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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kelleris" data-source="post: 1754051" data-attributes="member: 19130">Yeesh, I go away for one weekend and you guys go nuts on me.  If you feel the need to continue this discussion, you all have each others' e-mail addresses.  Knock it off here, though, eh?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   Or better, yet, go join Thanee and Psion over in the thread I linked to.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> @ Mad Hatter - Your sig is voluminously large.  Make sure you shorten it when we play, or leave it off your PbP posts, k?@ TrevWar - I think I covered everything you asked about, except the Technologist.  Balance-wise, think of the technologist as the opposite of the Wilder - they get lots of powerful toys, but they can't access their best ones very often.  The class can use its low-level devices with abandon, but the high-level devices are meant to be seldom-used.  I think DemonWolf mentioned something about 17 maxed-out powers at 20th level for Psions.  A Technologist's best devices cost 135 stabilization points to use.  They only get 800 base at 20th level.  6 shots from the ol' null-space cannon and they're 10 points into their fairly meager bonus points, which they have to suffer a bit of MAD for to begin with.  The Psion still has 11 20d10 mind thrusts with which to core out his enemies' brains.The Technologist actually has cleric BAB, by the way - a pretty good number of technologist devices will require attack rolls.  And I wasn't clear enough on the magic-disrupting thing.  The whole reason a technologist's devices are limited use is because they have to antimagic them every time they want to use them.  It's not a good thing - it's the reason all of a technologist's devices aren't at-will.  The only upshot is that they get a few antimagic abilities out of the deal.</blockquote>

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