Sunday, July 12, 2009

New feats and multiclass rules for your psion

(Edit: Updated multiclass feats to work with all psionic classes)

Unlike the monk preview, the psion class has been published with a small selection of feats for all tiers. Although the higher level ones are excellent, at heroic there isn't really much choice: you have Discipline Adept, which is decent enough, but I find Precise Mind unplayable before you have 6 power points, and just mediocre once you do. As for Exchange Power, you can only activate it in parties where several PCs have power points, which is an extremely unlikely scenario right now.

With this in mind (heh), I have made up several feats to expand your options when building psions, emphasizing their mechanical and flavor themes. In addition, I have adapted the multiclass feat rules, implementing new feats that work with a psion's augmentable at-wills and lack of encounter powers. I hope you enjoy them!

Heroic Tier feats

Inspiring domination.
Requirement: Psion
Benefit: When an enemy you dominate makes an attack, or when an enemy makes an attack granted by one of your psion powers, that enemy gains a +2 bonus to the attack roll

Mental rebuke
Requirement: Psion
Benefit: When an enemy makes an attack against your will defense, that enemy gains a -1 penalty to all its defenses until the end of its next turn.

Phobic assault
Requisites: Psion, Cha 15.
Benefit: When you attack with a ranged psychic power and you have combat advantage, you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls.

Psychic Surge
Benefit: When you hit a target that has psychic resistance with a psychic power, your psychic powers deal 5 extra psychic damage against that target until the end of your next turn.

Inertial Shield
Requirement: Any psychic class, Wis 13
Benefit: While you have a hand free, you gain a +1 shield bonus to AC and Reflex. You are considered to be using a shield as long as you benefit from this bonus.

Improved Inertial Shield
Requirement: Any psychic class, Wis 15, Inertial Shield
Benefit: While you have a hand free, you gain a +2 shield bonus to AC and Reflex. You are considered to be using a shield as long as you benefit from this bonus.

Paragon Tier feats

Master of puppets
Requirement: Psion, 11th level
Benefit: When you daze or stun a creature with a psionic effect, you can slide that creature 1 square at the beginning of each of its turns until the condition ends, as a free action.

Epic Tier feats

Greater domination
Requirement: Psion, 21st level
Benefit: Enemies dominated by you can take an additional movement action during their turns. You choose that action.

Multiclass feats

Psionic Initiate [Multiclass Psion]
Prerequisite: Int 13
Benefit: You gain training in the Arcana skill.
Choose a 1st-level psion at-will power. You can use that power once per encounter. That power loses its augmentations.
In addition, you can wield psion implements.

Novice Psionic power
Prerequisite: Any psionic multiclass feat, 4th level
Benefit: You can swap one encounter power you know to gain one psionic at-will power of the same level or lower from the class you multiclassed into. You can use that power once per encounter. In addition, you gain power points depending on the level of the swapped power:

Level 1 to level 10 - 2 PPs
Level 11 to level 20 - 4 PPs
Level 21 to level 30 - 6 PPs

Novice Non-Psionic power
Prerequisite: Any psionic class, Psionic Augmentation class feature, any non-psionic multiclass feat, 4th level.
Benefit: You can swap one psion at-will power that you know and has augmentations for one encounter power of the same level or lower from a class you multiclassed into. In addition, you lose power points depending on the level of the power you swapped out:

Level 1 to level 10- 2 PPs
Level 11 to level 20 - 4 PPs
Level 21 to level 30 - 6 PPs

2 comments:

  1. I like these powers a lot. Although my personal favorite is Mental Rebuke, I find the Inertial Shield ones and the Multiclass ones specially inspired.

    In fact, I think the way Wizards will solve the problem of grating Psion's powers and power points through multiclassing will be very similar.

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  2. I'd like two things.

    1.) A Voidsoul Genasi feat (kind of like Elemental Empowerment, but working with psychic damage... and perhaps not being so laughably overpowered? Though if you're focusing Str instead of Cha, half your psionic powers are suddenly crap anyway so...)

    2.) Better names for those power swap feats. Ewww man.

    Of course, the real issue is that psionic classes need to be able to multiclass to other psionic classes, even if no one else in the world can. Trade a 13th level at will psion power for a 13th level at will ardent power. And be able to augment them.

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