Dark Sun Character Themes? How does it work with Psionic characters?

wagenejm

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When you reach a level that would have an encounter power theme swap, how does this function for psionic characters? Do you skip your power points? Do you give up your at-will? Maybe I missed something in my initial glance over the new stuff in the book, but how is this supposed to function?
 

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I saw no rules to cover this.

I would simply consider the 3rd and above at-wills encounters, and let them swap them in that manner. If the character were not psionic before, I would give the class no points to augment with, though.

As for psionics getting other encounters, they already do this with PPs (even psionic PPs, which is very odd design) so no need to change anything.

That is what I would do.
 

It needs to be addressed, but here's how I see it... It's basically equivalent to multiclassing into a non-Psionic class. Trade in one of your three At-Wills. If you swap out a 3rd or 7th level At-Will, lose 2 power points. 13th or 17th is 4 power points. 23rd or 27th is worth 6 power points.

-O
 

It seems like this situation were overlooked, which seems rather strange, considering the rules are being implemented in a campaign setting that is very strongly built around psionics, and yet there is no mention of how the rules for the themes fit with psionics.

All I can say is.. Whoops?
 

Stumbled on this from Google while looking for this very answer. Has there been any word on how this works? I could go for a loss of PP if a psionic takes a theme encounter power, but losing the at will as well would be painful.
 

Wow, very good question. I dont think this has been thought out too well, and psionics is core to darksun in general.

Not only that, if you "swap out", does that mean you loose the at-will manifestation of the power you are swapping out as well? So if I fully embraced the theme, I would have not at-wills left?

(Or did psionic multi-classing specifically cover this?)
 

Really and truly, there's a zero percent chance the answer will be anything other than "It works just like Encounter power swap feats do."

So you
(1) Lose an At-Will of the appropriate level, and
(2) You take the Encounter power of your Theme of equal level, and you lose 2/4/6 power points depending on the tier of the Theme Encounter power you just took.

Remember that Theme powers don't level up automatically, apart from the Level 1 feature. You don't get your Level 3 Theme Encounter power buffed to its Level 13 version without trading out your Level 13 power for it. So it all works out, power-point wise.

-O
 


It's up to the DM. Either:

(A) Just don't allow a psionic to take the encounter powers. They can still use the utility powers, the level 1 encounter and the paragon paths, etc, they just miss out on one thing. Like a Slayer Fighter doesn't have access to fighter encounter powers (or, for that matter, access to encounter attack powers from a theme either)

(B) Treat the encounter attack powers from the theme as available via multiclass swap. Since there are already rules in place for how that would work, it's simply a matter of copying the rules for how that works.
 

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