Fighter/Psion

[Jdvn1]

Well, the first time they see you make a Heal check, they'll know you're not totally lost in that area.

 

[Caeleddin]

The first time they see me take DAMAGE, they'll see that I'm not exactly a pushover as a fighter either. Although 90+ hps is not much if a really nasty melee combatant decides to have you for breakfast.

 

[Jdvn1]

But taking damage and using Heal aren't mutually exclusive. My point is that they'll know you have the Heal skill and it's not going to be as useful as they'll hope, since you'll have so few ranks.

 

[Caeleddin]

They can blame the DM, then, since he "suggested" that I take it as a cross-class. He said that 6+ ranks is heaps because the standard commoner won't have more than 2.

 

[Jdvn1]

I think this DM made a few too many "suggestions."

 

[Jack Simth]

My DM wants to "evaluate" Psionic Meditation. If I am struggling without it, then he will allow me to change my feats to compensate. He wants to "ensure that the power levels within the party is the same", so he is "closely monitoring everyone and assigning bonuses as needed to bring them on par with everyone else".

If it helps, then at best, it puts your Metapsionic abilities up on par with a Sorcerors Metamagic abilities - a Psion with Psionic Meditation can take a move action to gain focus, and a standard action to manifest a power: a full round action, all told, much like a Sorceror, with the minor provisos that a Psion with Quicken as well can get two powers off each round this way (Move, Quickened Power (which will have a reduced effect, due to augmenting limitations and Quicken cost), Standard Power) and that metapsionics that burn a focus don't cost quite so much as a metamagic ability.

However, you can still have similar effects in combat - Psicrystal and Psicrystal Containment permit you to hold an extra focus.

 

[Caeleddin]

JDVN1 - *cough* *cough*

"But as you have no idea what i am talking about, don't try to second guess what i am thinking and what i am 'forgetting' as i know the rules of the game and the intricacies/tactics far better than you do."

Funny. I said Psionic Meditation isn't broken and made most of the Psionic feats USABLE. I said Mystic Theurge isn't broken. I also said that allowing Rangers and Bards (essentially free since they rely on weapons and songs to beat people up, and they can cast it on anyone) the ability to cast healing spells and denying it to me as a Psion (7PP per shot base, self only) is not fair.

But he knows better, apparently.

Which could be true. He twinked the living daylights out of the two characters I know he made. The Bard with the Fighter and Barb levels and a Half-Celestial Elven Monk.

 

[Jdvn1]

JDVN1 - *cough* *cough*

"But as you have no idea what i am talking about, don't try to second guess what i am thinking and what i am 'forgetting' as i know the rules of the game and the intricacies/tactics far better than you do."

Is that a quote from him? Because I'd recommend he play a system that has fewer cure spells and fits his style better, rather than changing a pre-existing system. That's a big change. Then again, I don't like players being told how to make their characters.

I hope that doesn't come across as rude, just that he'll probably prefer some other system.

Funny. I said Psionic Meditation isn't broken and made most of the Psionic feats USABLE. I said Mystic Theurge isn't broken. I also said that allowing Rangers and Bards (essentially free since they rely on weapons and songs to beat people up, and they can cast it on anyone) the ability to cast healing spells and denying it to me as a Psion (7PP per shot base, self only) is not fair.

But he knows better, apparently.

Which could be true. He twinked the living daylights out of the two characters I know he made. The Bard with the Fighter and Barb levels and a Half-Celestial Elven Monk.

Making powerful fighters isn't tough. They get pretty crazy if you look in the Character Optimization forum on the WotC boards.

 

[Caeleddin]

Jack - He is scared because he saw the Psychic Warrior with the Greater Psionic Weapon feat. He thought it was ok if it was one every other round, but once a round? That is too much. Of course, he doesn't seem to care that for your 1 attack, the opponent will be doing 4..... So he banned it. And totally screwed the Psion's Metapsionic feats.

He knows better than everyone else because he reads the WotC boards. That was where he got the idea that Psions have a ton of Healing powers available and that a Psion with Healing powers are broken. He didn't bother to read all of the Psion's Powers (he admitted this) and banned all of it outright.

 

[Jdvn1]

He knows better than everyone else because he reads the WotC boards.

Huh?