Creating a Warmind

[Bront]

I'd like to build a character who will eventualy become a warmind. I'm open to suggestions as to the best way to go about it using SRD only classes. If possable, I'd like to avoid a psionic or magic class ahead of time, but I can't figure out how to get KN: Psionics as a class skill.

Remember, this has to be SRD.

 

[Camarath]

I think the Soulknife is perhaps the least psionic or magical class with Knowledge (psionics) as a class skill. Every other class with Knowledge (psionics) appears to have a casting ability.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Yep, Soulknife is probably the best. Take 5 levels of that, and you can roll right into Warmind, and it's the least overtly psionic of the psionic classes.

Bard has all Knowledge skills in class, so it could take K (Psionics).

Brad

 

[Jack Simth]

Anything with Knoweledge(Any) can get into Warmind - A Cleric of the Knoweledge Domain, a Wizard, a Bard; as well as anything with the specific Knowledge(Psionics) - which is any of the Psionics classes, really. Although if you take a class that doesn't give you power points, you need to either go with a race that does, or grab the feat that gives them to you.

 

[Brain]

Why avoid psionic or magic classes beforehand?

I'd suggest Psychic Warrior 2 / Fighter 2 / Barbarian 1 (or psw1/ftr4 or psw4/ftr1 or psw1/ftr2/bbn2 or psw4/bbn1) as a short path to Warmind using SRD classes. Depends on character concept and race and such.

 

[Bront]

The concept was that he eventualy devised the use of Psionics after studying it throughly and eventualy learned to use his mind in combat, so I was looking for mostly fighter going into Warmind, and take wild tallent. I might settle for Psycic Warrior/Fighter though, which gives me a few extra power points and still sort of fits.

Unfortuantely there doesn't seem to be much of a choice. Probably do Psy-War, Psi-war, Fighter, Fighter, Psi-war., and later pick up the 2 other fighter levels to get specialization (Or maybe get the second level of fighter and then Psy-war). Goes a bit against the initial concept, but it works for a man trying to explore using his mind as a weapon, and eventualy doing it. I was sort of going for full BAB if I could too, but that may not be much of an issue.

 

[Daermon]

For my money, straight Soulknife with a Ring of Force Shield is the way to go.

No encumberance or weight issues evar!

 

[Bront]

Quick question about the warmind. Can a Warmind/Psi-Warrior use powers from the other at the higher manifest level? They both work off the same list. Or is it just like as if they were a different class, but they just share PSPs?

 

[Brain]

Quick question about the warmind. Can a Warmind/Psi-Warrior use powers from the other at the higher manifest level? They both work off the same list. Or is it just like as if they were a different class, but they just share PSPs?

The latter. The manifester levels and power lists are seperate but the overall PSPs are shared. What I did was got powers that were useful without augmentation with the psywar levels and saved the augmentable ones for warmind powers.

If you want to see how my Warmind turned out, check out the link in my sig to Inoke. (I started him at 18th level, so its not exactly the same situation. His starting mix was
PsW2 / Bbn 2 / Ftr 4 / Wmd 10.

 

[Jack Simth]

If I recall correctly, Manifester levels are cumulative - you get the sum of the power points of all your manifesting classes, and the sum of the powers known, and the sum of the manifester levels. A Psion 5/ Wilder 5 would have a manifester level of 10, be able to know 3rd level Psion powers, 2nd level Wilder powers, and have a base PP pool of 50 points.