Has anybody done a Jedi-style warlock?
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theredrobedwizard
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Just reflavor the Eldritch Blast, really. Add a "Lightsaber" invocation, that basically works like a Soulknife's Mindblade.
Make the Blast Shape invocations be different force powers (as described by the player. One might have Force Lightning, while another has Move Object). Some of the invocations would need to be dropped (Baleful Utterance, in particular), but ones like Beguiling Influence and that one that adds to Tumble/Jump/Balance work well. Charm is Affect Mind, etc.
It's all about description. Some of them (the bat swarm one and the animate dead one) would have to be Sith Sorceries, but other than that.
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Make the Blast Shape invocations be different force powers (as described by the player. One might have Force Lightning, while another has Move Object). Some of the invocations would need to be dropped (Baleful Utterance, in particular), but ones like Beguiling Influence and that one that adds to Tumble/Jump/Balance work well. Charm is Affect Mind, etc.
It's all about description. Some of them (the bat swarm one and the animate dead one) would have to be Sith Sorceries, but other than that.
-TRRW
Spatzimaus
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What you seem to be asking for is a class that has more innate bonuses and spell-like abilities that can be used at will, like the Warlock, but without being quite so focused on the blast mechanic.
It's been done. As the previous poster said, you could just swap ranged attacks for melee attacks, and replace spell-like invocations with other ones. It's easy enough, and the balance isn't difficult.
Alternatively, if you go read up on the various superhero d20 games, this is the core of how most of their "hero" classes seem to work; most are more open-ended, with a point-buy ability system (I always liked Four Colors To Fantasy's "Hero" class for this, and we adapted that for our homebrew). But the key is that they don't rely on the X/day or slot systems the D&D Vancian spellcasters use.
But I'd also suggest that if you REALLY want a melee-oriented class with psionic abilities that can do all sorts of impossible physical things, and you don't want to spend a long time redesigning and rebalancing the Warlock, you should just look at the Psychic Warrior in the XPH, or possibly one of the "Psionic Monk" variants people have posted on this board over the years (there are tons of them).
It's been done. As the previous poster said, you could just swap ranged attacks for melee attacks, and replace spell-like invocations with other ones. It's easy enough, and the balance isn't difficult.
Alternatively, if you go read up on the various superhero d20 games, this is the core of how most of their "hero" classes seem to work; most are more open-ended, with a point-buy ability system (I always liked Four Colors To Fantasy's "Hero" class for this, and we adapted that for our homebrew). But the key is that they don't rely on the X/day or slot systems the D&D Vancian spellcasters use.
But I'd also suggest that if you REALLY want a melee-oriented class with psionic abilities that can do all sorts of impossible physical things, and you don't want to spend a long time redesigning and rebalancing the Warlock, you should just look at the Psychic Warrior in the XPH, or possibly one of the "Psionic Monk" variants people have posted on this board over the years (there are tons of them).
Asmor
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I made a "Spirit Knight" class a long time ago which is basically a jedi. Sadly, I wasn't really aware of the Warlock back when I made the class, or I definitely would have made it an invocation user.
http://www.asmor.com/misc/D&D/classes/js/spiritknight.html
Semi-related, I've got invocation-based elementalist and healer classes as well. Let me know if you're interested and I'll link them.
http://www.asmor.com/misc/D&D/classes/js/spiritknight.html
Semi-related, I've got invocation-based elementalist and healer classes as well. Let me know if you're interested and I'll link them.
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