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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Pentor" data-source="post: 134843" data-attributes="member: 3545">One of my players may consider becoming a soul knife.  He pointed out some things that I'm not sure of and wanted some other opinions.1)  Is the mind blade always a light weapon?  Obviously it is light when it's a short-sword.  But once you get the upgrade to a longsword, does it retain it's light weapon status?  It matters for two-weapon fighting.  It also matters because a halfing would not be able to use the long-sword version one-handed.2)  Can he use the mind blade as a dagger?  Doesn't really matter, but sylistically he may want a dagger some times.3)  Can he form a double-weapon out of the soul knife?  I say yes.  Does he need an exotic weapon proficiency to use it (in addition to ambi and 2-weapon)?  I say this depends on the answer to question 1.  If they are light weapons, then he could just fight two-weapons, rather than double-weapon and get the same attacks and damage, so fighting with a double-weapon is only because it's cool, and does not require an exotic weapon proficiency.  If it is not a light weapon, then it will require an exotic weapon preficiency.4)  If he casts polymorph self on himself, what happens to the mind blades he creates afterward?  Normally a weapon grows with you (so a medium-sized longsword grows from doing 1d8 to doing 2d6).  How about the mind blade that you are holding, or one that you create after you are big?What do you guys think?  Thanks<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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