PHB3 Debut: Ardent Speculation

[Rechan]

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Table of Contents (Dragon #382 Table of Contents)

I'm surprised they stuck with the name. It just doesn't really conjure up anything in my mind. And I wonder how similar it'll be at all to the 3e version.

 

[Phaezen]

My best guess here would be Psionic Leader, possibly Defender or with defender secondary.

I expect Mantles might work in a similar way to stances or might be sustain minor powers.

 

[Rechan]

The Wilden, finished, is also being given.

But they haven't updated the calendar so it's hard to tell when we're getting the goods.

 

[Phaezen]

I suspect the 15th along with the Builder update as per usual?

 

[Dausuul]

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Table of Contents (Dragon #382 Table of Contents)

I'm surprised they stuck with the name. It just doesn't really conjure up anything in my mind. And I wonder how similar it'll be at all to the 3e version.

I never ran into the 3E version. What the heck is an ardent?

 

[Phaezen]

I never ran into the 3E version. What the heck is an ardent?

Hopefully this link will help

 

[Dausuul]

Hopefully this link will help

Oh.

...Huh.

I guess this just sums up the fundamental weirdness of psionic classes to me. I can sorta see the concept, I guess, but I keep looking at it and going, "...Huh."

The more I think about it, the more I think they should have folded the psionic power source into the ki/chi power source instead of the other way around. This class seems like it would be much easier to grasp if they called it "philosopher" and made it a kind of Confucian-style leader, who strengthens the party by exemplifying the virtues of his/her chosen philosophy and inspiring them to do likewise.

 

[ppaladin123]

I never ran into the 3E version. What the heck is an ardent?

We don't speak of, "Complete Psionic," or any of the classes contained within it. It burns us!

 

[Rechan]

We don't speak of, "Complete Psionic," or any of the classes contained within it. It burns us!

Now now. The Lurk was awesomesauce.

 

[Gargazon]

I thought the other two psionic classes in this book would be the Empath and Battlemind? Maybe they've renamed the Empath. Or, alternatively, they've made the Ardent Divine. It was already a kind of psionic-cleric, maybe they just took the Mantles idea and changed its source.