Silentone98
2014-02-24, 11:19 PM
one of my players is trying out a thri-kreen soulknife.
while discussing it, we ran into a bit of confusion on the free draw(Lvl5)
Free Draw (Su)
At 5th level, a soulknife becomes able to materialize his mind blade as a free action instead of a move action. He can make only one attempt to materialize the mind blade per round, however.
and Multi-throw(Lvl17)
Multiple Throw (Ex)
At 17th level and higher, a soulknife can throw a number of mind blades per round equal to the number of melee attacks he could make.
as you cant throw something that isn't manifested- do you need to manifest these mind blades first? which would force you into making 1 each round before you could multi-throw it.
or do you simply throw them all as if you already had the mind blades? I.E. instantaneous manifest as the text would suggest- since you cant throw something that's not manifested.
If this ones the case, do we at this point chalk this up to something only possible during a multi-throw, or is the soulknife at this point capable of spawning 4 Mind Blades at once in each hand for regular purposes as well?
perhaps we are reading into this a bit much- but I would hate to tell him "No you can only spawn 1 mind blade at a time, even at lvl 17, as that is a function of multi-throw only and free draw clearly states your limitation" if he was legitimately entitled to it, this wouldn't be very cool.
and then,... maybe since soulknifes get little as it is, I should just houserule it as giving him that capability anyhow,... its level 17 after all and such a small thing.
thoughts?
while discussing it, we ran into a bit of confusion on the free draw(Lvl5)
Free Draw (Su)
At 5th level, a soulknife becomes able to materialize his mind blade as a free action instead of a move action. He can make only one attempt to materialize the mind blade per round, however.
and Multi-throw(Lvl17)
Multiple Throw (Ex)
At 17th level and higher, a soulknife can throw a number of mind blades per round equal to the number of melee attacks he could make.
as you cant throw something that isn't manifested- do you need to manifest these mind blades first? which would force you into making 1 each round before you could multi-throw it.
or do you simply throw them all as if you already had the mind blades? I.E. instantaneous manifest as the text would suggest- since you cant throw something that's not manifested.
If this ones the case, do we at this point chalk this up to something only possible during a multi-throw, or is the soulknife at this point capable of spawning 4 Mind Blades at once in each hand for regular purposes as well?
perhaps we are reading into this a bit much- but I would hate to tell him "No you can only spawn 1 mind blade at a time, even at lvl 17, as that is a function of multi-throw only and free draw clearly states your limitation" if he was legitimately entitled to it, this wouldn't be very cool.
and then,... maybe since soulknifes get little as it is, I should just houserule it as giving him that capability anyhow,... its level 17 after all and such a small thing.
thoughts?