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Bullet06320
2015-09-25, 02:38 AM
while moving things over from the WOTC boards, I found this little interesting thing
http://community.wizards.com/comment/50133776#comment-50133776
now reposted here
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?445200-Odd-optimization-project-minimizing-caster-levels


Lost Empires of Faerun web enhancement has Monastic Servant of Auppenser.http://candlekeep.com/library/articles/leof_msoa.htm
http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20050216a

So that lets almost all psionic powers be turned into cleric divine spells.
The exception being you : "Can never have cast a spell or used a magic or psionic item to dominate or control the mind of another being."
Effectively you trade a small group of enchantment spells for psionics.
Result - psionics follows the cleric/divine pattern on post #1 above, and are now effected by post #2.

Psionic Discipline (Sp): The monastic servant chooses one of the six disciplines available to the psion class. The powers from that discipline are now on the monastic servant's cleric spell list meaning that the monastic servant can prepare and cast powers from that discipline as if they were divine spells of the same level.These powers detect as both divine and psionics although they are divinely powered. A monastic servant does not expend power points when casting these spells and cannot augment them by expending power points. If a monastic servant is or becomes a psion, she must choose the same discipline.

Sublime Transference (Ex): At 1st level, a monastic servant's class levels stack with any of her psionic class levels for purposes of determining caster level dependent variables of a manifested power (such as range, duration, etc.) and for purposes of meeting feat requirements. Additionally, a monastic servant with a psionic item creation feat can make psionic items using any psionic powers she knows (either from a psionic class or from psionic powers that she can prepare as divine spells). A monastic servant without any psionic class levels uses her monastic servant class level as her manifestor level when crafting psionic items.

I'm curious as to how you resolve what the underlining above does. The MSoA is not manifesting a psionic power, nor expending power points,
rather it's as a divine spell in one location and as ifa divine spell in the other location.

editors note: while technically 3rd party source by a WOTC author posted on Candle Keep, it is an interesting class and offers interesting options should you decide to use this
I'm curious to what others think of this?
I haven't had much time yet to delve into it, but I'm thinking big potential