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archangel_arcanis_07 11-15-07, 10:42 AM	ok i was thinking about a lot of different aspects of D&D and had come across the force missile mage in an issue of dragon and combined my thoughts with the fact that the arcane archer was silly with its lack of spell casting progression. Thus i had an appifiny make a psionic PrC that would focus on a single ranged touch power to make it a good ranged combatant that isn't reliant on area effects. So i chose what i would say is the equivalent power to magic missile as psionics go, crystal shard, it is one of the greatest low level damage spells out there the only drawback is that it is low level, and thus vulnerable to globes of invulnerability, and that it requires a touch attack. How can we make this work is the question. I would like for the class abilities to work on enhancing crystal shard and would also like to keep progressing the ML abilities so that you don't have the silliness that is the arcane archer again. The continued ML progression is to allow you to have some utility powers and maybe even some area or multi target effects. thoughts on abilities: * some way of increasing the range beyond close. * able to use meta psi on it without expending focus. (too abusable ??) * way of handling globes of invulnerability, can't be 100% but at least a chance if BBEG has one cast on him. (ML check perhaps) * slight increase in damage for it (+1/die) * making cheaper to increase stamina of character (automatically augmented by 1/2 or full class level but not beyond ML) * ability to use it in antimagic/antipsi fields (this is intended to be your main weapon so i don't want it to be completely negated but should be weakened so that you don't function like nothing is happening.) edit: not all of these abilities would have to be in the class these are just thoughts on how to enhance the power, i don't want every shard to deal 700 damage costing 1 pp and ignoring your globe of inv while i'm standing in an antimagic field situation. as far as the classes numbers i was thinking med. BaB, good ref and will, d6 hd, probably 10 lvl prc (was considering 5 but 10 seems more apporpriate), 7 or 8 +1 ML out of the 10 (unlike magic we do like to play fair in psionics you can't get something for nothing) edit: i knew i forgot something when i was typing this up, Prerequisites. thoughts on prereq. would be bab 3, 2nd lvl powers, and knowing crystal shard. with these prereq. psion 6, wilder 4, and PW 5 with expanded kn. would be the entry methods for it. I think this works out well since the wilder gets the fewest powers known thus allowing them to spend all other powers known on more versitile/utility powers and use this as their main offence as intended. Thoughts, comments, concerns... sorry for the scatterbrained post but my thoughts were jumping around too much to keep a cohesive thought train. constructive criticism is more than welcome but please don't bother posting if you only want to say that you think it is stupid. also could someone point me to how to do the code box so that once we do get to properly laying this out i can make sure to get the formatting in a readable manner.
archangel_arcanis_07 11-15-07, 10:46 AM	reserved for the layout of the class once i start getting some responses. this spot is intended to house the most current version based off of our discussions so that you don't have to dig through the thread for it.