That makes multiclassing (at least, so long as you don’t take more than four non-progressing levels) far less painful than it is for other manifesters. Instead, you just can learn a power of any level you have high enough manifester level to afford the power points for, which means any bonus to manifester level-like Practiced Manifester (the third and final quality material in Complete Psionic)-can allow you to learn higher-level powers. Two, the ardent has a unique, multiclassing-friendly system of powers known, since the ardent has no max power level known. And other mantles like conflict, elements, life, or physical power, are available to fill up the rest of your choices. The reason you’ll want ardent are two-fold: one, there’s a natural world mantle, and it’s just about the only reference to nature in official psionic material. An ardent takes on several mantles as he levels. an ardent with both good and evil mantles could specifically be interested in the interplay of good and evil, rather than necessarily espousing either alignment on a personal level). Unlike a cleric, an ardent gains several such mantles, and can even take opposing mantles (e.g. The ardent is a psionic philosopher to the cleric’s magic priest, and gains powers by tapping psionic “mantles,” which are fairly similar to a cleric’s domains. An ardent might be able to cobble together a PhD in rangeringįinally, if you want to frankenstein a build together out of official 3.5e parts, you’re almost-certainly going to be looking at ardent ( Complete Psionic again, and probably the only thing in it that I’ll say is, without reservation, quality material-well, almost without reservation, the magic mantle is a mess). Their Pathfinder soulknife is also improved over the 3.5e one, and has a soulbolt archetype-though, I should warn you, even with improvements it’s still not a great class unless you’re using one of the newer, higher-power archetypes like war soul, psychic armory, or living legend, which aren’t yet available on ( Psionics Augmented: Soulknives and Psionics Augmented: Living Legend or Psionics Augmented: Occult are the places to find those, if you are interested-disclaimer, though: I worked on some of the other content in Psionics Augmented: Occult, so I have a vested interest in that book). The marksman is pretty good, for example. Reaching farther, Dreamscarred Press’s Pathfinder material can be readily back-ported to 3.5e, and is often of higher quality. Backporting DSP Pathfinder material offers some options It’s probably one of the best things to come out of that book, and certainly one of the best things you can do with a soulknife, but those are both really low standards ( Complete Psionic is one of the worst official books for 3.5e, and soulknives are a really, really weak class). Soulbow: official psionic archery, but not so much stealth or nature loreĪ more official, but less ranger-y, approach would be the soulbolt prestige class from Complete Psionic. Simple, straight-forward third-party psionic rangerĭreamscarred Press is primarily a third-party publisher for Pathfinder these days, but they started in 3.5e, and they produced a psionic ranger for 3.5e.
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