Best Powers for Psionic Tattoos

[Lightweaver]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of designing a character who's going to be a psionic tattoo specialist, with an updated version of Psionic Tattoo Mastery and the Pattern Master prestige class. I'm playing a non-CStP Erudite so that I can have access to any powers I might need, even on restricted discipline lists (with some slight houseruling to fix the Erudite class's problems).

I was wondering if anyone might have any suggestions on what powers would be best for this kind of character, both for himself and to hand out to the rest of the party. This character will be primarily support; he'll give the party members general purpose tattoos, hand out specialized ones based on the occasion, and recharge the party's tattoos. When necessary, he'll attack with crawling tattoos, which my DM has ruled can benefit from Psionic Tattoo Mastery.

Do you guys have any suggestions as to which powers would be most useful for either the support or crawling tattoos?

Thank you very much for your help!

[druid zook]

My first suggestion is expansion, because it can work on any creature type, and it can be augmented. Since it is a personal power, it will cost 50gp x ML. Thus, 400gp gets a tattoo that the party melee tank can use to grow huge for 80 minutes.

[sleepyphoenixx]

Steadfast Perception, Specified Energy Adaption, Forced Dream (MoE), Schism, Hustle, Dimension Hop, Touchsight, Anticipatory Strike would be my everyday choices.

The perception powers should speak for themselves, Energy Adaption is useful (especially augmented), Forced Dream is just brokenly good and the rest screw with the action economy and are thus awesome pretty much by default.

For more situational powers you're better off getting Soul Crystal (MoI) as a power known.

[Lightweaver]

Thank you both for your suggestions, they look great!


My first suggestion is expansion, because it can work on any creature type, and it can be augmented. Since it is a personal power, it will cost 50gp x ML. Thus, 400gp gets a tattoo that the party melee tank can use to grow huge for 80 minutes.

Expand does indeed look very useful; it also seems to be on the Psychic Warrior power list and not on the Psion/Wilder list, so it wouldn't be accessible to my Erudite under normal circumstances. Do you know of any way I could get a hold of it without burning a feat? I'll be spending a lot of feats on crafting cost reducers, so I'm a bit feat-starved.


Steadfast Perception, Specified Energy Adaption, Forced Dream (MoE), Schism, Hustle, Dimension Hop, Touchsight, Anticipatory Strike would be my everyday choices.

The perception powers should speak for themselves, Energy Adaption is useful (especially augmented), Forced Dream is just brokenly good and the rest screw with the action economy and are thus awesome pretty much by default.

For more situational powers you're better off getting Soul Crystal (MoI) as a power known.

Those all look great! Same as above on Steadfast Perception and Dimension Hop; those both aren't on the Psion/Wilder list, so I might not be able to spring for them. Also, though Soul Crystal looks like an awesome power, I probably won't be using it, since it would invalidate the point of the build :smalltongue:

[druid zook]

Thank you both for your suggestions, they look great!



Expand does indeed look very useful; it also seems to be on the Psychic Warrior power list and not on the Psion/Wilder list, so it wouldn't be accessible to my Erudite under normal circumstances. Do you know of any way I could get a hold of it without burning a feat? I'll be spending a lot of feats on crafting cost reducers, so I'm a bit feat-starved.:

It depends on what level you are. If you can learn 9th level powers, learn Psychic Chirurgery, then find someone who knows the power, learn it, and transfer it to you. If your DM objects, you'll also need to learn and manifest Fusion, then fuse with a psychic warrior and transfer the power. Another way is to hire a high-level Telepath to manifest Metaconcert with you and the psychic warrior, then metaconcert entity manifests psychic chirurgery to transfer expansion and any other powers to you.

Where there is a will, there is a way.