D&D 4E You know what we didn't get in 4e? A Soulknife class.

[jadrax]

That's why I said I hoped it would appear as a Theme. As a theme, it's about right-- it's a couple of feats, that just about any character ought to be able to have, that defines a key part of how your character does what he or she does.

Seems a pretty solid Theme idea to me, you can see how you could build it with feats and it looks the kind of thing you could want with any class. It would be nice if you could somehow flavour the theme* so you could take blades of fire for a pyromancer, blades of Shadow for nightblade or blades of psi-energy for your Gith knife thrower.



*I almost typed theme the theme, but that way lies madness!

 

[Klaus]

It's not necessarily a psionic thing, either. Maybe it's all the X-Men comics I've been reading lately, but I am suddenly struck by Soulknife being a thing that should exist. (There are at least three Soulknives and one Aegis in the X-Men.)

I think it would make a pretty neat theme. Whatever class you are, you just have a weapon. Especially appropriate for Assassins and Swordmages. Figure there's two more feats in a Theme, one would be throw mind blade and the other would be mind arrow.

Win.

You mean *another* soulknife besides the Hexblade? You have a summoned energy weapon, ranged attack capabilities and utility powers that let you do superhuman stuff.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

I agree that it would make a cool theme (who knows, there's still a year of Dragon that it might pop up in for 4e.)

If not, I think it's quite likely they'll do a psionics book at some point for 5e, so it might well be in there.