UA Soulknife Rogue character

[vulcan_idic]

So I love the Soulknife Rogue! I enjoyed the Mystic Soulknife, but I feel like the Rogue version is a lot more exciting to me.

I'm thinking of a new character that I'm making at level 1 with the idea of using in a game if/when I find a game in my new area with a DM who will hopefully approve of the use of UA material.

My basic idea is a infiltrator/spy/face/skill character with a little bit of assassiny-ness in the back pocket just in case.

Race: Changeling

Classes: Soulknife Rogue and probably Lore Bard (bringing a skillfulness that will enable me to try to have a decent chance of impersonating a broad range of people with different skill sets)

Abilities (Standard array, pre-Changeling ability score application):
STR: 8
DEX: 14 (Changeling +1)
CON: 10
INT: 15
WIS: 12
CHA: 13 (Changeling +2)

I'm not sure if in the end this would be more of a Rogue with a Bard dip or a Bard with a Rogue dip or what. I'm pretty decided on the first level character creation being a 1st level Rogue with the Entertainer backgroud (a hint that in some respects they are already a Bard) who is a brand new initiate/recruit for a Harpers-type organization that will mentor and train me to become the skilled spy I will eventually become.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Josh

 

[vulcan_idic]

This is the character portrait I'm going with...

 

[Salthorae]

Abilities (Standard array, pre-Changeling ability score application):
STR: 8
DEX: 14 (Changeling +1)
CON: 10
INT: 15
WIS: 12
CHA: 13 (Changeling +2)

if you're going Rogue/Lore Bard... why are you putting Int as your highest stat?

I'd think this array would be better:
Str: 8
Dex: 15+1 = 16
Con: 10 (eh if you want... no Con mod makes me weary, but...)
Int: 14
Wis: 12
Cha: 13+2 = 15

Even more would be:
Str: 8
Dex: 15+1=16
Con: 10
Int: 13
Wis: 12
Cha: 14+2=16

That focuses you stat bonuses on the things you're really good at, and it frees up your 4th level ASI for a feat like Observant or something to move your Int to 14.

That's what I'd do anyway.

 

[vulcan_idic]

Accidental Duplicate due to network interference.

 

[vulcan_idic]

if you're going Rogue/Lore Bard... why are you putting Int as your highest stat?

Because the Soulknife Rogue has abilities that key off the Int modifier including an ability that can increase HP by Int modifier +Rogue level as well as establishing the saving throw for some higher level Rogue (Soulknife) abilities. Also after applying the Changeling ability mods Intelligence would no longer be the highest Ability but rather coequal with Dex and Cha.

At some point I might also be interested in the Telepathic and Telekinetic Feats presented in the UA. I see myself more as a skillful/face character than a caster of any sort or even a warrior. The casting from Bard is more of a sideline I think.

 

[Salthorae]

Because the Soulknife Rogue has abilities that key off the Int modifier including an ability that can increase HP by Int modifier +Rogue level as well as establishing the saving throw for some higher level Rogue (Soulknife) abilities. Also after applying the Changeling ability mods Intelligence would no longer be the highest Ability but rather coequal with Dex and Cha.

At some point I might also be interested in the Telepathic and Telekinetic Feats presented in the UA. I see myself more as a skillful/face character than a caster of any sort or even a warrior. The casting from Bard is more of a sideline I think.

Hmm, good point.

I guess I just really don't like odd #'s on stats, it messes with my mind or something and your current plan has you with
Str 8
Dex 15
Con 10
Int 15
Wis 12
Cha 15

So you're... ok at quite a few things, but not great anywhere. Maybe consider this as a change? It would still leave you free to take the Telekinetic/Telepathic feat at 4th for a +1 Int to get you to 16

Str 8
Dex 13+1=14
Con 10
Int 15
Wis 12
Cha 14+2 = 16

 

[Umbran]

Mod Note:

Moving this to the appropriate forum....

 

[vulcan_idic]

OK, thanks for the input, I'll think about that! My initial thought about having three 15s, each one point away from a bump, was that being proficient with a large number of skills with Expertise in several I was trying to spread the abilities broad and even rather than specializing - a jack of all trades rather than a master of one. This isn't usually the best way I think but in this case it seemed to fit - a changeling trying to be good enough at a lot of different things to be able to fool people into thinking they're better than they actually are when the situation demands.

 

[vulcan_idic]

Mod Note:

Moving this to the appropriate forum....

Thanks! Sorry! I think the forum structure has changed a bit since I used to spend more time here years ago. Sorry I put it in the wrong place!

 

[vulcan_idic]

BTW Salthorae, any thoughts on class mix - Rogue dipping bard, Bard dipping Rogue, or more or less equal class levels?