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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 1067300" data-attributes="member: 893">Kamikaze Midget:  Perhaps it's time you realized that Darksun just isn't for you.  It isn't supposed to cater to all play styles...  I mean heaven help you if you try and go on an Arthurian style dragonhunt.  As others have pointed out though, where is it written in stone that many of the character concepts you so frantically cling to can't be done with races and classes already avelable but it seems like we are talking to a wall.Because a Psychic warrior is just that, they can fight, and be a second rate spellcaster, not much else.  A bard already has reasonable fighting skills, assassins abilities, a ton of skillpoints and class skills, great saves, and just look down the special abilities list.  You're saying you want to add sorcerer style spellcasting on top of that?  Perhaps if they were a PrC but otherwise that's just ridiculous.  Perhaps most importantly, at least from a role playing perspective you are forgetting the fact that bards are tolerated in the city states.  If the sorcerer kings knew they could cast spells (and believe me they'd find out) Bards would be just as banned as mages.  That of course would make a normal bardic life very difficult since their very way of life requires that they spend quite a bit of time in major population centers.  You're forgetting the fear and hatred that 99% of people have towards magic.  That hardly makes it a desirable skill for someone who relies on his popularity and charisma to have.  After all it's tough to do a performance in an inn when the templars kick the door in and arrest you because your class is capable of useing magic.</blockquote>

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