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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7977800" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>And how often was the Ranger's Natural Explorer and Favored Enemy called out as "nothing that a rogue with expertise in survival can't do just as well"? From my recollection, that point comes up every single time people talk about redesigning the ranger. </p><p></p><p>And while it is all well and good to say we can expect a psion to do it better, even doing it better isn't exactly enough if it doesn't cover some aspect that people will actually need to use. The Revised Ranger had the ability to ignore all difficult terrain, ever, and that is the best version of that ability we have ever seen. But, no one really ever talked about it as more than an oddity. No one looks at it as a powerful ability to my knowledge, because difficult terrain is something rarely dealt with, and so dealing with it "the best" doesn't matter. </p><p></p><p>Will Telepathy end up the same way? Psion's might be "the best" at telepathy, but not only do we have no idea what that looks like, we have no idea if that will be enough to make people want to play the class. </p><p></p><p>So I think this is a valid point to discuss. How do you take abilities that exist, that need to be the cornerstone of a new class, and do them in such a way that it is worth playing this new class?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7977800, member: 6801228"] And how often was the Ranger's Natural Explorer and Favored Enemy called out as "nothing that a rogue with expertise in survival can't do just as well"? From my recollection, that point comes up every single time people talk about redesigning the ranger. And while it is all well and good to say we can expect a psion to do it better, even doing it better isn't exactly enough if it doesn't cover some aspect that people will actually need to use. The Revised Ranger had the ability to ignore all difficult terrain, ever, and that is the best version of that ability we have ever seen. But, no one really ever talked about it as more than an oddity. No one looks at it as a powerful ability to my knowledge, because difficult terrain is something rarely dealt with, and so dealing with it "the best" doesn't matter. Will Telepathy end up the same way? Psion's might be "the best" at telepathy, but not only do we have no idea what that looks like, we have no idea if that will be enough to make people want to play the class. So I think this is a valid point to discuss. How do you take abilities that exist, that need to be the cornerstone of a new class, and do them in such a way that it is worth playing this new class? [/QUOTE]
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