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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8313123" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>Athas has just always had Psionics, yeah. I just mean that the Gith that crashed on Athas weren't Sorcerers or Wizards and lost all connection to the Lich Queen and everything on the Astral Plane when they landed. Athas has pretty much no connection to the Planes to speak of. They're still out there, but Athas is surrounded by the Grey which cuts them off.</p><p></p><p>Granted it was invented largely to keep Dark Sun's OP characters from conquering the rest of the Multiverse with their higher starting levels, innate psionics, and higher attribute scores... But it's a thing! There's no Heaven or Hell on Athas. There's only the Grey. A place where your spirit just slowly decays until everything that you are, or were, is utterly gone.</p><p></p><p>Athas actually -does- have "Bards" who are heralds of the Rich and Powerful (Including Sorcerer-Kings). They do music, gossipmongering, political assassinations, spying, lots of stuff with poisons... And are actually just a Rogue Subclass. Because it's the Spellcasting that Athasian Bards don't do.</p><p></p><p>Though you could give them the Spelless Ranger Treatment and have them gain a bunch of poisons and alchemy where their spellcasting used to be. I was just riffing on the Psionic Bard angle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8313123, member: 6796468"] Athas has just always had Psionics, yeah. I just mean that the Gith that crashed on Athas weren't Sorcerers or Wizards and lost all connection to the Lich Queen and everything on the Astral Plane when they landed. Athas has pretty much no connection to the Planes to speak of. They're still out there, but Athas is surrounded by the Grey which cuts them off. Granted it was invented largely to keep Dark Sun's OP characters from conquering the rest of the Multiverse with their higher starting levels, innate psionics, and higher attribute scores... But it's a thing! There's no Heaven or Hell on Athas. There's only the Grey. A place where your spirit just slowly decays until everything that you are, or were, is utterly gone. Athas actually -does- have "Bards" who are heralds of the Rich and Powerful (Including Sorcerer-Kings). They do music, gossipmongering, political assassinations, spying, lots of stuff with poisons... And are actually just a Rogue Subclass. Because it's the Spellcasting that Athasian Bards don't do. Though you could give them the Spelless Ranger Treatment and have them gain a bunch of poisons and alchemy where their spellcasting used to be. I was just riffing on the Psionic Bard angle. [/QUOTE]
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