Rhun said:
It strikes me that Jebediah is actually stronger than a wizard, at least at these low levels. Those energy rays he throws around are pretty nice! Of course, I've always found Wizards to be underpowered at low levels, but they more than make up for it if they survive to higher levels.
As this is my first time playing a Psion I was surprised about this as well, because Jebediah has 11 power points he can do the equivalent of 11d6 damage per day.
However I believe that the Wizard has better free scale-abilty than the Psion, since a Psion has to pay for every extra die of damage he does, unlike a Wizard who can cast a 20d6 fireball and only use up a 3rd level slot.
The funny thing about Jebediah though, is I didn't design him with combat in mind, since he's a Telepath most of his powers will be around charming, dominating, and reading minds. I almost didn't take Energy Ray as a power at all, but I figured that it is always good to have at least one attacking power, boy am I glad I made that decision.
Regarding Jebediah rushing head-long into the room with the crazed Bugbear, I figured that he'd be more interested in survival than in finishing off the annoying human, also I had hoped that our
nice DM would allow me to block the door with Jeb's frail body, how wrong was I
Overall Jeb mearly hoped to slow the Bugbear down enough, to enable his friends to finish him off, saying that I've really enjoyed the suspense of Jeb's rash decision.
The funny thing would be for the group to finally burst the door with a cocky looking Jebediah standing over his defeated opponent, smiling smugly. In reality though it's more likely that the group will find a very battered embarrassed looking Jebediah slumped on the floor.
