Soulknife

Bladestorm Soulknife

This soulknife uses swarms of psychic blades to strike with overwhelming force. Filling a role somewhere between an assassin and a battlemage, these warriors are at their best when they can take time before a fight to prepare for their signature bladestorm attacks.

• d10 Hit Die (10 + Con HP at 1st level, 6 + Con HP thereafter)

• 4 + Int skill points (x4 at 1st level)

• Class Skills: Autohypnosis(Wis), Balance(Dex), Climb(Str), Concentration(Con), Craft(Int), Hide(Dex), Jump(Str), Knowledge(Psionics)(Int), Listen(Wis), Move Silently(Dex), Profession(Wis), Spot(Wis), Tumble(Dex)

• Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Proficient with all simple weapons, with their own mind blades, and with light armor and shields (except tower shields).

Level	BAB	Fort	Ref	Will	Features	Power Points per Day	Psychic Scabbard
1	0	0	2	2	Power Aptitude, Mind Blade, Weapon Focus (Mind Blade), Mind Blade Finesse	1	-
2	1	0	3	3	+1 Mind Blade, Throw Mind Blade	2	-
3	2	1	3	3	Psychic Strike +1d8	3	-
4	3	1	4	4	+2 Mind Blade	4	-
5	3	1	4	4	Psychcic Scabbard, Psychic Strike +2d8	5	1
6	4	2	5	5	Charged Draw, Shape Mind Blade, +3 Mind Blade	7	1
7	5	2	5	5	Psychic Strike +3d8	9	1
8	6/1	2	6	6	+4 Mind Blade	11	2
9	6/1	3	6	6	Bladestorm, Greater Weapon Focus (Mind Blade), Psychic Strike +4d8	13	2
10	7/2	3	7	7	+5 Mind Blade	15	2
11	8/3	3	7	7	Psychic Strike +5d8	19	3
12	9/4	4	8	8	Knife to the Soul, +6 Mind Blade	23	3
13	9/4	4	8	8	Psychic Strike +6d8	27	3
14	10/5	4	9	9	+7 Mind Blade	31	4
15	11/6/1	5	9	9	Swift Draw, Psychic Strike +7d8	35	4
16	12/7/2	5	10	10	+8 Mind Blade	43	4
17	12/7/2	5	10	10	Psychic Strike +8d8	51	5
18	13/8/3	6	11	11	Greater Bladestorm, +9 Mind Blade	59	5
19	14/9/4	6	11	11	Psychic Strike +9d8	67	5
20	15/10/5	6	12	12	+10 Mind Blade	75	6

Class Features

Power Points per Day

The soulknife has a base daily allotment of power points given on the table above. In addition, he receives bonus power points per day if he has a high Wisdom score. His race may also provide bonus power points per day, as may certain feats and items.

Power Aptitude

The soulknife does not learn any powers, but levels of soulknife still count as manifester levels. When taking levels in a prestige class that allows a character to advance his manifesting ability as though taking another level in an existing manifesting class, the character may select soulknife to advance the enhancement bonus on his mind blade as if another level of soulknife was taken.

Additionally, when taking the Expanded Knowledge feat, the soulknife may use one-third of his soulknife level, rounded down, as the highest level of power he may learn. For example, a 6th level soulknife taking Expanded Knowledge would be able to learn a power up to 2nd level.

Mind Blade (Su)

As a move action, a soulknife can create a semisolid blade made of pure psychic energy distilled from his own mind. Such blades are identical in all ways (except visually) to short swords of a size appropriate for its wielder. For instance, a Medium soulknife can create Medium mind blades that he can wield as light weapons, and the blades deal 1d6 points of damage (crit 19-20/x2). The wielder of a mind blade gains the usual benefits to his attack roll and damage roll from a high strength bonus. Mind blades are treated as magical weapons for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction.

The moment the soulknife stops holding one of his mind blades, it vanishes. Mind blades thus cannot be dropped, stored, or given to another creature, even another creature capable of generating mind blades. A soulknife can only hold one mind blade in each hand.

A soulknife may select Mind Blade as a weapon for the purpose of feats that require a specific weapon choice, such as Weapon Focus.

At 2nd level, and every two levels thereafter, the mind blade gains a cumulative +1 enhancement bonus on attack rols and damage rolls.

Even in places where psionic effects do not normally function (such as inside of a null psionics field), a soulknife can attempt to sustain his mind blades by making a DC 20 Will save. On a successful save, the soulknife maintains his mind blades and does not need to make another check for a number of rounds equal to his class level. On an unsuccessful save, all mind blades within the nonpsionic area vanish. If the soulknife was in the area during the failed save, he loses the ability to manifest mind blades until the beginning of his next turn.

