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GrassyGnoll
2012-10-06, 07:41 PM
I've picked one of my homebrew classes (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94353) off the shelf recently and realized there's a bit of ambiguous wording that makes a sentient being un-targettable.

Namely, the psicrystal which becomes an NPC wrench-in-the-cogs.


Psicrystal Synthesis: If an alienist had a psicrystal from a previous class it ceases to exist. The alienist reabsorbs her fragmented personality, but does not rejoin the two. No matter how depraved or insane an alienist becomes there is always a fragment of herself that retains her original Wisdom score. This fragment of the alienist can not contribute to any Will saves or Wisdom checks, but bestows the bonuses of a psicrystal belonging to a psion of the same character level as the alienist at all times. At first the alienist benefits from darkvision 40 ft. and the personality bonus of her crystal, but at levels 5 and 7 she gains the Alertness feat and Improved Evasion, respectively. This secondary personality may contact others independently of its host with its telepathic speech. The psicrystal is not only a voice of reason, but a perpetual schemer against its master's attempts to gain more aberrant knowledge.


Psicrystal Synthesis: If an alienist had a psicrystal from a previous class it ceases to exist as an autonomous entity. The alienist bodily reabsorbs her fragmented personality, but does not rejoin the mental schism. No matter how depraved or insane an alienist becomes there is always a fragment of herself that retains her original Wisdom score. This fragment of the alienist can not contribute to any Will saves or Wisdom checks, but bestows the bonuses of a psicrystal belonging to a psion of the same character level as the alienist at all times. At first the alienist benefits from darkvision 40 ft. and the personality bonus of her crystal, but at levels 5 and 7 she gains the Alertness feat and Improved Evasion, respectively. This secondary personality may contact others independently of its host with its telepathic speech. The psicrystal is not only a voice of reason, but a perpetual schemer against its master's attempts to gain more aberrant knowledge. The psicrystal remains a target-able Diminutive construct attached to the alienist's body. They are target-able apart by target 'Single' spells. If the alienist is denied their dexterity to AC so is the psicrystal. The two share a single Reflex save in area of effect spells. If the psicrystal is destroyed before level 10, the alienist loses the benefits of Psicrystal Synthesis and regrows a new crystal agonizingly over the course of a month.

And I forgot to link through to Table 6-10 (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/campaigns/sanity.htm#typesOfInsanity) for the Insane Certainty (Ex) ability.

Please evaluate and critique the conversion class. The capstones were added after the thread locked/died.