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<blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 882591" data-attributes="member: 3051"><p>Ironically, my last psionic PC (level 15) had 12 ranks in it, along with 25-30 ranks in other Craft skills (mostly in sculpting and armorsmith). He was a Shaper, what else was he going to spend all those skill points on?</p><p>Add +2 for an Artiste psicrystal, +2 for a luck bonus from an item, and another +2 from a Prestige Class ability. Oh yeah, as a Shaper he had a big INT bonus. If we had allowed all those +10 skill items it would have been ridiculous.</p><p>One of my main tactics was to figure out new and unusual ways to use the <em>Fabricate</em> power. It started off as a "hmm, a block of mithral? I'll make a masterwork sword!" ability and ended up as a far more destructive (and useful) ability.</p><p></p><p>The trick was, you could declare practically ANYTHING to be raw materials. The only question was what you could convince the DM of: "I'll make a suit of leather armor out of that monster's skin! What do you mean he's still wearing it? It's all just raw material, isn't it?" (DM didn't go for that one.)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, to the earlier point, my Craft check was so high that with the later rule you mentioned (the 1 damage per two points of success), if I looked at a sword funny it'd shatter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spatzimaus, post: 882591, member: 3051"] Ironically, my last psionic PC (level 15) had 12 ranks in it, along with 25-30 ranks in other Craft skills (mostly in sculpting and armorsmith). He was a Shaper, what else was he going to spend all those skill points on? Add +2 for an Artiste psicrystal, +2 for a luck bonus from an item, and another +2 from a Prestige Class ability. Oh yeah, as a Shaper he had a big INT bonus. If we had allowed all those +10 skill items it would have been ridiculous. One of my main tactics was to figure out new and unusual ways to use the [i]Fabricate[/i] power. It started off as a "hmm, a block of mithral? I'll make a masterwork sword!" ability and ended up as a far more destructive (and useful) ability. The trick was, you could declare practically ANYTHING to be raw materials. The only question was what you could convince the DM of: "I'll make a suit of leather armor out of that monster's skin! What do you mean he's still wearing it? It's all just raw material, isn't it?" (DM didn't go for that one.) Anyway, to the earlier point, my Craft check was so high that with the later rule you mentioned (the 1 damage per two points of success), if I looked at a sword funny it'd shatter. [/QUOTE]
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