interesting question

[Meatboy]

Yeah if it has a damage type. I'd say it would leave wounds consistent with that type of damage.

 

[Ashtagon]

My personal take on all weapons is that hp damage represents effort spent aviding a real injury. "Damage" may result in a scratch, bruise, or other significant injury, but it can also represent effort/chi/stamina/hero shield/divine will spend avoiding the attack. It's only when you reach into single-digit hp or negative hp that the hp loss always represents real injuries.

Actually killing someone with a weapon, whether mundane or simulated through arcane/divine/psionic means, would definitely leave a mark.

Whether local forensic science is up to the task of identifying the weapon used is another question.

 

[Dandu]

If I ever wind up in your 3.5Ed game, I will play a Soulknife, just for spite.

It'll hurt you more than me, mate.

I think if anything this thread would seem to indicate that mechanically no-one knows and few people have a strong opinion either way (except [MENTION=85158]Dandu[/MENTION] who straight decides "Yes" with no real explanation or evidence).

Mind Blade (Su)
As a move action, a soulknife can create a semisolid blade composed of psychic energy distilled from his own mind. The blade is identical in all ways (except visually) to a short sword of a size appropriate for its wielder.

I'm the decider. I decide this means it leaves a mark.

 

[Omegaxicor]

I meant no insult by that, everyone explained themselves you just said "The answer is yes", actually reading the bit you quoted I'd agree with you, I had forgotten about that

 

[Tovec]

I'm confused by the original question. Are you asking if being attacked by the soulknife's blade leaves behind cuts?

If so I'd say yes.

Unless I'm wildly missing the point a soulknife is basically Psylocke (from xmen). I assume her blades cut too.

But perhaps I'm missing something.

 

[kage69]

I'm confused by the original question. Are you asking if being attacked by the soulknife's blade leaves behind cuts?

If so I'd say yes.

Unless I'm wildly missing the point a soulknife is basically Psylocke (from xmen). I assume her blades cut too.

But perhaps I'm missing something.

yes, that was the original question

no, Psylocke's psyblade does not leave a mark of any kind

 

[kage69]

I guess in retrospect, it would ideally be up to the GM...

yes, the power acts like a short sword (at lower levels) but the way I have understood it from reading, but than again I do have a history of misinterpeting things... that it's a visual representation of a soulknife's mind blade, it's composed of psychic energy thus if dropped it disappears and the soulknife can reforge it the following round...

thus it could conceiviably leave no mark, or leaves a short term mark like a bruising, a red mark where it was struck, etc...

I guess for the prospect of the soulknife in the story i'm planning on that it doesn't leave a mark as it is a story...

but as for the actual character i'm considering... he/she would start off as a soulknife/rogue hybrid and eventually (if lives long enough) picking up the Soulbow Prestige Class

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It'll hurt you more than me, mate.

After you- or the other players- kill him, I'll play a Monk.

After she bites it, there shall be the Monk/Soulknife/Binder/Pyrokineticist.

 

[Dandu]

I guess for the prospect of the soulknife in the story i'm planning on that it doesn't leave a mark as it is a story...

So how does it slice and/or dice?

 

[kage69]

it doesn't slice and dice as you put it, rather piercing