D&D 3E/3.5 I like psionics…

[Voadam]

A houserule would be to give them both a competency bonus of +1 to hit every time they do not get a BAB. This would keep them competitive on meleeing the ACs of CR appropriate monsters without advancing their number of iterative attacks.

Trailblazer did this for rogues and monks and I always found it an elegant bump to fix the flurry of misses design problem in 3e era 3/4 BAB melee classes.

 

[TwoSix]

Dreamscarred's stuff is the way to go.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Honestly, when they decided to make the Lurk class, I wish they had fused the PsyWar and Soulknife into a single class. Give it the ability to manifest a few powers, a few bonus feats, and give it a psychic weapon which improves over time.

Either that, or make manifesting a psychic weapon into a Psionic Reserve feat that requires a base BAB and a certain amount of energy.

Because- love the mind blade though I do- its mechanical implementation in game was not enough to design a class around.

The more I think about that, the more I like it all. Just spitballing…

1) Make the Lurk the psionic rogue/assassin.
2) Make the Mind Weapon into a Reserve Feat, prereqs: +1BAB, 1PSP, ability to manifest psionic powers. At it’s base level, the Psionic character can create a weapon of pure psychic energy equivalent to a single simple or martial light weapon of the player’s choice that the PC is proficient with. (Other forms would become available as the character levels and/or by taking other feats.)
3) Fuse the PsyWar & Soulknife into a single warrior class that has a “half-manifester“ psionic power curve. The class gets the Mind Weapon reserve feat as a bonus feat at 1st level. As they leveled up, they would also get unique mind weapon abilities not available to other classes.

This would open using a mind weapon to a broader variety of Psionic characters, but the PsyWar would still have the best version of it.

 

[Arakhor]

Didn't Dreamscarred make the Soulknife a full (and useful) 20-level class? I've always liked 3.5 psionics and, in my opinion, that's how spellcasting should be, paying for your power boosts and using spell points rather than slots per day.

 

[Alzrius]

Didn't Dreamscarred make the Soulknife a full (and useful) 20-level class?

No, WotC did that, changing the soulknife from a 3.0 prestige class to a 3.5 base class.

 

[TwoSix]

No, WotC did that, changing the soulknife from a 3.0 prestige class to a 3.5 base class.

Although the Dreamscarred PF Soulknife is a much more robust and interesting class.

 

[Alzrius]

Although the Dreamscarred PF Soulknife is a much more robust and interesting class.

No argument there. They absolutely improved on the class, though they were already doing that well before Pathfinder came out; just look at High Psionics: Soulknives (affiliate link).

 

[Aldarc]

The more I think about that, the more I like it all. Just spitballing…

1) Make the Lurk the psionic rogue/assassin.
2) Make the Mind Weapon into a Reserve Feat, prereqs: +1BAB, 1PSP, ability to manifest psionic powers. At it’s base level, the Psionic character can create a weapon of pure psychic energy equivalent to a single simple or martial light weapon of the player’s choice that the PC is proficient with. (Other forms would become available as the character levels and/or by taking other feats.)
3) Fuse the PsyWar & Soulknife into a single warrior class that has a “half-manifester“ psionic power curve. The class gets the Mind Weapon reserve feat as a bonus feat at 1st level. As they leveled up, they would also get unique mind weapon abilities not available to other classes.

This would open using a mind weapon to a broader variety of Psionic characters, but the PsyWar would still have the best version of it.

Although the Dreamscarred PF Soulknife is a much more robust and interesting class.

Although based ob the 3.5 Warlock, I prefer Dreamscarred Press's Cryptic class for my psionic rogue.

 

[Arakhor]

Although the Dreamscarred PF Soulknife is a much more robust and interesting class.

That's the one I meant, yes.