green slime said:I had the "auto" psion powers be relevant to their best stat*, so in this case, the Dire Illithibear would be using a powers from the Discipline of Psychometabolism, rather than Telepathy. These could be [/i]Claws of the Vampire[/i], Body Adjustment, and the power that lets you reduce damage to subdual damage.
*I've given Illithids 8 class levels in psion (8 because thats how many HD they have) instead of "free use psionics", except the plane shift, astral travelling powers that are beyond the reach of an 8th level psion. Then progression beyond that point is per standard rules "As character class". This gets illithids more powers, but they are limited to a (greater) number of power points.
Tewligan said:Anyway, just wanted to mention my progress - hopefully (knock on wood), I'll have him finished and painted over the weekend. I'll get pics up on this thread if I can bend the digital camera to my will.
Jürgen Hubert said:
Interesting, but I think I'll stick to my version here. There's nothing that says that an Illithid Dire Bear can't take additional levels in psion or pschic warrior - and in fact, most probably will. The "free use psionics" are just the powers innate to their species...
green slime said:
Yeah, I know, except I find it gets wonky:
8 HD Illithid with 3 levels of Psion has so few power points its silly, (IMHO). It isn't that much more powerful than a twinkie little Illithid. (hardly a CR11)
In fact, its low number of power points then becomes a liability!
Should the psion player do something really rash and engage in psionic combat with it, the illithid will find it quickly runs out of defenses! (which is rather strange, don't you think?)
So it can mindblast all day, but after defending itself for two rounds of "tower of iron will" it starts losing stats at an alarming rate?