Monks and Psionists?

Isolrem · Post by **Isolrem** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:58 am

Why don't we have these two classes in the game? Mind over matter... focusing energy, bare-handed fighting, and such. Psionists, at least, are not at all unheard of in Forgotten Realms.

Dalvyn · Post by **Dalvyn** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:10 am

I'm actually looking for a job, to start next September. If you can guarantee me a good salary, I'm willing to spend 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, building new areas, setting up animations, and writing detailed suggestions and perhaps code to implement those new classes and many other things!

*crosses his fingers hoping that Isolrem's player is a very very rich person who is going to answer 'Sure, yes, why not?'*

Belose · Post by **Belose** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:01 am

Okay, Dalvyn, just in case I win the Lotto or have something equally unlikely happen to bring me lots and lots of cash... how much would you do it for?

Ellian · Post by **Ellian** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:32 am

I'll toss in my milk money.

Dalvyn's areas rock my socks.

Jayson

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:19 pm

Dalvyn wrote:I'm actually looking for a job, to start next September. If you can guarantee me a good salary, I'm willing to spend 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, building new areas, setting up animations, and writing detailed suggestions and perhaps code to implement those new classes and many other things!

*crosses his fingers hoping that Isolrem's player is a very very rich person who is going to answer 'Sure, yes, why not?'*

lol

And they say sarcam is the lowest form of humour...

Ellian · Post by **Ellian** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 5:04 pm

I volunteer Zilvryn's lunch money as well.

Jayson

Isolrem · Post by **Isolrem** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:47 pm

I would be interested in working with the code a bit, would take me a long time though

I don't need 5 days a week and 8 dollars a day...

half of that will do

actually i'm somewhat serious for the first part.

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:44 am

Ellian wrote:I volunteer Zilvryn's lunch money as well.

Jayson

Don't make me fly to the states and beat you, Jay.

Talamar · Post by **Talamar** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:38 pm

I'd give MY Lunch money to see that....

Isolrem · Post by **Isolrem** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:59 pm

aye indeed

Gidan · Post by **Gidan** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:34 pm

Aside from the fact that it would take a long time, I think the Monk class would be a great new idea. I would set a fairly high kismet to create one
(250-350) So that we don't have a flood of monks all of a sudden.

Just my thoughts

Peace from the west east

Alaudrien · Post by **Alaudrien** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:48 pm

hehe hrm psionicist ..i thought the only psiopnicist in FR where mindflayers aka illithids? not sure but would be cool! good things are willing to wait for i say!

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:44 am

Psionics can be utilized by most races, but it is a talent you are born with rather than can learn, I have the Complete Psionics Handbook about 3 ft from my head, but its a long reach when you're sat down...

Suffice to say it is a playable class, although Illithids are generally recognised as the masters of this rare skill...

Dalvyn · Post by **Dalvyn** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:01 am

More seriously (since nobody seemed willing to offer me a job), the monk class has already been briefly discussed and will most likely be introduced ... when the time has come. Nothing has been said about the psionic classes though, since they are not really part of the well-known background of the Forgotten Realms.

Isolrem · Post by **Isolrem** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:07 pm

Really? I always liked the illithids, and Kimuriel, among others. Although the entire game seems to be less based of Salvatore's FR.

The psionist class is not unheard of in many AD&D games, as a result there is already a great arsenal of skill lists and playing idea one can have easy access to, even premade codes.

Just trying to convince you

Lerytha · Post by **Lerytha** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 7:33 pm

Issy (can I call you that?

). What I think Dalvyn is saying, is that "psionic" characters as they are do not exist. I have never really looked at them in much detail, but the idea of having psionics has never fitted in with the Realms campaign setting. In the Forgotten Realms: Campaign Setting, it has a brief mention of them, where it mentions it is nearly unheard of.

Illithids, etc, are in the Realms, and are quite often featured as the "baddies" of a novel. Those creatures are different to "psionic characters" however, who are something very... different.

So, yeah. Some of that might be wrong, but that's how I see it.

Balek · Post by **Balek** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 8:27 pm

I seem to recall that one of the houses of Menzo is a house full of psionicists, though they keep it quiet. It's my assumption that psionics exist in FR, but are fairly rare and not well understood.

Zilvryn · Post by **Zilvryn** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:14 pm

Yeh, House Oblodra, they were destroyed during the Time of Troubles as they tried to take advantage of magic/clerical powers going awry.. Baenre punished them and fed most of the house to demons...

Isolrem · Post by **Isolrem** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:14 am

Well, Issy thinks that the game is not based after the caimpagn setting, at least not entirely, and there should not be any fear in exploring a class already proved successful in other AD&D as well as being clearly present in FR.

Talamar · Post by **Talamar** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:43 am

Actually....

As we've touched on Psionics, which happen to be my complete and utter devotion when it comes to D&D, there are quite a few listings for Psionics in the Realms.

Venom's Taste actually just came out in paperback, which is the second in a trilogy of Novels, with a Psion for a main character, dealing mostly with Yuan-Ti also whom have psionics.

The East actually has lamasery's which are monastaries that train Psionics and monks.

Also, as Ziv said, the drow House of Psionicists.

So I wouldn't say that they are unheard of, they are rare, but definitely DO exist.