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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8597970" data-attributes="member: 6877472">The Synthesist was a strange a beast.&nbsp; Really, the least powerful thing a Summoner could do.&nbsp; But the ability to mostly ignore one's physical attributes while outperforming a martial was really what people were annoyed by.&nbsp; It highlighted the martial/caster disparity in an extreme way, by showing that a guy who has basically 6 level spells (if beefy ones) can more or less ignore the bulk of his casting ability, and gain more power than a Fighter for no other reason than he wasn't bound by the limitations of the Fighter.Because the Summoner was a magic class, some developer apparently thought that by downgrading the ability to fill the battlefield with chumps and have the action economy of a companion creature, it was perfectly fine to let them cheat point buy and get more hit points and special abilities like Pounce or a gazillion natural weapons that were just out of reach to the average martial.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8597970, member: 6877472"] The Synthesist was a strange a beast. Really, the least powerful thing a Summoner could do. But the ability to mostly ignore one's physical attributes while outperforming a martial was really what people were annoyed by. It highlighted the martial/caster disparity in an extreme way, by showing that a guy who has basically 6 level spells (if beefy ones) can more or less ignore the bulk of his casting ability, and gain more power than a Fighter for no other reason than [B][I]he wasn't bound by the limitations of the Fighter[/I][/B]. Because the Summoner was a magic class, some developer apparently thought that by downgrading the ability to fill the battlefield with chumps and have the action economy of a companion creature, it was perfectly fine to let them cheat point buy and get more hit points and special abilities like Pounce or a gazillion natural weapons that were just out of reach to the average martial. [/QUOTE]

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