Psionic Warrior class in Green Ronin's "Psychic's Handbook"?

[Geron Raveneye]

I've read quite a few reviews about The Psychic's Handbook now, and all of them make me want to buy it..and I found a place to get it for 11.95€. Now all I'd be interested in is if there's some replacement for the Psychic Warrior in there, and some system for Psychic Combat?

So, anybody out there who can answer those for me?

 

[Geron Raveneye]

Bumpity Bump

 

[Davelozzi]

The only basic (20 level) class is the Psychic.

Prestige Classes include Beastmaster, Fire-Starter, Ghost Stalker, Mind Hunter, Psychic Adept, Psychic Healer, and Modern Psychic (advanced class). Of those, Beatmaster, Ghost Stalked, Mind Hunter, and Psychic Adept all have good BAB and d8 HD, so they could sort of fill the Psychic Warrior niche. I haven't examined any of them in great detail, but probably at a glance it appears that Psychic Adept may be the closest fit.

The closest analogy to psychic combat appears to be psychic grappling, but I have not looked at in detail.

 

[Tumbler]

The core psychic class has the same BAB as the psychic warrior. With a level or two of monk or fighter, you can make a capable frontline or hit and run warrior using the rules in the book. The best thing is that the psychic abilities are skill based, so you can access high level abilities without having all of your levels in psychic. With the fighter levels, you will lose some skill points (and likely not be as diversified as a pure psychic), but you can still have a great TK ability or defence or physical boosts or whatever.

 

[Owldragon]

Davelozzi is right about the classes. Several of the prestige classes have medium BAB, and the Psychic Adept is a pretty good fit for a Psychic Warrior. It's also worth noting that multiclassing works well with psychics, so a simple fighter/psychic could work as well.

Psychic combat is handled through the use of psychic skills, primarily Mental Contact and Psychic shield. Once contact has been established, there's also mental grappling, as Davelozzi mentioned; that is handled a lot like physical grappling, and success can give you a bonus when using psychic skills that require mental contact.

 

[Geron Raveneye]

Thanks!

That's definitely useful to know. Guess that means some online store soon will have my money again