Soulknife, psychic strike and dual mind blades?

[Plane Sailing]

I'm thinking about soulknives, and I came across a situation that I'm not sure about the answer for:

If the he has used shape mindblade to create two (slightly weaker) shortswords for two weapon fighting, do they get a psychic strike each, or is does the first one to land get the psychic strike?

Secondly, if a 9th level soulknife does Bladewind, does he get the psychic strike on all the attacks? What about deep impact or psionic weapon if used at that point in time?

Cheers

 

[Bacris]

Funny, I actually happen to have the soulknife SRD entry up right now... Let me see if I can figure this one out

The interesting part is that when the text mentions splitting the mind blade, it references them as "each mind blade". However, I would say that you would have to charge each individually with psychic strike. If you charged it first, then split it, and then used psychic strike, it would only be on the next attack, since the text specifies: "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)." Singular attack I'd say the same with Bladewind.

Deep Impact and Psionic Weapon are easier - they specify "next attack." Bladewind is a full attack, you make multiple attacks and multiple attack rolls, so it wouldnt necessarily be the "first", but only one of the bunch.

At least, that's how I read it

 

[Alzrius]

If the he has used shape mindblade to create two (slightly weaker) shortswords for two weapon fighting, do they get a psychic strike each, or is does the first one to land get the psychic strike?

From the FAQ:

Does the soulknife’s psychic strike ability (Expanded Psionics Handbook, page 28) apply separately to both mind blades if he has used shape mind blade to create two shortsword-sized mind blades?

Yes. Each blade is imbued separately with psychic energy (requiring two separate move actions).

If a soulknife with a psychically imbued mind blade uses shape mind blade to separate it into two mind blades, only one (the soulknife’s choice) would be so imbued. Similarly, if the soulknife turned his two mind blades back into one, that weapon would be imbued with psychic strike if either of the original weapons were.

 

[Bacris]

The FAQ is right? Mark your calendars, folks! j/k

 

[Plane Sailing]

Thanks for the input. I'm not yet convinced on the Bladewind, from the way it's worded though...