheless, your solution is good, and will use it in a campaign where I intend to have a higher level of magic/psionic transparency. Fo Dark Sun, I like large differences between the two.</p><p></p><p>So, here is what I'll do: I'll give each class a BPB (Base Psionic Bonus) next to their BMB. I'll give all traditional classes 1/3 progression. If I allowed the Monk, I would give them 1/2 BPB. The Psionics classes get 1/3 BMB.</p><p></p><p>BPB will read off a table that matches with the Psion class for powerpoints and max powers known and max power level. The psychic warrior will indeed be given 2/3 BPB. This will give the psywars a little bit of extra power, but not much.</p><p></p><p>This means there is a very clear mechanical divide between Psionics and magic. Multiclassing between non-psionic and psionic classes has gotten the same boost as the regular Trailblazer has given to non magic classes and magic classes, but there is a disincentive to mix psionics with magic (and as I just said, this is my goal because of flavour reasons only).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ravellion, post: 5828480, member: 538"] Hmmmm... on the fly conversion into PP... interesting, hadn't thought of that one. This must be the way to go if I want to stimulate Magic / Psionic multiclassing. Really the best way to go about it really. However, I think I might want to scare people out of doing that [i]for this specific campaign[/i] for flavour reasons (even though the sorcerer kings originally were Wizard/Psions, I think Dark Sun is improved by a clear divide between Psionics and Wizards - otherwise the cultural problems you would have casting arcane magic in town could simply be overcome by switching all slots to psionics. Nevertheless, your solution is good, and will use it in a campaign where I intend to have a higher level of magic/psionic transparency. Fo Dark Sun, I like large differences between the two. So, here is what I'll do: I'll give each class a BPB (Base Psionic Bonus) next to their BMB. I'll give all traditional classes 1/3 progression. If I allowed the Monk, I would give them 1/2 BPB. The Psionics classes get 1/3 BMB. BPB will read off a table that matches with the Psion class for powerpoints and max powers known and max power level. The psychic warrior will indeed be given 2/3 BPB. This will give the psywars a little bit of extra power, but not much. This means there is a very clear mechanical divide between Psionics and magic. Multiclassing between non-psionic and psionic classes has gotten the same boost as the regular Trailblazer has given to non magic classes and magic classes, but there is a disincentive to mix psionics with magic (and as I just said, this is my goal because of flavour reasons only). [/QUOTE]
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