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Originally posted by Kakero:
there is a Psionic class in Wizadry 8, those that argue that Psionics class never ever apeared in any PC RPG probably never played that game.
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The Wiz 8 psionic is nothing like a 2nd edition AD&D psionic. A 2nd edition AD&D psionic can, with a lot of luck, make intelligent weapons that can use psionics. Disentigrate, blow up inanimate objects, create iron weapons from metal dust, talk to plants, use telepathy, teleport and so on.....
What balances the Psionic is that:
#1: He does NOT have all these powers at once, he gains them slowly.
#2: He CAN fail when using a power and they can even backfire and strike him instead of his foes.
#3: He has a limited amount of points for using these abilities per day.
What makes the Psionic special:
#1: Almost all of his abilities can be improved with a bit of creative thinking. Whereas a mage's magic missile will always do the same damage.
#2: Without a bit of creative thinking the Psionic is often useless.
#3: A lot of his powers can NOT be duplicated by any mage, sorcerer or cleric.
#4: He has few to none directly damaging powers depending on his level, intelligence is required to make those that he DOES have deal damage.
What prevents the Psionic from being implemented in a CRPG properly:
#1: Telekinesis and most psychokinetic powers would be able to affect almost all parts of the world. Everything in the world would have to be made affectable by it, possible on a comp? I think not.
#2: Psychoportation(Movement) powers would be able to bring you to a lot of places and do lots of stuff. But a lot of them requires the DM's judgement that a computer simply CAN NOT bring into play.
#3: Telepathic, see #2
#4: Psychometabolic, same thing as #2 and #1. You'd be able to change so many things that only the DM could decide....
#5: To handle all of the previous points the psionic would need some pure damage powers to make up for the less of flexibility, then what do we have? Another damn mage.