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What's the Order up to?

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#1
zombiegleemax
Sep 08, 2004 19:00:50 What role does the Order play in your campaigns? If I remember my reading correctly, after the destruction of the psionitrix and the death of several members, they kind of fell apart, but it doesn't seem like that would continue forever.

Additionally, in 2e, members of the order were thought of as being quite "epic" with their highest level members being comparable to the SK's in terms of raw power, although with different goals. Where do you see them ranking in terms of stat sheets in 3.5? Using Xlorep's dragon king builds that he posted a while back as an example, a 20th psion or even 30th psion would hardly be a speedbump to the most minor of the SK's.
#2
xlorepdarkhelm_dup
Sep 08, 2004 19:52:17 I personally have the Order as an over-arching society of Epic Psionic characters. They don't even begin to look for potential candidates to add to their ranks until that person is an Epic manifester (psion, wilder, and maybe even psychic warrior - but I dunno about that last one). Sure, they individually aren't as powerful as the Sorcerer-King, but honestly, I don't think they should be. The Order avoids Sorcerer-Kings, doesn't suppress them or dictate policy to them. However, I'd think that there's some pretty high-ranking members of the Order that are close to, if not equal or even greater than the Sorcerer-Kings.
#3
Sysane
Sep 08, 2004 20:17:56 Makes you wonder how the Order would react to the Mindlords if they knew of their existance.
#4
zombiegleemax
Sep 08, 2004 21:08:06
What role does the Order play in your campaigns? If I remember my reading correctly, after the destruction of the psionitrix and the death of several members, they kind of fell apart, but it doesn't seem like that would continue forever.

If you read what David Noonan wrote in Dungeon #110, the Order is still in a state of dissolution. Not that this means you must do this or anything.
#5
Sysane
Sep 09, 2004 8:56:07 Wasn't Gullum from Nexus part of the Order at one time?
#6
zombiegleemax
Sep 09, 2004 12:34:26 IMC, during the events of Dragon's Crown, the only segment of the Order only minimally involved in the internal conflict was the Psychoporter's Guild, most of whose members were elsewhere (extraplanar) or elsewhen (remember when Time Travel was a power you could take?), so their ranks were the least affected. Being the only group with any intact organization, they rapidly are able to stage a coup over the remaining factions.

All is well, until several centuries in the future, when Dregoth masters the art of time travel, and sends his templars across the time stream to distrupt the continuum and recover various Blue and Green Age artifacts to help him in his final struggle to defeat the Kreen Empire This action, of course, puts him in direct conflict with the Psychoporters of the Order.

So the most recent thing I had happening was a legion of future-dray returning to "present" time to steal a life-shaped artifact discovered by the halfling shapers of Thamasku.

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#1 zombiegleemax Sep 08, 2004 19:00:50	What role does the Order play in your campaigns? If I remember my reading correctly, after the destruction of the psionitrix and the death of several members, they kind of fell apart, but it doesn't seem like that would continue forever. Additionally, in 2e, members of the order were thought of as being quite "epic" with their highest level members being comparable to the SK's in terms of raw power, although with different goals. Where do you see them ranking in terms of stat sheets in 3.5? Using Xlorep's dragon king builds that he posted a while back as an example, a 20th psion or even 30th psion would hardly be a speedbump to the most minor of the SK's.
#2 xlorepdarkhelm_dup Sep 08, 2004 19:52:17	I personally have the Order as an over-arching society of Epic Psionic characters. They don't even begin to look for potential candidates to add to their ranks until that person is an Epic manifester (psion, wilder, and maybe even psychic warrior - but I dunno about that last one). Sure, they individually aren't as powerful as the Sorcerer-King, but honestly, I don't think they should be. The Order avoids Sorcerer-Kings, doesn't suppress them or dictate policy to them. However, I'd think that there's some pretty high-ranking members of the Order that are close to, if not equal or even greater than the Sorcerer-Kings.
#3 Sysane Sep 08, 2004 20:17:56	Makes you wonder how the Order would react to the Mindlords if they knew of their existance.
#4 zombiegleemax Sep 08, 2004 21:08:06	What role does the Order play in your campaigns? If I remember my reading correctly, after the destruction of the psionitrix and the death of several members, they kind of fell apart, but it doesn't seem like that would continue forever. If you read what David Noonan wrote in Dungeon #110, the Order is still in a state of dissolution. Not that this means you must do this or anything.
#5 Sysane Sep 09, 2004 8:56:07	Wasn't Gullum from Nexus part of the Order at one time?
#6 zombiegleemax Sep 09, 2004 12:34:26	IMC, during the events of Dragon's Crown, the only segment of the Order only minimally involved in the internal conflict was the Psychoporter's Guild, most of whose members were elsewhere (extraplanar) or elsewhen (remember when Time Travel was a power you could take?), so their ranks were the least affected. Being the only group with any intact organization, they rapidly are able to stage a coup over the remaining factions. All is well, until several centuries in the future, when Dregoth masters the art of time travel, and sends his templars across the time stream to distrupt the continuum and recover various Blue and Green Age artifacts to help him in his final struggle to defeat the Kreen Empire This action, of course, puts him in direct conflict with the Psychoporters of the Order. So the most recent thing I had happening was a legion of future-dray returning to "present" time to steal a life-shaped artifact discovered by the halfling shapers of Thamasku.