Zach J.
2014-01-10, 07:55 PM
As I said in a previous thread I have been recently invited to play in an upcoming D&D campaign. The other players have decided to make a paladin, a rogue and either a sorcerer or a wizard. I had decided upon a cleric, but have recently begun to question that choice. You see in the last campaign I played in I made a cleric for a similar party (a fighter, a paladin, a rogue and a sorcerer).
The cleric was a radiant servant of Pelor and I built him as a formidable healer. I know that that is a less than optimal path for a cleric, but even with my lackluster feat selection and my spell choices I managed to prove be a thorn in my DM's side. He had a couple years experience as a Dungeon Master, but not much experience with spellcasters, or at least with spellcasters that did anything besides cast damage dealing spells. There were several times in the game where he would introduce a challenge that I would solve with a single spell, leading to his muttering, "I forgot you could do that."
I'd like to avoid similar situations in this game as this is the new DM's first time running. It's hard enough trying to plan suitable challenges for a party, let alone a party that includes a member who can change their spells every day.
I'd still like to play a healer and I'd like to limit myself to just a couple books if possible, including the Player's Handbook. I've always liked psionics, but have never really had the opportunity to play a psionic character. With that in mind I decided to try to make a psionic healer, an egoist who eventually takes the sangehirn prestige class: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20040625c
Do you have any tips and tricks for a player who is relatively new to psionics? How should I explain the system to a DM who is even less familiar with it than I am? Can one make a reasonable healer just using the Player's Handbook, the Psionics Handbook and the one online article (I'm fine using more web content from The Mind's Eye if neccessary...)?
The cleric was a radiant servant of Pelor and I built him as a formidable healer. I know that that is a less than optimal path for a cleric, but even with my lackluster feat selection and my spell choices I managed to prove be a thorn in my DM's side. He had a couple years experience as a Dungeon Master, but not much experience with spellcasters, or at least with spellcasters that did anything besides cast damage dealing spells. There were several times in the game where he would introduce a challenge that I would solve with a single spell, leading to his muttering, "I forgot you could do that."
I'd like to avoid similar situations in this game as this is the new DM's first time running. It's hard enough trying to plan suitable challenges for a party, let alone a party that includes a member who can change their spells every day.
I'd still like to play a healer and I'd like to limit myself to just a couple books if possible, including the Player's Handbook. I've always liked psionics, but have never really had the opportunity to play a psionic character. With that in mind I decided to try to make a psionic healer, an egoist who eventually takes the sangehirn prestige class: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20040625c
Do you have any tips and tricks for a player who is relatively new to psionics? How should I explain the system to a DM who is even less familiar with it than I am? Can one make a reasonable healer just using the Player's Handbook, the Psionics Handbook and the one online article (I'm fine using more web content from The Mind's Eye if neccessary...)?