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<blockquote data-quote="AnderNGmx" data-source="post: 9293822" data-attributes="member: 7043487"><p>If 2e magic was a pie then 1/3rd are priest slices 1/3rd are mage slices and 1/3rd are bard, paladin, ranger & multi-class combination slices. Or some distribution similar to it. There are no psionic slices, so when the requirement was made they were out of the pan, <strong>another smaller pan was added and it was small and badly cooked</strong>.</p><p></p><p>But this is about 2e magic in Athas Dark Sun. It should be 1/3rd priest slices 1/3rd mage slices and 1/3rd psionicist, ranger & multi-class combination slices. Since it has no bards with spells, nor paladins in general. </p><p></p><p>The system and concepts and lore were created with the mage and priest as foundations and the psionic came later, even if it was in 1976 Eldritch Wizardry, and looks like a lesser magic-user of sorts.</p><p></p><p>If some sense was to be made one would have to rethink things and in effect rewrite the 2e PHB with psionicist in mind as a core class. He could be like a priest with spells up to level 7, the bard, so a hybrid class with spells up to level 6 or the mage with spells up to 9. If the bard style was to be followed then the would have various mental abilities along with his spells/powers.</p><p></p><p>I would go with the priest model and make him tougher and better in combat with the psionic stuff coming as the result of his discipline, meditation and engaging in physical actions and kept the "glass cannon" role for the mages.</p><p></p><p>But whatever mode was followed then everything would have to change from the bottom up. The spells of priests, mages and bards already have taken up all available "spaces & roles" thus the entire system would have to be rewritten. Else we would end up just taking some priest, mage, bard spells and making them into psionicist powers and just making another mix.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnderNGmx, post: 9293822, member: 7043487"] If 2e magic was a pie then 1/3rd are priest slices 1/3rd are mage slices and 1/3rd are bard, paladin, ranger & multi-class combination slices. Or some distribution similar to it. There are no psionic slices, so when the requirement was made they were out of the pan, [B]another smaller pan was added and it was small and badly cooked[/B]. But this is about 2e magic in Athas Dark Sun. It should be 1/3rd priest slices 1/3rd mage slices and 1/3rd psionicist, ranger & multi-class combination slices. Since it has no bards with spells, nor paladins in general. The system and concepts and lore were created with the mage and priest as foundations and the psionic came later, even if it was in 1976 Eldritch Wizardry, and looks like a lesser magic-user of sorts. If some sense was to be made one would have to rethink things and in effect rewrite the 2e PHB with psionicist in mind as a core class. He could be like a priest with spells up to level 7, the bard, so a hybrid class with spells up to level 6 or the mage with spells up to 9. If the bard style was to be followed then the would have various mental abilities along with his spells/powers. I would go with the priest model and make him tougher and better in combat with the psionic stuff coming as the result of his discipline, meditation and engaging in physical actions and kept the "glass cannon" role for the mages. But whatever mode was followed then everything would have to change from the bottom up. The spells of priests, mages and bards already have taken up all available "spaces & roles" thus the entire system would have to be rewritten. Else we would end up just taking some priest, mage, bard spells and making them into psionicist powers and just making another mix. [/QUOTE]
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