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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3508684" data-attributes="member: 13966">Yep yep, that's how I've always pictured them too.  I don't like the XPH's d10 HD for them cuz it gives the impression they're supposed to be front-line stand-up-and-duke-it-out types, rather than spring-outta-nowhere-psychic-weapon assassins who specialize in dishing out sudden, big hits, rather than lots of them in a Fighterish fashion.Yep, I thought the same things when I first looked at the XPH version.  The 3.0 version was better suited to taking down enemies quickly with Sever Life, Knife to the Soul, Sneak Attack, and the Imbed Power/Psionic Attack abilities.  Though the XPH version is best suited to a psion 3/rogue 3/soulknife X, it still gets its full offensive deadliness earlier than the XPH version.  The XPH version does at least still have a useful function for Knife to the Soul, though with the stupid change that they no longer deal Constitution damage with it (you'd think with the name it would still have that option, even if they reduced the amount of Con damage when doing that instead of mental stat damage).  And at least the XPH version retains some of the 3.0 version's emphasis on ninja-like or assassin-like tactics.Hrrrm, I dunno about those changes.  Simply tacking on bard-like psionics progression would be too much, unless you reduce the hit dice to d6 as well and take off one or two of the soulknife class features (I suppose it's arguable though whether or not the soulknife's class features are better than Bardic Music, I dunno).</blockquote>

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