Fighter/Psion

[Caeleddin]

Nail - I don't see a problem with psionics. Sure, they can do a LOT of damage if they augment everything to the nines. But that merely means that they are out of bang by turn 8-12 (depending on your casting stat bonus). If you do that in the campaigns I run, you're useless for a very very long time. I sometimes force them to continue for 2-3 in-game days at a time before they can rest, depending on the setting. They learn fast to not blow everything on the first battle of the day.

Sorcerors and Wizards do more damage at higher levels because their spells automatically scale. Psions don't get that. They HAVE to augment. Imagine having to cast a Fireball as a level 4 spell to get 8d6 damage and a level 5 spell to get 10d6 damage with only half the spell slots available to a wizard. Even then, those are still level 1/2/3 spells which means that Globes of Invul will hose them.

All in all, I don't think psionics are all that nasty. They get to hose people with Evasion, which is always good. The look on a smug PC's face when they have to make a Fort save instead of a Reflex save (for which they have optimised their build) to get out of the way of a Death Blossom is hilarious. Of course, then they do it to you....!


IcyCool - You seem to have a mistaken impression that I am out to harm the group. Please re-read what I have said and make sure that I wasn't joking before you start accusing me to destroying things. Please do the same with the other guys as well. Not everybody is 100% serious all the time, you know.


Doc - They are on probation as far as I am concerned. They screw up and I am out of there. In the meantime, I have another group that will hopefully get off the ground within the next 2 weeks.

 

[Caeleddin]

Whimsical - Nothing in Auckland for the next 2+ months. I checked.

 

[Whimsical]

Start your own RPGA group. Advertise it in the newspaper. In the classifieds, in the personal ads, in the local clubs or town event section, in the local college paper. I would recommend advertising your home game but the RPGA session makes a nice player filter. Run RPGA games for everyone who shows up. Choose your home game players from that gamer pool. It's clear that you badly want to play D&D or roleplaying games in general. The question is: how bad?

 

[Caeleddin]

Not THAT badly


I don't join WotC stuff as a general rule. Too much hassles and legalese.

 

[Whimsical]

Dude, your current game is too much hassle and legalese.

But I see that you have a potential group that you may be starting in. Well, good luck with that!

 

[Caeleddin]

Point. However, it is only this idiot DM and he rotates out in 4-6 weeks. We go back to the OTHER idiot DM's game where the current idiot DM is a munchkin.

 

[IcyCool]

IcyCool - You seem to have a mistaken impression that I am out to harm the group. Please re-read what I have said and make sure that I wasn't joking before you start accusing me to destroying things. Please do the same with the other guys as well. Not everybody is 100% serious all the time, you know.

My post was merely to caution you against taking some of the advice offered in this thread. Most of that advice appears to have been seriously offered. Also, I accused you of nothing. That said, I suppose I'd still ike an answer to the question, "Do you have fun in this game?"

If you don't, it's not worth the headache.

 

[KarinsDad]

Frankly, I'm shocked and dismayed at the responses and advice some of you have been giving Caeleddin. Do you really think that you as a single player have a right to sabotage someone's game and ruin everyone else's fun just because you aren't getting your way?

First off, it is not a matter of getting your way or not. It is a matter of the DM being a moron.

Second, yes, one gamer does have the right to ruin a game if the game is purposely being ruined for him by the DM.

Personally, I think Caeleddin should talk this over with the entire group, but since he is unwilling to bring it up to everyone, he will have to either put up with it, or do something in game about it, or quit.

The easiest thing to do in game is to not go out of his way to help out the other PCs and to let them die. That will emphasize the severe problem with "no PC healing" rule. That is the most boneheaded house rule I have ever heard.

 

[Caeleddin]

They are seriously offered and they have been seriously considered. However, note that all of them requires the DM to TPK the party (well, not so total if I can DD or PS my way out of there). If a DM is crazy enough to do that (and this one is), I see no reason, and nor can anyone else, of trying to help pull his fat out of the fire. Everyone else loses a level IF they can get their bodies back. Opps! Too bad, so sad, nevermind.

There is nothing inherently "out to destroy everyone else's fun" in their advice. An Int 18 character is not going to stand up to the BBEG alone with the rest of his party dead or dying. He will be getting out of there, not adding another notch to the BBEG's bedpost.

 

[IcyCool]

Second, yes, one gamer does have the right to ruin a game if the game is purposely being ruined for him by the DM.

If you truly believe this, then I feel sorry for your fellow gamers. Immature though they may be.

That is the most boneheaded house rule I have ever heard.

*shrugs* It's his game. If he doesn't provide alternatives or have house rules to deal with the fallout, then yes, it's a stupid house-rule. I'm inclined to believe the DM is being an ass. I still fail to see where that means that Caeleddin should be one too.