[OOC] Psionicle, Thread II [Update! Please read and post!]

Animus Abdicerer
Medium Sized Humanoid (Human Soulknife 4
Hit Dice: 4d10+12 (37 hp)
Initiative: +2
Speed: 30 ft.
AC: 16 (+2 Dex, +3 armor, +1 shield), Touch: 14, Flat-Footed: 12
Attacks: Mind Blade +7 melee (1d6+4/19-20x2); or +3 Mindcrusher Quarterstaff +9 melee (1d6+7/x2); or Composite Shortbow +5 ranged (1d6/x3)
Racial Traits: Favored Class (Soulknife), bonus skill points, bonus feat
Class Features: +1 mind blade, psychic strike +1d8, throw mind blade
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +6, Will +4
Abilities: Str 16, Dex 15, Con 16, Int 10, Wis 10, Cha 10 Per 8.
Skills: +5 Climb [2 ranks], +5 Concentration [2 ranks], Hide +9 [7 ranks], +10 Jump [5 ranks], +2 Listen [2 ranks], +9 Move Silently [7 ranks], +2 Spot [2 ranks], +21 Tumble [7 ranks].
Feats: Power Attack, Psionic Weapon, Two-weapon fighting, [Weapon Focus (mind blade)],[Wild Talent]

Experience: 8168

Equipment
Skin of Nimbleness (2,000 gp)
MW Leather Armor (160 gp)
Composite Shortbow (100 gp)
Masterwork Studded Leather (175 gp)
Masterwork Buckler (165 gp)
+3 Mindcrusher Quarterstaff (90,600 gp)
Gold Pieces (47 gp)

Wild Talent (2 Power Points)
0 - Missive

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Soulknives are proficient with all simple weapons, with their own mind blades, and with light armor and shields (except tower shields).

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. For instance, a Medium soulknife materializes a Medium mind blade that he can wield as a light weapon, and the blade deals 1d6 points of damage (crit 19-20/x2). Soulknives who are smaller or larger than Medium create mind blades identical to short swords appropriate for their size, with a corresponding change to the blade's damage (see Table 7-4 and Table 7-5 in the Player's Handbook). The wielder of a mind blade gains the usual benefits to his attack roll and damage roll from a high Strength bonus.

The blade can be broken (it has hardness 10 and 10 hit points); however, a soulknife can simply create another on his next move action. The moment he relinquishes his grip on his blade, it dissipates (unless he intends to throw it; see below). A mind blade is considered a magic weapon for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

A soulknife can use feats such as Power Attack or Combat Expertise in conjunction with the mind blade just as if it were a normal weapon. He can also choose mind blade for feats requiring a specific weapon choice, such as Weapon Specialization. Powers or spells that upgrade weapons can be used on a mind blade.

Even in places where psionic effects do not normally function (such as within a null psionics field), a soulknife can attempt to sustain his mind blade by making a DC 20 Will save. On a successful save, the soulknife maintains his mind blade for a number of rounds equal to his class level before he needs to check again. On an unsuccessful attempt, the mind blade vanishes. As a move action on his turn, the soulknife can attempt a new Will save to rematerialize his mind blade while he remains within the psionics-negating effect.

Throw Mind Blade (Ex): A soulknife of 2nd level or higher can throw his mind blade as a ranged weapon with a range increment of 30 feet. Whether or not the attack hits, a thrown mind blade then dissipates. A soulknife of 3rd level or higher can make a psychic strike (see below) with a thrown mind blade and can use the blade in conjunction with other special abilities (such as Knife to the Soul; see below).

Psychic Strike (Su): As a move action, a soulknife of 3rd level or higher can imbue his mind blade with destructive psychic energy. This effect deals an extra 1d8 points of damage to the next living, nonmindless target he successfully hits with a melee attack (or ranged attack, if he is using the throw mind blade ability). Creatures immune to mind-affecting effects are immune to psychic strike damage. (Unlike the rogue's sneak attack, the psychic strike is not precision damage and can affect creatures otherwise immune to extra damage from critical hits or more than 30 feet away, provided they are living, nonmindless creatures not immune to mind-affecting effects.)

A mind blade deals this extra damage only once when this ability is called upon, but a soulknife can imbue his mind blade with psychic energy again by taking another move action.

Once a soulknife has prepared his blade for a psychic strike, it holds the extra energy until it is used. Even if the soulknife drops the mind blade (or it otherwise dissipates, such as when it is thrown and misses), it is still imbued with psychic energy when the soulknife next materializes it.
 
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Looks alright to me...

Though I am interested on how you plan on handling the mindblade thing, which is something you didn't have before...
 



Hrm... you could be right. I looked at Wild Talents short:

Wild Talent -- Gain psionic ability and 2 power points

and took "Gain psionic ability" to mean gains a 0 level power or something like that. It might not grant that, though, as I don't have the source.
 

That's a reasonable assumption. I don't see a problem with it. :)

We'll go with that for now, until we have the actual XPH and can look at it.
 

I'll never be able to manifest Psionic Weapon as much though, from here on out I get to send just two messages (instead of 14) per day, or I can use Psionic Weapon twice. 'tis sad. I get my Charge attacks though, which more than make up for it once I start using Mind-Blade. Oh, and I lost Hustle... which though small, could be very helpful. The extra five hit points were not a bad addition though.
 

Well, we could probably adapt the Psionic Focus thingy for you, since the feat table has a foot-note attached to Psionic Weapon saying that you must expend psionic focus to use it.
But looks good for me, I have nothing against Animus changing to a soulknife (Now I'll have to wait and see how constructs have changed, and what kind of changes we'll need to do to the Constructor PrC).
 


Since Psionic Weapon adds +2d6 now and nolonger has power attack as a pre-req, I'm thinking thats it is going to be much more power point dependant. I'm going to switch both feats out for plain old dodge and mobility if that is alright.

Edit: I re-noticed my lack of martial weapon proficiency, so I changed the shortbow out for a light crossbow.
 
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