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sir_argenon 02-24-08, 02:09 PM

The Sublime Mind "Using either my mind or my blade makes me a deadly weapon, but when joined together ... I am invincible" - Garronath, Kalashtari Sublime Mind Becoming a Sublime Mind Most Sublime Minds are multiclass warblades psychic warriors/psions. A large number are also Swordsages with a psionic Class, but it would be very rare to see a crusader take levels of this PrC. Entry Requirements: Base Attack Bonus: +3 Martial Maneuvers: Must Know At Least One Diamond Mind Strike and One Diamond Mind Stance. Manifesting: Must be able to manifest 2nd level Powers Feats: Speed of Thought and either Instant Clarity or Psychic Renewal Skills: Concentration 8, Knowledge (Psionics) 4, Knowledge (History) 2. Hit Die: d8. Level BAB Fort Will Ref ML Man Kn Man Ready Stance Ability 1 +1 +2 +2 0 - 1 0 0 Enhanced Speed of Thought (+10 Speed) 2 +2 +3 +3 0 +1 ML 0 0 0 Psionic Weapon 3 +3 +3 +3 +1 +1 ML 1 1 0 Power of Clarity (1/day) 4 +4 +4 +4 +1 +1 ML 0 0 0 Enhanced Speed of Thought (+20 Speed) 5 +5 +4 +4 +1 - 1 0 1 Diamond Endowment +1 6 +6 +5 +5 +2 +1 ML 0 1 0 - 7 +7 +5 +5 +2 +1 ML 1 0 0 Power of Clarity (2/day) 8 +8 +6 +6 +2 +1 ML 0 0 0 Diamond Endowment +2 9 +9 +6 +6 +3 +1 ML 1 1 1 Enhanced Speed of Thought (+30 Speed) 10 +10 +7 +7 +3 +1 ML 0 0 0 Sublime Augmentation Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level.) The Diamond Saint’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Autohypnosis (Wis), Balance (Dex), Climb (Str), Concentration (Con), Diplomacy (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Knowledge (Psionics) (Int), Martial Lore (Int), Psicraft (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Swim (Str), and Tumble (Dex). Class Features All the following are class features of the Sublime Mind prestige class. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: The Sublime Mind gains no proficiency with any weapon or armor. Powers Known: At every level, except 1st, and 5th level, a Sublime Mind gains additional power points per day and access to new powers as if he had also gained a level in whatever manifesting class he belonged to before he added the prestige class. He does not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained (bonus feats, metapsionic or item creation feats, and so on). This essentially means that he adds the level of Sublime Mind to the level of whatever manifesting class the character has, then determines power points per day, powers known, and manifester level accordingly. If a character had more than one manifesting class before he became a Sublime Mind, he must decide to which class he adds the new level of Sublime Mind for the purpose of determining power points per day, powers known, and manifester level. Maneuvers: At each odd level, you gain a new maneuver from the Sublime Mind or Iron Heart disciplines. You must meet a maneuver’s prerequisite to learn it. Each Sublime Mind level adds to your Initiator level to determine your total Initiator level and your highest level maneuvers known. Stances Known: At 5th and 9th levels, you gain a new stance from the Diamond Mind discipline. You must meet a stance’s prerequisite to learn it. Psionic Weapon (SU): At 1st level,a Diamond Mind gains the feat Psionic Weapon. If you already have Psionic Weapon, then you gain access to the feat Greater Psionic Weapon. If you already have both, then you may pick any Psionic feat or any feat listed in the Tome of Battle feats section (starting pg. 28) that you meet the prerequisites for. Enhanced Speed of Thought (EX):At 2nd, 5th and 9th levels, when psionically focused, You gain an additional +10 to your Speed. These bonuses stack with the bonus from the speed of Thought feat. Power of Clarity (PS):At 3rd level you can gain a power point recovery equal to your levels in Sublime Mind. To get this recovery, you must expend your psionic focus, and then as a Swift Action make a successful Concentration check of DC 20 + 1 for every Diamond Saint Level that you have attained. For example, a 5th level Sublime Mind must make a DC 25, 6th level: DC 26, 7th level: DC 27 and so on. If you fail the check, you expend your focus with no benefit, and the daily use of this ability is wasted. You gain one additional use of this ability per day at 7th level. Diamond Endowment : (EX) The supreme concentration and force of Will a Sublime Mind achieves means his powers are incredibly hard to resist. At 4th level if you manifest a power while you are in a Diamond Mind Stance, that power is manifested with a +1 to the save DC. This bonus increases to +2 at level 8. This ability stacks with the Psionic and Greater Psionic Endowment feats. You may use this ability once per encounter at level 5, and twice per encounter at level 8. Sublime Augmentation (SU): When you reach your tenth level in this class, your psionic mind and your extraordinary combat prowess mesh together to allow you to react while others stand in awe at your speed. Once per encounter, while you are psionically focused, you can choose any martial maneuver that you have readied and then psionically augment it to initiate it as a Swift Action. To do this, you must expend your focus, and spend 5 power points, plus additional power points equal to that maneuver’s level as if it was a power of the same level. For example, the Iron Heart maneuver “Mithral Tornado” is a 4th level maneuver. It is treated as if was a power of the same level which would cost 7 power points to manifest. So to augment it, you must spend 5 + 7 = 12 power points total. This ability does not allow any of the augmented maneuvers to be augmented or boosted any further by expenditure of more power points, overchanneling, wild surge, metapsionic feat or any other type of power or feat combinations. When this ability is used on any maneuver it is expended and recovered as normal. NOTES: This prc is an offshoot of the one discussed on this thread (http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=828188&page=2) on the psionics board, started by ElecTech. I updated it, using ideas from some of those and tried to make it as balanced as i could. Any questions, comments, concerns etc would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!