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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 3002696" data-attributes="member: 478">I would actually say, that both are highly useful. They both have their advantages and disadvantages, which is also why I say, that both are about equal in power (sorcerer slightly lower maybe, but not much). I've played both often enough. And I've played them in campaigns were planning was possible, and in others were things were more hectical. I think I have seen a large portion of the whole picture with my own eyes already, so to say. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I wouldn't call that 'railroad', that's such a negative term, and also falsely applied here.You can have that effect, which you mean there, without forcing players along a certain route (i.e. railroading).I do not only play in one game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />War Mages - only seen one in play so far (where I am the DM) and he is very useful (even the 1st level Evocation spell of choice... naturally: Tenser's Floating Disk has been mighty useful <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />). Overall, I think the class is weaker than a sorcerer, though, because they are a bit too focused.Shadow Blades - don't even know what that is... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />They might appear to come close, but that would be in one specific situation, so to say.Take the very same characters and put them into a very different situation, and that psion will likely have it much easier to adapt most likely. Do that with lots of situations, and we have a clear winner.Metamagic Specialist is great. But losing the familiar hurts. And they have no bonus feats. They also need some metamagic feats to use with that, and then they have pretty much no feats for *anything* else.ByeThanee</blockquote>

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