mistformsquirrl
2013-11-23, 05:29 PM
So, I had a fairly silly idea floating around in my head - I kind of want to play an anime-esque ninja: you know the type - can jump 100ft straight up, teleport to dodge attacks, spits fire or throws explosive shuriken, has dangerous forbidden techniques to unleash on people when times are desperate, etc...
Needless to say, the standard Ninja class wasn't really cutting the mustard for this kind of character; and that's fine, I wasn't really expecting it to since it's rather outlandish stuff that I'm after. I considered Tome of Battle - but while a Swordsage can do a lot of what I'm after, there are other aspects I'm not sure they're up to. That and I've played a LOT of ToB characters over the years - it's great stuff, but I could use something a bit different frankly.
That brought me to the idea of using Psionics to sub-in for ninja techniques; and the more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
The one difficulty I'm having is deciding between a Wilder or a Psychic Warrior. Both have the same BAB, so that's a wash - the Psychic Warrior has more powers, but they're lower level and has fewer power points... the Wilder conversely has a heap of power points, and a rather nice array of Surge abilities to use to fill that "dangerous forbidden technique" niche... but only gets a few powers over their career, meaning my feats would I suspect mostly be spent expanding my power choices; whereas the Psychic Warrior could pick up some fun melee oriented stuff as well.]
Neither gets Stealth as a class skill, but that's honestly not a huge deal for this kind of thing, particularly since there's always the Slippery trait to make it a class skill regardless.
Now all that said, I have zero experience with either class quite frankly - or psionics for that matter - that's part of why I'm interested, so my initial observations may be... flawed; which is why I'm asking here - which of these two classes do you suppose would suit what I'm after better in the end? It doesn't have to be mindblowingly powerful mind you - just entertaining and at least somewhat useful outside of combat.
Needless to say, the standard Ninja class wasn't really cutting the mustard for this kind of character; and that's fine, I wasn't really expecting it to since it's rather outlandish stuff that I'm after. I considered Tome of Battle - but while a Swordsage can do a lot of what I'm after, there are other aspects I'm not sure they're up to. That and I've played a LOT of ToB characters over the years - it's great stuff, but I could use something a bit different frankly.
That brought me to the idea of using Psionics to sub-in for ninja techniques; and the more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
The one difficulty I'm having is deciding between a Wilder or a Psychic Warrior. Both have the same BAB, so that's a wash - the Psychic Warrior has more powers, but they're lower level and has fewer power points... the Wilder conversely has a heap of power points, and a rather nice array of Surge abilities to use to fill that "dangerous forbidden technique" niche... but only gets a few powers over their career, meaning my feats would I suspect mostly be spent expanding my power choices; whereas the Psychic Warrior could pick up some fun melee oriented stuff as well.]
Neither gets Stealth as a class skill, but that's honestly not a huge deal for this kind of thing, particularly since there's always the Slippery trait to make it a class skill regardless.
Now all that said, I have zero experience with either class quite frankly - or psionics for that matter - that's part of why I'm interested, so my initial observations may be... flawed; which is why I'm asking here - which of these two classes do you suppose would suit what I'm after better in the end? It doesn't have to be mindblowingly powerful mind you - just entertaining and at least somewhat useful outside of combat.