Weapon Focus (Mind Blade)

A soulknife gains Weapon Focus (mind blade) as a bonus feat, even if he does not meet the prerequisites.

Mind Blade Finesse (Ex)

A soulknife may apply his Dexterity bonus instead of his Strength bonus to his attack rolls with a light mind blade as if he had the Weapon Finesse feat. The soulknife is considered to have the Weapon Finesse feat for the purposes of meeting prerequisites. Anything that uses this feature as a substitute for Weapon Finesse does not apply any bonus to weapons that are not mind blades.

Throw Mind Blade (Su)

At 2nd level, the soulknife gains the ability to maintain his mind blades long enough to throw them. Mind blades are thrown with a range increment of 30 feet. A mind blade that is not thrown dissipates normally.

Whether or not the attack hits, a thrown mind blade then immediately dissipates. All of a soulknife's special abilities may be used in conjunction with a thrown mind blade.

Psychic Strike (Su)

As a move action, a soulknife of 3rd level or higher can imbue a single mind blade with destructive psychic energy. This effect deals an extra 1d8 points of damage to the next living, nonmindless target he successfully hits with the charged mind blade. Creatures immune to mind-affecting effects are immune to psychic strike damage.

A mind blade deals this extra damage only once when this ability is called upon, but a soulknife may imbue his mind blade with energy again by taking another move action to do so. If the blade strikes an opponent who is immune to psychic strike, the ability is not expended.

Once a soulknife has prepared a mind blade for a psychic strike, it holds the energy until it is used or until it dissipates (such as by being broken or dropped). A soulknife may have multiple mind blades charged with psychic strike at once.

At every two levels beyond 3rd, the extra damage from a soulknife's psychic strike increases by 1d8.

Psychcic Scabbard (Su)

At 5th level, the soulknife may store a mind blade as a free action without the blade vanishing or losing psychic strike energy. Stored mind blades hover gently by the soulknife's side or behind the soulknife's back and may be drawn as a free action. Blades stored this way cannot be grabbed by others, but they can be sundered.

A soulknife may store a number of blades equal to his wisdom modifier plus the value given on the table above.

Charged Draw (Su)

Starting at 6th level, a soulknife may charge psychic strike on a mind blade as a free action when he first materializes it.

Shape Mind Blade (Su)

At 6th level, a soulknife gains the ability to create new types of mind blades. When creating a mind blade, the soulknife may choose to replicate a longsword or a bastard sword instead of a shortsword.

Additionally, he may choose to forego some of a mind blade's enhancement bonus to create it with any of the special abilities given on the table below. The blade's enhancement bonus decreases by an amount equal to the enhancement bonus value of the ability. All mind blades must be formed with at least a +1 enhancement bonus.

Weapon Special Ability	Enhacement Bonus Value
Defending	+1
Keen	+1
Mighty Cleaving	+1
Psychokinetic	+1
Sundering	+1
Vicious	+1
Collision	+2
Mindcrusher	+2
Psychokinetic Burst	+2
Suppression	+2
Wounding	+2
Bodyfeeder	+3
Mindfeeder	+3
Soulbreaker	+3
Vorpal	+5

Bladestorm (Su)

At 9th level, a soulknife may telekinetically hurl many mind blades at once. As a full round action, the soulknife can make one attack at his highest base attack bonus against a number of targets within 30 feet that does not exceed his current number of manifested mind blades. Each attack is made with a different blade, and the soulknife may freely choose which targets to attack with which blades. If any target is within melee range, the soulknife may choose to resolve the attack against that target as a melee attack, otherwise the attack is considered a ranged attack.

Psychic strike and other effects that modify the soulknife's mind blades apply to these attacks. After this attack, all thrown mind blades disappear as normal.

Greater Weapon Focus (Mind Blade) (Ex)

A soulknife gains Greater Weapon Focus (mind blade) as a bonus feat at 9th level, even if he does not meet the prerequisites.

Knife to the Soul (Su)

Beginning at 12th level, when a soulknife charges a psychcic strike, he can choose to substitute Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma damage (his choice) for extra dice of damage. For every two dice of damaage he gives up, he deals 1 point of damage to the ability score he chooses. A soulknife can combine extra dice of damage and ability damage in any combination.

The soulknife decides which ability score his psychcic strike damages and the division of ability damage and extra dice of damage when he imbues the mind blade with psychic strike energy.

Swift Draw

At 15th level, the soulknife may materialize a mind blade as a swift action.

Greater Bladestorm

At 18th level, the soulknife's bladestorm ability improves. When using bladestorm, the soulknife may direct any number of blades to attack one additional target before vanishing. The soulknife must spend 3 power points for each blade directed this way. A target that has already been attacked by a different blade cannot be the new target of any other blade, and all targets must be within 30 feet of the soulknife.