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Subject: Re: New AD&D Character Class (THE PSIONICIST) **FLAME**
Message-ID: <169@hou2a.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 16:19:38 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  5 16:19:38 1983
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  I don't know, maybe the author of this article skimmed over the article.
The psionicist was presented as an NPC, please keep it that way!!!!!!!
  I have run into great deals of trouble when people try to use the Dragon
NPC's as character classes.  I can hear the cries already that the DM should
compensate for their power and be ready to handle it...  It may interest you
to know that I object to them most strongly when I am playing.  I am currently
in a cmapaign that allows dragon NPC's as character classes, and of 5 people,
4 are dragon classes.  We have an anti-paladin(myself), an archer-ranger,
and two ninjas running around beside a druid.  I was forced into this class
because I happen to be very competitive, and I couldn't compete against
some of the dragon classes within the confines of the rules.
  That brings me to my major objective, these people are powerful.  NPC's
in dragon, with a few exceptions are very different from the AD&D norm.
There is no precedent for the psionicist.  Psionics are very rare, and the
player is supposed to roll for them and always have a slim chance of obtaining
them.  However, if you allow a player to choose psionicist, he autamaticall
has psionics.  Even NPC's will tend to show up more frequently with psionics
if you allow the psionicist.  I don't happen to approve of using NPC's even
as such, an NPC should only be able to do what a player can do.
 This may seem a bit outraged, because it is.  I am always upset when people
try to take a very good role playing system like AD&D and add things so their
characters can be more godlike.  I happen to think AD&D is one of the best
games on the market, but also one of the most corrupted, in hack and slash
and Monty Haul campaigns.  
						Andrew Garrett