3.5 psionics

[azura1300]

im currently playing a wilder so im very limited in power choice. i was looking through posts and builds and found a power that allows a character to give a power it knows to another character (think it costs exp to do this).
my problem is i cant remember the name of the power or what book its in.
does anyone know what its called or where i can find it?

[Grod_The_Giant]

Psychic Chirurgery (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/psychicChirurgery.htm)?

[Flickerdart]

Psychic Chirurgery (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/psychicChirurgery.htm)- a 9th level power. You can also use Psychic Reformation (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/psychicReformation.htm) to shuffle the powers you already know.

The Educated Wilder (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20070214a) variant allows you to learn a couple more powers than usual by trading Volatile Mind for four instances of Expanded Knowledge.

[azura1300]

thanks guys that's a massive help

[Psyren]

You can rely on items for some powers too - especially the situational ones that don't need augmenting. This will free your mind for more useful abilities. For example, Adapt Body (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/adaptBody.htm) can be a lifesaver when you need it, but it's purely a waste of space when you don't - so get it in a stone or dorje rather than spending one of your precious 11 (16 with Educated) on it.

With a Wilder, every power choice should be accompanied with "do I see myself using this every day?" and "How does this benefit from my Wild Surge?"

Also, consider PrC'ing out of Wilder if something interesting catches your eye; you'll rarely want to surge for more than +3, so a PrC that gives you more options after you hit that point can be very worthwhile. Soul Manifester (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20060217a) is one of my favorite Wilder PrCs because the pile of Incarnate soulmelds you get can cover ground on a lot of powers. (Also, you get a lot of mileage out of your Cha once you combine it with the Psion's Eyes soulmeld.)

[azura1300]

so far ive got crystal shard and vigor. gonna get psicrystal and share the pain asap. our DM is trying to throw in fights where we should be outnumbered or overpowered to create challenges. but the other players have put almost no work into designing their characters so im having to do everything i can just to keep us alive. im not planning on abusing rules too much but this is the first time the DM is "taking off the kids gloves" as he put it. so far we have managed to kill 2 creatures and ive done almost all the damage.

[Kuulvheysoon]

One option that I've been meaning to try as soon as I can play in a psionics-okay campaign is a Wilder/Diamond Dragon (DrM), house-ruled to work off of Charisma rather than Intelligence.

[Psyren]

One option that I've been meaning to try as soon as I can play in a psionics-okay campaign is a Wilder/Diamond Dragon (DrM), house-ruled to work off of Charisma rather than Intelligence.

Diamond Dragon is fun for a gish, and the spammable breath weapon is neat as well. Even if your DM doesn't switch the manifesting stat, you can get by with the claws, tail and wings (plus the typeless stat boosts.)

[Kuulvheysoon]

Diamond Dragon is fun for a gish, and the spammable breath weapon is neat as well. Even if your DM doesn't switch the manifesting stat, you can get by with the claws, tail and wings (plus the typeless stat boosts.)

Come on - if you play a DRAGON, who wants to ignore the breath weapon (especially sonic)?:smalltongue:

My main problem is that I'm usually the DM, and my one friend who occasionally DMs is not a fan of psionics.

[Phelix-Mu]

Diamond Dragon is indeed a lot of fun. A player in a long-running campaign I ran took some level of this once he hit epic and topped off his cleric prestige classes and had full cleric casting. He was a spellscale, so the flavor was extremely appropriate, and as a VoP character, psionics had lots of appeal, and that class in particular was a good boost to his melee potential in prolonged combat (which happened not infrequently in that campaign).

Wilder can segue way into a bunch of different PrC, as long as you don't mind losing access to the wilder class features (which are largely as Psyren said, just more wild surge gravy and sundry others). Were there psionic PrC published with the rather wonky WotC 3e Dark Sun stuff? Dark Sun typically had a lot of psionic coolness going on, and I know that they filed the serial numbers off a lot of it to put into Expanded Psionics Handbook, but I can't remember if there were any PrC worth looking at.

[Hida Reju]

Feats - Expanded Knowledge: Astral Construct and Boost Construct

As a Wilder it is so worth it to surge and get a more powerful construct than you lvl normally allows and the best part is its a swiss army summon. It can be configured with nearly any ability you need.

Flight, Grapple, Extra HP, DR, Energy resistance/damage, Trample, Tripping, different base damage types. Also POUNCE!!!!!!!!!!!

Constructor PrC is awesome if you can pay the price to get it to have even cooler Astral Constructs.