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and more importantly, discuss the possibility of barbaric ELVES! (as the update seems to imply) will they wildly prance and frolick us to death in their berserker rages?!

a villain cipher would be an interesting thing to see... I can imagine many scenarios were psychic powers would be quite useful in exerting control over a faction.

yeah, i'll probably play monks looooong after i've play tested Rogues, Cyphers, the 3 other warrior classes and the wizard...it'll probably be the class i play just before the priest (bleh)

^ I imagine someone who can easily know all the devious perversions of others by simply gazing into their mind would be a bit of an outsider... all at level 1!!!!

nope, they fight people with the power of song, wine and dance! I assure you its only half as gay as it sounds...

maybe they are a religious sect that vows not to own property but through some historical incident needed to take up "arms" for their god? either way i'm not against the idea...i'm sure the class will be philosophically justified as well as fit in story wise.

i imagine the drawback is that he can't take 5 steps without having to stop and catch his breath.

won't be happy until i can tk crush people during an "aggressive" negotiation.

like i said before: FIRST.DAY.CLASS. me so excite!

hey man...you non-swordists can have whatever the hell you want. Come launch day my gentleman duelist better have a wide array of single handed swords at his disposal or i'll be fuming.

and where would you hide your phylactery, at your player house behind that painting of dogs playing poker?

i don't really see a problem with monks in the setting...if soul power can be used by fighters to augment attacks, by rogues to hide in plain sight and by priests to cast deity specific magic then why not a sect of monks who dedicate their lives to channeling their soul power through their body to produce super natural feats? I imagined people would have had more of a problem with cipher's to be honest....

just because the monk fights doesn't mean its asian themed...i think its more likely going to be a hermetic order centered around the contemplation of the gods/souls and how that power manifests in the body. either waaaay lalalalalalala i can't hear your negativity 'cuz psionics will be in the game yeah!!!!!!

yes, now looks sufficiently virginal and unsullied...but before, with that whore's boobplate of babylon +1 she had on...why, i almost blew a gasket at the sight of her!thank god my sensibilities were protected.

unf unf unf...we're getting psionics you pitiful girly men! you know how many years I waited for an rpg to do psionics?! huh?! /overreaction

I'm just glad Ciphers are almost in...now my dreams of playing a misunderstood, super powerful, unique and beautiful snowflake descendant of a godlike race can come true!

bro, just think "awesome class that can control people with their minds and then melt them with said mind once their usefulness has expired" and you'll be all set.

FIRST. DAY. CIPHER. 2nd day rogue!

i played BG2 multiplayer one time and the random guy i played with was so damn angry at life and everything in it that he scared the sh1t out of me...didn't even make it out of Irenicus's dunegon. i'm cool with no mp.

oh...I thought this was a given, my bad...

i'm very curious as to what sort of garbage the OP has been playing until now that only has magic swords and rings...

unless you are a lunatic who leaps head first into every encounter without even attempting to measure your capacity versus that of your foe then your mage shouldn't even be taking hits... mages, at lower levels, are meant to be guarded from fodder and unleashed when necessary... at higher levels they should be nigh unstoppable and require no protection save what they can get from their own spells.

there should only be one gender and body type, one race and one religion in rpg's...that way everyone is equally represented and no one is offended! the villain can be the person (of nondescript origin, don't want to offend) who wants to "shake things up"! That's the kind of world I would live in! yay!

AMEN. " *gasp* oh no.... BOOB ARMOR! RALLY THE WHINERS, THE WHITE KNIGHTS AND THE FEMENAZI'S!!!" seeing thread after thread and post after post of that crap is just mind numbing and disheartening.

i'd want characters to generally follow the rules except when his/her back story called for an exception...for example take Minsc, who has already been mentioned: he had a special ability to go berserk despite being a ranger, but since he was insane as well as a member of the Ice Troll berserker lodge of Rashemen he had that ability...he also had Boo... i expect the PC to get certain special story abilities (similar to the minor bhaalspawn spells of BG1) throughout the game...there is no reason for our companion characters not to develop in a similar fashion, in their own way.