Help me with an Evil Character!!!

[Rigor_Mortis]

Soulknife? Nooo.

Plain and simple, Soulknife sucks. It sucks hard. Its an entire class whose class feature is "has a magic weapon".

If you like the idea of being able to walk around "unarmed" and call up a weapon from nowhere, use Psychic Warrior 8 and take the Soulbound Weapon ACF. It's the exact same bonus scaling as a mindblade, for free, more flexible, and you get full PsyWar power progression.

I see your point, but then you get into having to spend valuable PP on manifesting the weapon and then have to worry about duration. Meh.
Maybe I'll only take 1 or 2 levels in SoulKnife and the rest in PsiWarrior.


@Randel
The chameleon Race idea is a pretty good one. I could really pull off some shenanigans with the party using those ideas.

[The Antigamer]

If the object is to confuse your enemies(and other PCs), try the chameleon PrC, or this homebrewed chameleon base class.

[The Glyphstone]

I see your point, but then you get into having to spend valuable PP on manifesting the weapon and then have to worry about duration. Meh.
Maybe I'll only take 1 or 2 levels in SoulKnife and the rest in PsiWarrior.


@Randel
The chameleon Race idea is a pretty good one. I could really pull off some shenanigans with the party using those ideas.

Call Weaponry is a 1-PP power though. Just going from PsyWar6 to PsyWar8 nets you 4+Wis Mod PP, improves your soulbound weapon to a free +2, +2 BAB, access to 2 3rd-level powers, and gives you a bonus feat - comparatively, spending those two levels of Soulknife gets you a nonmagical weapon you can conjure at will and lets you throw it. It'll be a very, very rare circumstance where you need your weapon for more than 4 stretches of 8 minutes at a time, and it's cheap to get even after that. Not to mention that you're effectively saving 16+ PP by having that free +2 bonus instead of needing to augment it to a +2.

Really, the only viable way to use a Soulknife is a Soulbow ranged build, which can actually be halfway decent. Otherwise, avoid it at all costs.

[Snake-Aes]

I see your point, but then you get into having to spend valuable PP on manifesting the weapon and then have to worry about duration. Meh.
Maybe I'll only take 1 or 2 levels in SoulKnife and the rest in PsiWarrior.


@Randel
The chameleon Race idea is a pretty good one. I could really pull off some shenanigans with the party using those ideas.

Soulbound Weapon ACF lets you summon those weapons for a single power point. Two more levels of psyWarrior is 2 more minutes of the weapon. The extra pp from those levels is also a good 3 or 4 more uses of the power. There's just no mechanical advantage in soulknife. As far as psionics go they're replaced in every possible sense by all other classes.

[Rigor_Mortis]

Well now...I hadn't looked at it that way. :/
Interesting. Okay.
I guess Soulknife is on the outs then.

I'll look up the prereqs for the Chamleon PrC, although I know there was a PrC (the duelist?) that dealt with not wearing armor and instead adding your int mod to your AC instead, that I'm considering.

And someone here had a point, since I'm not spending gp on armor I can buy magic items that give me Spider Climb or Teleport or something along those lines.

I really appreciate all the help and advice guys, you've all been a great help so far!

[Snake-Aes]

Factoti do that. Duelists add int to damage when using a finesse weapon.

[The Glyphstone]

Factoti do that. Duelists add int to damage when using a finesse weapon.

You're thinking of Swashbucklers. The Duelist does add his Int to AC, maximum=Duelist class level, when unarmored.

[Rigor_Mortis]

Was the Duelist updated for 3.5?

The only one I saw still had ambidexterity listed as a prereq, and I know that was done away with in 3.5. (That, and I don't want a rapier)

[The Glyphstone]

It's in the 3.5 DMG, so yeah. It's really weak though, I'd avoid it (stick with pure PsyWar, solve your 'unarmored' problem with long-duration Inertial Armor and in-combat Defensive Precognition).

[Ponderthought]

If your thinking of a psychic warrior, you might want to dip into the elocater prc. It would probably work well with an evil character, both mechanics wise and for feel what with teleport-striking, flanking from bizarre angles and floating several inches off the ground at any given time like your out of the goddamn Exorcist.

[Rigor_Mortis]

Hrmm, I liked the Duelist for the +int to AC but that's the only reason I wanted it tbh. Good point.

However!
Holy Crap!

I just checked out the Chameleon PrC, It's AWESOME!
I mean, WOW. That would give me so much roleplaying opportunities it isn't funny. I could really screw with the rest of the party.

Especially if I went changeling or another doppleganger (are there many?) race and changed my appearance too like someone suggested.