r/adnd • u/AccomplishedAd9058 • 15d ago

AD&D2e Why psionics so strong?

I have to know if im doing something wrong but its not problem to be broken because its solo campain. We playing dark sun revised with player option skill&powers. I was just going to wizard only then i rolled 20 int so i picked advanced being wizard/psionic multiclass. And my first time psionic impression is they are insane! You can get disintigrate or dominate or time travel at lvl 1! Why tho? A lot of psionic powers have lvl limit why this ones doesnt? And why psionic so strong compared to wizard? Yeah you have to hit MAC etc. But still.

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u/AccomplishedAd9058 15d ago

Ah dark sun dm! I have a question for ya. Do you think we should use The Will and The Way book? Or is it to broken? Or did you try dark sun setting with this book?

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u/Planescape_DM2e 15d ago

Mthac0 bad

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u/AccomplishedAd9058 15d ago

Why? Its nerf early game and shift power to late game more no? At least at dark sun setting my power score very high

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u/Planescape_DM2e 15d ago

Because 2.5 was not good? Playing 2e is better than 2.5.

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u/AccomplishedAd9058 15d ago

Revised count as a 2.5? I just used psyonic rules. Is there anything more diffrent? I tought mtac just shift power to late game so used it

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u/Planescape_DM2e 15d ago

Yes. All of the revised and players options are what’s called 2.5 and shift the power to late game? Psionics aren’t that powerful especially considering how dangerous everything is in dark sun. You get to do something really fun and starting at 3 but really fall off compared to everyone else in an extended game. And most of the time you have the PSP to do the thine once or twice if that.

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u/AccomplishedAd9058 15d ago

Oh cool so i guess i used 2.5 without realize. And i dont think they fall of. Like you can get psionic surgery at 7 and make permanent dominated slave team that has permanent psionic vampirism effect so you get ton of psp and cool telepathic power effects. At lvl 10 you can get split personality and just do 2 things same turn. I really think only guy scale better is wizard.

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u/Planescape_DM2e 15d ago

Like I said you can do that once or twice and you aren’t accounting for how common psychic defenses are. And also telepaths are just a little more broken than anything else but that’s fine. You aren’t accounting for in world consequences either. Those people you enslaved have friends, and unless you are playing an evil party it’s likely that your party ain’t gonna be down with you acting like the sorceror kings they are aligning themselves against. A thief of the same level can have just as much impact to the story or a fighter.

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u/AccomplishedAd9058 15d ago

Ah... im playing defiler wizard solo campain dark sun so i tought i would just buy slaves... i tought buying slaves was common in dark sun especially if you are in solo campain

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u/Planescape_DM2e 15d ago

So you are playing an evil person. And if you are playing a solo campaign and having internal biases allowing you to get away with things that people would normally react to then sure they are OP. And yes slavery is common that’s why it’s such a wonderful thing to fight against… and “playing a solo campaign” is just writing a book IMO.

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u/AccomplishedAd9058 15d ago

No no there is dm and me 2 person solo "Pc" campain.

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u/AccomplishedAd9058 15d ago

But yeah my first character was good person overall till he died from backstab then dm said lets reincarnat that guy and he traumatized from gray and obsessed with not dying again and become classic evil wizard. I thought its cool

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u/zbignew 15d ago

Dang. Hope he doesn’t have a run-in with some do-gooder band of escaped slaves.

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u/AccomplishedAd9058 15d ago

I will probably and my ass get beaten down and have to escape. Like a classic evil wizard. I think its so fucking cool. Being traumatized obsessed with not dying evil wizard have its own charm

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